Patent ID: 8509929

Claim:
A method for allowing a user of a fantasy sports contest application to maintain a fantasy sports team roster using a user input device in communication with processing circuitry, the method comprising: allowing the user to enter a user input from the user input device to create a fantasy sports team roster; automatically evaluating one or more athletes on the fantasy sports team roster based on one or more single game performance criteria and one or more long term game performance criteria using the processing circuitry, wherein the one or more long term game performance criteria are at least partially based on the one or more single game performance criteria; automatically evaluating one or more athletes not on the fantasy sports team roster based on the one or more single game performance criteria and the one or more long term game performance criteria using the processing circuitry; automatically displaying an alert to the user, the alert having at least one recommended change to be made to the fantasy sports team roster based on the evaluations using the processing circuitry and a plurality of selectable elements related to the at least one recommended change, wherein the alert is automatically displayed at one or more preset times before a start of a round of a fantasy sports contest, and wherein the at least one recommended change includes an exchange of at least one athlete on the fantasy sports team roster for at least one athlete not on the fantasy sports team roster; receiving from the user using the user input device a selection of one of the plurality of selectable elements related to the at least one recommended change; and in response to receiving the selection, making the at least one recommended change to the fantasy sports team roster using the processing circuitry.