- Number
- 10561951
- Published
- 2020-02-18
- Filed
- 2015-11-18
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Sloan; James N., Fishel; David M., Polikoff; Michael A., Kinnersley; Jonathan G., Kelley; James R., Becquey; Pierre Y., Ravitz; Nathan M.
- CPC
- A63F13/85; A63F13/798; A63F13/65; A63F13/828; A63F13/46; A63F13/79; A63F13/44; A63F13/00
- Verdict
- Set aside fantasy sports recommendation, business, unrelated
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
Abstract
A method and device are for fantasy sport applications including receiving a plurality of ranking values associated with a sport player; assigning a corresponding weight value to each ranking value; determining a score value as a function of the ranking value and the corresponding weight value; determining a final ranking value as a function of the score values for the sport player; and generating a recommendation for the sport player as a function of the final ranking value.
Background
FIELD OF THE INVENTION(1) This present invention pertains to the field of method and device for fantasy sport applications. The exemplary embodiments relate to a method and system for providing recommendations, in particular for drafting or managing a player in a fantasy sport teamBACKGROUND INFORMATION(2) A fantasy sport game is a simulation game where users act as managers or owners of simulated sport teams called “fantasy teams,” where each team comprises a number of “players.” Thus, the term “owner” is used to refer to a participant in the fantasy sport game. An owner may be a natural person or a computer-controlled opponent. A “user” is a fantasy owner who is also a natural person. Thus, the term “user” and “owner” are used interchangeably. In contrast, the term “player” refers to one of the selectable fantasy characters. In certain fantasy sport games, each player corresponds to an athlete in a professional sport league.(3) Features for conventional fantasy sport games are already known in the art. In a first example, a player evaluation system uses historical data to predict player performance through the end of the season using a blending function. The system is also applied in a draft context by assigning average performance values to the slots on the owner's team that have not yet been filled with players yet to be drafted. In calculating team points, one version weighs certain statistics more heavily than others.(4) In another conventional feature for a fantasy spo
Claims
1. A method for a fantasy sport application, comprising: by a processor device: establishing a connection to a plurality of user devices; hosting a fantasy sports draft for a fantasy league, wherein the fantasy league comprises a plurality of fantasy sports teams, each of the plurality of fantasy sports teams associated with a respective one of the plurality of user devices; receiving a plurality of ranking values associated with a plurality of sport players, wherein the ranking values include a plurality of draft positions of the plurality of sport players in other fantasy leagues for a current season; determining a current fantasy sport draft status, wherein the fantasy sport draft status comprises information relating to the fantasy sports league that correlates to a timing stage of a current fantasy sport draft and a plurality of sport players available for a selection, the timing stage indicating that one of the plurality of fantasy sports teams is to make a selection of one of the plurality of sports players available for selection; assigning a corresponding weight value to each ranking value; determining a score value as a function of the ranking value and the corresponding weight value; determining an adjusted ranking value as a function of the score values for the sport player; generating a recommendation of at least one sport player available for selection as a function of the current fantasy sport draft status and the adjusted ranking value; and providing the recommendation of the at least one sport player available for selection to one of the plurality of user devices prior to the associated one of the plurality of fantasy sports teams making the selection.
13. A device, comprising: a communication arrangement configured to communicate via a communication network with a plurality of user devices; a memory arrangement; and a processor to perform operations comprising: hosting a fantasy sports draft for a fantasy league, wherein the fantasy league comprises a plurality of fantasy sports teams, each of the plurality of fantasy sports teams associated with a respective one of the plurality of user devices; receiving a plurality of ranking values associated with a plurality of sport players, wherein the ranking values include a plurality of draft positions of the plurality of sport players in other fantasy leagues for a current season, determining a current fantasy sport draft status, wherein the fantasy sport draft status comprises information relating to the fantasy sports league that corresponds to a timing stage of a current fantasy sport draft and a plurality of sport players available for selection, the timing stage indicating that one of the plurality of fantasy sport teams is to make a selection of the one of the plurality of sports players available for selection, assigning a corresponding weight value to each ranking value, determining a score value as a function of the ranking value and the corresponding weight value, determining an adjusted ranking value as a function of the score values for the sport player, generating a recommendation of at least one sport player available for selection as a function of the current fantasy sport draft status and the adjusted ranking value, and providing the recommendation of the at least one sport player available for selection to one of the plurality of user devices prior to the associated one of the plurality of fantasy sports teams making the selection.
20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a set of instructions executable by a processor, the set of instructions, when executed, causing the processor to: host a fantasy sports draft for a fantasy league, wherein the fantasy league comprises a plurality of fantasy sports teams, each of the plurality of fantasy sports teams associated with a respective one a plurality of user devices; receive a plurality of ranking values associated with a plurality of sport players, wherein the ranking values include a plurality of draft positions of the plurality of sport players in other fantasy leagues for a current season; determining a current fantasy sport draft status, wherein the fantasy sport draft status comprises information relating to the fantasy sports league that correlates to a timing stage of a current fantasy sport draft and a plurality of sport players available for selection, the timing stage indicating that one of the plurality of fantasy sports teams is to make a selection of one of the plurality of sports players available for selection; assign a weight value to each ranking value; determine a score value as a function of the ranking value and the respective weight value; determine an adjusted ranking value as a function of the score values for each of the plurality of sport players; generate a recommendation list of sport players available for selection as a function of the current fantasy sport draft status and the adjusted ranking values, the list of sport players available for selection listed in an order according to their corresponding adjusted ranking value; and generate a message that is to be provided to one of the plurality of user devices prior to the associated one of the plurality of fantasy sports teams making the selection.