Interactive contest system

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The disclosed interactive contest system includes an apparatus for accommodating the interactive sports contest and a method for conducting the interactive sports contest.
Of course it is also possible that the apparatus of the interactive contest system, and certain elements of the method outlined for conducting an interactive sports contest may also be applied to an interactive stock investment contest or the like.
Apparatus of the Interactive Contest System As illustrated in FIG.
1, the interactive contest system includes a central controller 100; data entry terminals 105; a data link 108; a Contest Roster 110; a statistical database 120; a team roster database 130; and a player score computer 270 contained within statistical database 120 for calculating a score for each player as a function of the individual player's actual performance.
Alternatively, for example, the player score computer 270 may be used to update the prices of certain stocks on the stock exchange.
Central Controller The central controller 100 includes or has access to a Contest Roster 110 which advantageously includes a list of athletes which can be relied upon in the contest.
The central controller 100 also includes or has access to the team roster database 130 which includes the team rosters as selected and entered by each of the participants, including the identifying information which associates a team roster to the corresponding participant.
The central controller 100 also includes or has access to the statistical database 120 which includes the recent statistics of each player on the contest Roster 110.
The central controller 100 also includes or has access to the player score for each player on the Contest Roster 110 as based upon the associated statistical database 120.
Preferably, the central controller 100 is adapted to recognize and distinguish machine recognizable signals, such as transmitted by a conventional Touch-Tone.
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telephone 102.
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2 depicts a block diagram of the central controller 100, as well as some external components