Sports player ranker

• US 20070185599A1
• Filed: 02/03/2006
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Robinson, Shawn, Wojewoda, Lukasz
• Application Number:
  US11/347,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20070185599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/92
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/18 Baseball, rounders or similar games
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/22 Field hockey
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/24 Ice hockey
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/0025 Football American football A63B2243/007
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/0037 Basketball
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/0066 Rugby; American football
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/007 American football
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/06 Indicating or scoring devices for games or players , or for other sports activities
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0616 Means for conducting or scheduling competition, league, tournaments or rankings

Abstract

In one example, a system for ranking sports players is provided. The system includes display logic operable to display two players from a plurality of players, and selection logic operable to store a selection of one of the two players by a user. The system further includes logic operable to rank the players based upon user selections of the players. The system may pair players, e.g., select a first player and a second player for display and selection by a user, based on their relative rankings. In one example, a first player is selected and the second player is selected based on the ranking of the first player such that closely ranked players are paired for selection by users with greater frequency than remotely ranked players.

Claims

1. Sports player ranking logic, comprising:

display logic operable to initiate the display of two players of a plurality of players;

selection logic operable to store a selection of one of the two players by a user; and

ranking logic operable to rank the players based upon user selections of the players.

2. The ranking logic of claim 1, wherein the display logic is operable to display multiple combinations of two players from the plurality of players for selection by a user.

3. The ranking logic of claim 1, wherein the display logic is operable to select a first player and a second player for display, the second player selected based on the ranking of the first player.

4. The ranking logic of claim 3, wherein the selection logic is operable to select the second player based on a non-uniform probability distribution associated with the ranking of the first player.

5. The ranking logic of claim 3, wherein the selection logic is operable to select the first player randomly.

6. The ranking logic of claim 3, wherein the selection logic is operable to select the first player based on a previous user selection.

7. The ranking logic of claim 1, wherein the selection logic is operable to rank the players based on multiple user selections.

8. The ranking logic of claim 1, further comprising logic operable to display selection results of an individual player versus other players of the set of players.

9. Sports player ranking logic, comprising:

logic operable to rank a plurality of players based upon selections by a plurality of users, each of the selections comprising a selection of a player from a subset of the plurality of players.

10. The ranking logic of claim 9, wherein the subset comprises a pairing of two players.

11. The ranking logic of claim 9, wherein the pairing of two players comprises selecting a first player and a second player, the second player selected based on the ranking of the first player.

12. The ranking logic of claim 11, wherein the second player is selected based on a non-uniform probability distribution associated with the ranking of the first player.

13. The ranking logic of claim 11, wherein the first player is selected randomly.

14. The ranking logic of claim 11, wherein the first player is selected based on a previous user selection.

15. Ranking logic, comprising:

display logic operable to display two items from a plurality of items;

selection logic operable to store a selection of one of the two items by a user; and

ranking logic operable to rank the items based upon selections of the items, wherein the display logic is operable to select a first item and a second item for display, and the display logic is operable to select the second item based on a ranking of the first item.

16. The ranking logic of claim 15, wherein selection logic is operable to select the second item based on a non-uniform probability distribution associated with the ranking of the first item.

17. The ranking logic of claim 15, wherein selection logic is operable to select the first item randomly.

18. The ranking logic of claim 15, wherein selection logic is operable to select the first item based on a previous user selection.

19. A method for ranking a plurality of players, the method comprising:

displaying subsets of players from a plurality of players; and

ranking the plurality of players based upon user selections of a player from the displayed subsets of the plurality of players.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein each subset comprises a pairing of two players.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the pairing of two players comprises selecting a first player and a second player, the second player selected based on the ranking of the first player.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the second player is selected based on a non-uniform probability distribution associated with the ranking of the first player.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the first player is selected randomly.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the first player is selected based on a previous user selection.

25. A computer program product comprising program code for ranking items, the computer program product comprising:

program code operable to initiate the display of two players from a set of players;

program code operable to store a selection of one of the two players by a user; and

program code operable to rank the set of players based upon user selections of the players.

26. The computer program product of claim 25, wherein the program code is further operable to select a first player and a second player for display, the second player selected based on the ranking of the first player.

27. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the second player is selected based on a non-uniform probability distribution associated with the ranking of the first player.

28. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the first player is selected randomly.

29. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the first player is selected based on a previous user selection.

30. The computer program product of claim 25, further comprising program code operable to rank the set of players based on multiple user selections.

31. The computer program product of claim 25, further comprising program code operable to display selection results of an individual player versus other players of the set of players.