Fantasy Celebrity Game

Abstract

An online game in which the participants, called “owners”, each assemble a team of real life celebrities from mainstream movie, music, television, fashion, and sports. The owners score points based on personal and professional events in the lives of the celebrities on their team.

1 . A method of playing a celebrity activity based game via the internet for a plurality of players, comprising the steps of providing a website where each player can construct a team of real-life celebrities; providing a webmaster, who would control all aspects of the game, enforce game rules, and determine game period length, celebrity team size, and scoring; providing a scoring of the positive and negative aspects of each celebrity's life as determined by the webmaster or a player vote; providing a game period, where celebrities would be drafted onto player's teams at the start. At the end of the game period, the winner would be proclaimed according to game rules.  
     
     
         2 . A method according to  claim 1 , where each team will be comprised of a fixed number of celebrities to be determined by the webmaster.  
     
     
         3 . A method according to claims  1 - 2 , providing web based software to draft celebrities onto a player's team. Unwanted celebrities in the draft are placed on waivers and become free agents. These celebrities can be taken by any owner's team. At the start of each game period, the webmaster has the option of allowing owners to keep a certain number of celebrities on each team, or starting each owner with a blank roster. To fill a roster, the owners would need to draft or auction free agent or rookie celebrities onto their teams. Owners may also trade celebrities among teams based on agreements among the owners.  
     
     
         4 . A method according to claim  1 - 3 , whereby teams can play each other in a head-to-head format. The winner is decided by win-loss record.  
     
     
         5 . A method according to claim  1 - 3 , whereby teams are arranged in leagues and the winner is the team scoring the most points.  
     
     
         6 . A method according to claims  4  and  5 , whereby the winner is the team scoring the most negative points.  
     
     
         7 . A method of scoring according to claims  1 - 6  based on events in the real life of each celebrity. The scoring will be determined by the webmaster based on the importance of the event in both the personal and professional life of the celebrity. More significant events will earn more points.  
     
     
         8 . A method of scoring according to claims  1 - 6  based on events in the real life of each celebrity. The scoring will be determined by polling the website users and taking a weighted average result.  
     
     
         9 . A method according to claim  1 - 8 , providing web based software written in (but not limited to) Java, Javascript, and PHP to track the player's team and the associated rankings. This software would make use of relational databases to keep track of all game play activities and statistics.