Simulated/video fantasy sports league

Abstract

A method and system for conducting a fantasy sports league. A video game provided with all of the teams and their active rosters for a particular sport and season would be used to simulate the play of the game for an actual or projected season for that sport. Team owners, coaches or managers would draft players off the active roster for that sport and matchups between the teams in the fantasy league would utilize statistics generated during the simulated play of a schedule of games to determine comprehensive performance points for each team which would be utilized to determine the winner of matchups between fantasy league teams.

1 . A method of operating a sports fantasy league utilizing a video game containing all of the sports teams active rosters, and projected weekly schedule for a particular sport, comprising the steps of:
 forming a plurality of fantasy team owners for a particular sport;   drafting players for each of the fantasy teams from the active roster included in the video game to provide a lineup of players for each of the fantasy teams;   providing a schedule of matchups between the plurality of fantasy teams;   playing simulated games utilizing the video game for each of the projected weekly schedules, the simulated games being played without any interference from any of the fantasy team owners;   assigning performance points based upon the play of each simulated game for each of the players on the active roster of a fantasy team owner's fantasy team; and   calculating the performance points for each lineup of players of each of the fantasy teams to create a cumulative score for each of the fantasy teams for a projected week's schedule.   
     
     
         2 . The method in accordance with  claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:
 comparing the cumulative score between the each of the matchups for a particular week to determine a winner between each of the matchups; and   posting a weekly standing of the fantasy team based upon the winner of the matchups for each week during the course of a fantasy league season.   
     
     
         3 . The method in accordance with  claim 2 , wherein the particular sport is football, and each of the fantasy teams drafting at least one team defense to be included in the lineup. 
     
     
         4 . The method in accordance with  claim 3 , wherein the performance points include points assigned to the team defense. 
     
     
         5 . The method in accordance with  claim 1 , wherein the drafting of players and the playing of the simulated games are done over the Internet. 
     
     
         6 . The method in accordance with  claim 5 , wherein all plays of all of the simulated games are streamed over the Internet. 
     
     
         7 . The method in accordance with  claim 6 , wherein advertisements are aired during the course of streaming the simulated games over the Internet. 
     
     
         8 . The method in accordance with  claim 1 , further including the step of using the weather conditions at the site of a projected home team to affect the simulated game at that site.