Online fantasy sports game system and method

Abstract

A method of enabling a user to play an online fantasy sports game that provides an opportunity to play the game when the user visits a lottery site, provides a plurality of fantasy sports selections in a time window, the plurality of fantasy sports selections corresponds to an option to select a plurality of related actual sports games specified in the time window for that fantasy sport selection, receives the one or more fantasy sports selections that completes a lottery submission before the time window begins, determines a fantasy performance score for each of the plurality of corresponding actual sports games, determines which users have won the game based on each user's selections and each of the determined corresponding fantasy performance scores, and transmits an electronic message indicating one or more winners of corresponding lottery submissions when certain users are identified to have won the game.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system comprising:
 a lottery site; and   a fantasy game system comprising a lottery component that is communicatively coupled to the lottery site.