Dynamic Ticket Update for External Event Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current game systems fail to incorporate external event outcomes effectively, particularly in sports fantasy-themed games, where real-life statistics are not determined until after ticket issuance, leading to challenges in maintaining ticket validity and player engagement.
Innovation Solution
A game system and method that utilizes a host computer to select or randomly determine a subset of real-world performers based on statistical metrics, allowing for dynamic updating of tickets with replacement performers if original performers become unavailable, ensuring ongoing game validity and player engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If real-life statistics are incorporated into fantasy sports games after ticket issuance, then the game can reflect actual external event outcomes, but the ticket validity and player engagement become difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the ticket content dynamically updateable. The system allows tickets to be modified after issuance by replacing performer indicia with replacement performer indicia when original performers become unavailable. This dynamic adjustment maintains ticket validity while incorporating real-time external event outcomes, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the host computer continuously monitors the availability status of performers and automatically triggers replacement processes. When a performer is determined to be unavailable, the system receives feedback about this status and automatically initiates the replacement process, ensuring tickets remain valid and engaging while adapting to changing external conditions.
2Reliability
If performer availability is continuously monitored to maintain ticket validity, then replacement performers can be substituted, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies self-service by having the host computer automatically monitor performer availability and execute replacement processes without requiring manual intervention. The system self-manages the complexity of tracking performer status and automatically updates tickets when needed, reducing the operational burden while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The host computer serves as an intermediary between the ticket issuance system and the external performer availability data. It receives status information about performers, processes the replacement logic, and updates the tickets accordingly. This intermediary role simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the complex monitoring and replacement operations in a single coordinating component.
3Ease of operation
If tickets are issued with predetermined winners, then the game is simple to play, but the value and fairness are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary action by pre-selecting and printing performer indicia on tickets before the external events occur. This maintains the simplicity of the game play, as players simply need to compare their pre-determined performers against the actual outcomes. The fairness is maintained because the pre-selection is random and unbiased, while the actual outcome determination relies on objective external event data.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of a game system and method employ the outcomes of external real-life events in determining winners. Generally, in various embodiments, the game system selects a group of performers for presenting in a game play area of an issued ticket, determines a performance score for each performer based on each performer's real-life performance in an upcoming event, and compares the performance score with the scores other performers in order to determine whether the ticket has zero, one or more winners. In embodiments, the game system can monitor performer status between the time of ticket issuance and the time of performance, and can replace any originally selected performers who become unavailable with a replacement performer. The game system and method of the present disclosure thus ensure that issued tickets maintain a full complement of chances based on external event outcomes.