System for managing individual performance challenges in fantasy gaming

Abstract

Short term wagers can be made on predicted outcomes of performances in events such as the performance of a specific player in a sports event or the performance of a company stock in a given time frame. A user can select a plurality of challenge parameters, including a time duration of a challenge; a subject matter of the challenge; a type of wager for the challenge; a specific player for the challenge; and a wager amount for the challenge. The plurality of challenge parameters can be transmitted to a matching engine in order to match the challenge to one or more target users based upon a comparison of the challenge parameters to a plurality of historical challenge parameters for each of the target users to find common parameters. A casino or sports bookmaker can also accept the challenge as a house player.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A fantasy challenge gaming system, comprising:
 a gaming engine configured to receive a plurality of challenge parameters selected by a user; and   a matching engine configured to match the user with a challenger for a fantasy challenge game based upon a comparison of the plurality of challenge parameters selected by the user to a plurality of historical challenge parameters selected by each of a plurality of potential challengers in previous challenges to find a match between at least one of the plurality of challenge parameters and the historical challenge parameters.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the challenge parameters include a wager amount, a time duration and a subject matter of a challenge. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the challenger is a house user comprising a casino or a sports bookmaker, and wherein the gaming engine accepts or declines the challenge on behalf of the house user. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the challenge parameters includes a time duration of a challenge. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the time duration is two minutes, five minutes or ten minutes. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the challenge parameters includes a subject matter of the challenge and the subject matter of the challenge comprises stocks, commodities and sports. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the challenge parameters includes a specific player for the challenge, and the specific player comprises a corporate stock. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising a user computing device in communication with the gaming engine, wherein the user computing device is configured to display via the graphical user interface a ledger screen listing a history the user's challenges, the history including a scored outcome and corresponding wager amount for each listed challenge. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the gaming engine is further configured to award a reward to the user based upon the first user's wager amount and a win/loss record of the user. 
     
     
         10 . A method of wagering on predicted outcomes of performances in events, the method comprising:
 selecting a plurality of challenge parameters by a user;   transmitting the plurality of challenge parameters to a matching engine; and   matching by the matching engine the user to one or more potential challengers by comparing the plurality of challenge parameters selected by the user to a plurality of historical challenge parameters selected by each of a plurality of potential challengers in previous challenges to find a match between at least one of the plurality of challenge parameters and the historical challenge parameters.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising transmitting a challenge request from the user to the one or more potential challengers. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the one or more potential challengers includes a sports bookmaker or a casino. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the comparison of challenge parameters includes a comparison of a wager amount, a time duration and a subject matter of the challenge. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the comparison of challenge parameters includes a comparison of a specific player for the challenge. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising displaying a ledger screen to the user, the ledger screen listing a history the user's challenges, the history including a scored outcome and corresponding wager amount for each listed challenge. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising awarding a plurality of points to the user based upon the user's wager amount and a win/loss record of the user. 
     
     
         17 . A method of matching a wager of a user on predicted outcomes of performances in events with a challenger that is likely to accept the wager of the user, the method comprising:
 comparing by a gaming engine a plurality of user-selected challenge parameters to a plurality of historical challenge parameters selected by each of a plurality of potential challengers in previous challenges to find a match between at least one of the plurality of user-selected challenge parameters and the historical challenge parameters of the potential challengers; and   transmitting by the gaming engine a challenge by the user to one or more of the potential challengers that had a match between their historical challenge parameters and the user-selected challenge parameters.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the user-selected challenge parameters comprise a time duration of the challenge. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the user-selected challenge parameters comprise a subject matter of the challenge. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the user-selected challenge parameters comprise a wager amount of the challenge.