Granted Patent B2

US 12,415,130 · App. 18/415,951 · Granted Sep 16, 2025

Inventor: Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago, IL)

Assignee: STATS LLC

A63F13/497A63F13/573A63F13/86A63F2300/5533A63F2300/646

Abstract

Claims (46)

1. A method, comprising:

retrieving, by a computing system, historical event data for a plurality of sporting matches, wherein retrieving the historical event data comprises:

receiving, by the computing system, broadcast video data corresponding to the plurality of sporting matches;

deriving, by the computing system, player tracking data from the broadcast video data;

augmenting, by the computing system, the player tracking data with the historical event data;

generating, by the computing system, one or more attributes of a team and of at least one player on the team based on the historical event data;

receiving, by the computing system, a request to simulate and view an alternative historical game outcome;

simulating, by the computing system, the alternative historical game outcome based on the one or more attributes generated by the computing system; and

outputting, by the computing system, a graphical representation of the simulation.

2. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:

generating, by the computing system, body pose data for the at least one player based on the historical event data.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the simulating the alternative historical game outcome is based on the body pose data.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphical representation includes at least one skeletal representation of the at least one player, and wherein the at least one skeletal representation is based on the one or more attributes.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more attributes include one or more player trajectories, one or more team styles, and one or more player roles.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request comprises substituting a player that was in a play of a historical game with a target player that was not in the play.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, which, when executed by a processor, causes a computing system to perform operations comprising:

retrieving historical event data for a plurality of sporting matches, wherein retrieving the historical event data comprises:

receiving broadcast video data corresponding to the plurality of sporting matches;

deriving player tracking data from the broadcast video data;

augmenting the player tracking data with the historical event data;

generating one or more attributes of a team and of at least one player on the team based on the historical event data;

receiving a request to simulate and view an alternative historical game outcome;

simulating the alternative historical game outcome based on the one or more attributes generated by the computing system; and

outputting a graphical representation of the simulation.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , the operations further comprising:

generating body pose data for the at least one player based on the historical event data.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the simulating the alternative historical game outcome is based on the body pose data.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the graphical representation includes at least one skeletal representation of the at least one player, and wherein the at least one skeletal representation is based on the one or more attributes.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the one or more attributes include one or more player trajectories, one or more team styles, and one or more player roles.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the request comprises substituting a player that was in a play of a historical game with a target player that was not in the play.

13. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having programming instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, causes the system to perform operations comprising:

retrieving, by a computing system, historical event data for a plurality of sporting matches, wherein retrieving the historical event data comprises:

receiving, by the computing system, broadcast video data corresponding to the plurality of sporting matches;

deriving, by the computing system, player tracking data from the broadcast video data;

augmenting, by the computing system, the player tracking data with the historical event data

generating, by the computing system, one or more attributes of a team and of at least one player on the team based on the historical event data;

receiving, by the computing system, a request to simulate and view an alternative historical game outcome;

simulating, by the computing system, the alternative historical game outcome based on the one or more attributes generated by the computing system; and

outputting, by the computing system, a graphical representation of the simulation.

14. The system of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:

generating, by the computing system, body pose data for the at least one player based on the historical event data.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the simulating the alternative historical game outcome is based on the body pose data.

16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the graphical representation includes at least one skeletal representation of the at least one player, and wherein the at least one skeletal representation is based on the one or more attributes.

17. The system of claim 13 , wherein the one or more attributes include one or more player trajectories, one or more team styles, and one or more player roles.

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