A method of determining the winners of, for example, a game of skill in conjunction with a football or baseball game without the input of all the scores is provided. By the use of statistical sampling a small fraction of the remote players upload their scores to a central station via a telephone line,...http://www.google.com/patents/US5013038?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5013038 - method of evaluating data relating to a common subject