Re: Maximize Fantasy Baseball Lineup

2013-09-13 Thread Norman Richards
This sounds like a classic knapsack problem. For such a small problem space, a simple dynamic programming solution would suffice. If you are interested in exploring this problem at a larger scale, I high recommend coursera's Discrete Optimization class: https://class.coursera.org/optimization-0

Maximize Fantasy Baseball Lineup

2013-09-13 Thread Mark Watson
Hey, newish user here. I want to make an app that finds the optimal lineup for fantasy baseball games. Each player is assigned a cost, the average points they earn a game, and position. For example: Andrew McCutchen, 3.4, 4900, OF You have to pick one catcher, one pitcher, one first basemen, o