Re: Fantasy Baseball Lineup Optimization

2013-09-15 Thread Mikera
You might want to take a look at this library announcement (CloCoP): I think it may be just what you need: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/krPr6xb5rGQ/discussion On Friday, 13 September 2013 22:52:04 UTC+8, Mark Watson wrote: > > Hi, newish user here. > > I want to make an app that fin

Re: Fantasy Baseball Lineup Optimization

2013-09-15 Thread Angel Java Lopez
I don't know how to play baseball, what a lineup is, etc... But first idea to explore: genetic algorithm On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Matthew Rocklin wrote: > Perhaps a bit intense but this problem might lend itself to mixed integer > linear programming. MILP is a very broad formulation o

Re: Fantasy Baseball Lineup Optimization

2013-09-14 Thread Matthew Rocklin
Perhaps a bit intense but this problem might lend itself to mixed integer linear programming. MILP is a very broad formulation of optimization problems. Optimal solution of MILP problems is NP-Hard but very mature software solutions exist. I don't know what's out there in Clojure land for th