What if I told you that with just the click of a button you could have your fantasy lineup set for you. Would you find this idea interesting? If you are 1) sometimes lazy in setting your lineup or 2) interested in the what the logic behind choosing the optimal lineup should be, then hopefully you answered yes to this question. In typical Greysian fashion there is no 3), but I imagine there are people that would fall into a third category as well.

If you find yourself curious about the technical details of how this is done, scroll down because I’m going to save that for the end of the article. What I’d like to jump right into instead, is the algorithm that will determine what the optimal lineup is for a fantasy team, because I think that’s the most interesting and nuanced part of this whole process.