Will you ever have an option to calculate the minimum score in your optimizer, rather than it always being the maximum score? I know for Golf, if you uploaded projections based upon what the golfer's projected score is going to be, then you would want to calculate the lineups based upon the lowest total score. You might also want to upload a column with a numeric rank for each player, with 1 being the best player, and you would want to optimize based upon that rank, which would also require calculating the minimum score.

Also, do you ever think you might add a way to optimize based upon two (or more) columns of data, rather than just the projection column?

When looking back on some of the top lineups for the NBA main slates for the past few days, I see this for the salaries of the players:
11200,10500,6200,6100,5500,4000,3200,3000
10000,8500,6600,6200,5900,4700,4300,3000
8600,7600,7200,6600,6000,5200,4800,3800
9500,8800,7200,6600,4800.4400,4200,3800

These all have a couple of things in common: 1-2 players 8600 or above, and 1-2 players 3800 and below.

To try and produce similar type lineups in FantasyCruncher, would it make sense to create two groups, one of players 8600 and over, and one for players 3800 and under that are in your player pool for the current slate, and to set up a rule for each group to have 1 or 2 players from those groups in every lineup created? Would that work any better than just creating normal lineups?

I thought I might also create a group for the highest salary players, either to set 1 (or sometimes 0) of them in lineups to get at least one stud player in the lineups, as in the first example.

Has anyone tried doing anything like this in FantasyCruncher to get a better set of lineups that are more like the ones that normally score best?

If I want to play a NBA 150-lineup DK contest, and I have a player pool of around 40 players, which of these strategies would give me the best results, in most cases:
1. Use 1 unique player, 100% exposure, to create 500+ lineups and then take the 150 with the best projected scores.
2. Increase the number of unique players at 100% exposure until it only can create around 150 lineups.
3. Use 1 unique player and decrease the exposure until you get around 150 lineups.
4. User 2 or 3 unique players, and reduce the exposure until you get around 150 lineups.
5. Decrease the number of players in the player pool until with 1 unique player and 100% exposure until you get around 150 lineups.
6. Decrease the number of players in the player pool with any of the other strategies above to get 150 lineups.

I would be interested in how you might be using FantasyCruncher for these large entry contests on DK and what results you have been getting.

When I sometimes enter a multi-entry tournament, I like to create many more lineups that I really need to, to find the best scoring lineups based upon either your projections or my own that are uploaded. Even if I only need 20 lineups, I may create up to 500 lineups to narrow it down to the best 20. If I just said to create 20 or even 50 lineups, based upon my settings, it might not create the 20 highest scoring lineups. I would like to have the option after creating a large number of lineups, based upon the sort selected, you could simply say to delete all but the highest X number of lineups and it would remove all of the low-scoring lineups.

An extension of this concept would be to do this among crunches. If you have created 15-20 crunches for a particular contest, you could way to delete all crunches except the ones with the highest X number of lineups. Then you could merge these together to form the one set of lineups that you will export to a .CSV file.

I would like to see a new feature that would allow you to merge all crunches down to one single crunch. I often use various strategies to create multiple crunches for a contest and may have 20 or more crunches created that I want to merge down to one for exporting to a .CSV file. It would nice to be able to say merge all crunches and it would create a new empty crunch, and them move all of the open crunches into that new crunch to create one single one.

I would like to see a feature where you could switch the optimizer to look for the lowest optimized lineup scores based upon uploaded projections. This would come out most useful for PGA golf events wherein you might upload projected scores for a tournament. It might also come in handy for those rare contests where you win be picking the lowest score for the slate rather than the highest.