Fantasy lineup optimizer

Choose the highest-scoring eligible lineup within a salary budget from your own player projections.

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Players: name, eligible positions, salary, projected points; one per line

Roster slots, comma-separated; use | for flex eligibility

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Total salary budget

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Choose the highest-scoring eligible lineup within a salary budget from your own player projections.

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Formula and assumptions

Paste a shortlist with one player per line: name, positions, whole-number salary, projected points. Separate multiple eligible positions with | and roster slots with commas. This maximizes only the projections you enter; it supplies no player news, stats, odds or recommendations. No team stacking or contest-specific rules are assumed. Up to 20 players and eight slots, with a 500,000-state calculation cap; ties prefer lower cost. For start/sit comparisons, use one slot.

Automatic precision shows numbers to 12 significant digits. Thousands separators such as 1,000 are accepted; use a dot for decimals.

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Updated 2026-09-29

Using Fantasy lineup optimizer

Choose the highest-scoring eligible lineup within a salary budget from your own player projections.

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A worked example

For players: name, eligible positions, salary, projected points; one per line = Alex,QB,6000,20 Blair,QB,5000,18 Casey,RB,7000,22 Drew,RB,4000,14 Ellis,RB,5000,19, roster slots, comma-separated; use | for flex eligibility = QB,RB, total salary budget = 11000, maximum entered projected points = 39.

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Example results for total salary budget

These examples use Players: name, eligible positions, salary, projected points; one per line: Alex,QB,6000,20 Blair,QB,5000,18 Casey,RB,7000,22 Drew,RB,4000,14 Ellis,RB,5000,19; Roster slots, comma-separated; use | for flex eligibility: QB,RB. They are reference calculations, not recommended settings.

Total salary budget	Maximum entered projected points
11000	39
22000	42

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