Baseball line-up optimizer

The greatest baseball line-up of all time.

Nifty little utility based on some sabermetric principles. You fill in any line-up and it will give you the optimal line-ups and the number of runs per game produced by each line-up.

The best run-scoring team of all time (using each player's best SLG and OBP) is:

OF: Bonds-Mantle-Ruth

IF: Schmidt, A-Rod, Hornsby, Gehrig

C: Piazza

DH: Williams

The model always places Bonds in the lead-off slot.

It's a pretty strong line-up when you have Rogers Hornsby, winner of two triple crowns, both with batting averages over .400, batting ninth.