Sports team organizer

Abstract

A computer-based system and method is disclosed for organizing a sports team, including a memory for storing roster information with player position data and biographical data for a plurality of players; stored programs including a lineup optimizer program; and a processor operating with the stored programs for processing the roster information using the lineup optimizer program to generate an optimized lineup of the plurality of players. A drill program uses drill data representing team and playing field images for generating a graphic representation of a drill for output. A graphic user interface is included for processing user commands and activated icons to control the processor and to output outputting the graphic representation and other team information. Using roster information including rating data of the players, the lineup optimizer program processes the rating data to generate the optimized lineup from a plurality of optimizing rules by rating minima for each of a plurality of positions, with the optimized lineup determined from permutations of the players having associated ratings and corresponding positions such that the ratings of players in each position is at least equal to the rating minima. A method is disclosed for organizing a sports team including the steps of storing roster information including player position data and rating data for a plurality of players in a memory; storing optimizing rules; operating a processor using a lineup optimizer program to apply the optimizing rules to the roster information; and generating an optimized lineup of the plurality of players.