My Baseball Coach vs Optimal 9
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Baseball Coach
Organize your baseball team with this app. Easily add players, create batting lineups, and strategically position them on the field. Streamline your game day management.
- Add players
- Set batting order
- Place field positions
- Team setup
- Game day management
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Looking to setup your baseball team? use our app to add players, set batting order and place players field positions.
Optimal 9
This app simulates baseball batting orders using real player statistics from recent seasons. It allows users to test different lineup configurations to maximize run scoring potential over a series of games. Analyze performance based on actual data and roster information.
- Batting order optimization
- Real statistical performance analysis
- 2022-2023 season data
- Roster integration
- Multi-game simulation
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Optimize the batting order for a baseball team using real statistical performance. This is a way to test your theories about which batter should hit in each position for maximum run scoring in a game. The simulator uses actual 2022 and 2023 statistics and rosters and allows you to choose any batting order over a large series of games to analyze the performance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Optimal 9 at 2.0 against My Baseball Coach's 1.0. My Baseball Coach's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Optimal 9 holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
My Baseball Coach ships an update every 3 weeks, Optimal 9 every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Baseball Coach | Optimal 9 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Judson Cooper | Stuart Zussman |
Customer experience
My Baseball Coach
Optimal 9
In-app purchases
My Baseball Coach
No in-app purchases
Optimal 9
No in-app purchases
Questions
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