Fantasy Toolz Podcast

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Synopsis

To quote Dr. Evil, "The details of our lives are quite inconsequential." What's important is that we like fantasy, as it applies to the genre and the game derived from baseball statistics. We also enjoy developing analytical and computational tools for supporting the latter habit. Our goal is to share our fantasy baseball tools with a little help from the fantasy genre for context, allusion, and (fire and) ice breaking. In doing so, we hope to broaden the way our audience approaches fantasy baseball. Our podcast presents our methods to the public in the spirit of OpenSource - through freely helping others we promote active conversation that improves our tools.

Episodes

  • Episode 7.42 - Passing Some Muster

    04/01/2024 Duration: 32min

    7.42 dives into some preseason ‘24 signings (0:37), continues workshopping preseason pitching rankings by tinkering with weights (5:05), and reviews Carlos Santana (24:07).

  • Episode 7.41 - Delta of Deltas

    19/12/2023 Duration: 27min

    7.41 gives a quick MLB hot stove update (0:39), compares 2023 & 2024 preseason rankings while eyeing a longitudinal tracking tool (4:08), and reviews Christian Vazquez (21:20).

  • Episode 7.40 - Rankers to Consensus

    05/12/2023 Duration: 33min

    7.40 predicts some MLB offseason player movement (0:37), tries some new queries on the 2023 MLB ownership data (7:25), and reviews Brandon Belt (26:01).

  • Episode 7.39 - Next Stop, Prison

    28/11/2023 Duration: 28min

    7.39 looks into offseason MLB pitcher movement (0:34), peeks at the NBA (2:53), slams together some way too early 2024 SP predictions (4:31), and reviews Wilmer Flores (22:09).

  • Episode 7.38 - Everybody Looking 600

    22/11/2023 Duration: 32min

    7.38 huddles up to the hot stove (0:40), kicks around some EPL (3:28), wanders through “Too Early” 2024 predictions (5:40), and reviews Garrett Cooper (23:50).

  • Episode 7.37 - Select Guys That Look Like Alek Manoah

    14/11/2023 Duration: 30min

    7.37 congratulates all the newly hired managers (0:40), probes the longitudinal ownership data that has accumulated over the season (3:35), and reviews Isaac Paredes (21:44).

  • Episode 7.36 - All Sorts of Stuff

    07/11/2023 Duration: 33min

    7.36 congratulates the Texas Rangers WS win (0:36), notes the release of Gold Glove awards (1:56), scrutinizes Votto’s release (3:43), roots through the bet box (5:26), and reviews Brendan Donovan (27:58).

  • Episode 7.35 - Applied Statistics

    31/10/2023 Duration: 28min

    7.35 wades into the ‘23 WS matchup (0:38), intros Bayesian Stats 101 for Fantasy Baseball (7:03), and reviews Joey Votto (18:37).

  • Episode 7.34 - Mutually Exclusive

    16/10/2023 Duration: 34min

    7.34 bats around some MLB ‘23 Championship Series talk (0:35), tests one of the Toolz on their knowledge of the ‘23 FBB season (4:18), and reviews Juan Yepez (27:30).

  • Episode 7.33 - Too Many Shortstops

    11/10/2023 Duration: 34min

    7.33 bats around some MLB ‘23 divisional playoffs (0:37), concludes Ahsoka season 1 & WoT 2 (4:22), does a postmortem on the Toolz TGFBI performances (11:17), and reviews Matt Mervis (28:04).

  • Episode 7.32 - Skip the Pitchers

    03/10/2023 Duration: 32min

    7.32 welcomes the ‘23 MLB Playoffs (0:40), says so long to Tim (1:26), checks the final TGFBI standings (3:07), turns the wheel on WoT & Ahsoka (4:15), posits potential Fantasy MVP candidates (7:19), and reviews Alex Kirilloff (25:05).

  • Episode 7.31 - Pivoted So Hard

    28/09/2023 Duration: 32min

    7.31 reads an MLB article about incredible stats (0:39), checks the TGFBI standings (5:23), rounds up WoT/Ahsoka episode 6s (6:55), wanders through players straddling AAA & MLB across hitters & pitchers (11:08), and reviews Wil Myers (24:27).

  • Episode 7.30 - Going to the last day

    19/09/2023 Duration: 27min

    7.30 finds clinching season in the MLB (0:34), checks the TGFBI standings (1:38), provides quick hits on Ahsoka & WoT (3:36), explores some Runs summary stats (8:00), and Jared Walsh (21:09).

  • Episode 7.29 - Rule Change Precipitates Change

    12/09/2023 Duration: 30min

    7.29 reads a report on SBs (0:37), checks the TGFBI standings (2:11), wanders through Ahsoka & WoT (3:23), tosses around some top 20 SP lists from the last 6 seasons for predicting repeats (7:34), and reviews Spencer Torkelson (20:00).

  • Episode 7.28 - Late and Pre-Processed

    06/09/2023 Duration: 23min

    ***Apologies for the audio quality**** 7.28 ponders the Astros/Rangers rivalry (0:35), check the TGFBI standings (2:32), wanders through Ahsoka Season 1 & WoT Season 2 (3:14), automates Minors callups analysis (7:39), and reviews Yandy Diaz (15:51).

  • Episode7.27- Given up on K(aves)

    03/09/2023 Duration: 29min

    7.27 drools over 30/30 seasons while anticipating a 30/60 club (0:37), reports on the gut punch feeling of Mookie in Fenway in a Dodgers uni (2:35), checks the TGFBI standings (4:54), wanders into Ahsoka (8:05), scrutinizes accumulating HR & SB in a weekly league playoff matchup from the waiver wire (9:53), and reviews DJ LeMahieu (20:08).

  • Episode 7.26 - Optimisation Problems

    22/08/2023 Duration: 34min

    7.26 ponders SoCal baseball (0:37), checks the TGFBI standings (3:50), presents TGFBI pitching as an optimization problem (7:06), and reviews Trey Mancini (28:16).

  • Episode7.25 - Good/Bad Ks Numbers

    15/08/2023 Duration: 33min

    7.25 bats around some MLB topics (0:35), checks TGFBI standings (4:07), walks through a strikeout summary statistical analysis (6:30), and reviews Miguel Vargas (26:08).

  • Episode 7.24 - Busy Guys

    09/08/2023 Duration: 32min

    7.24 compares a no-hitter to a 1-hitter (0:38), checks TGFBI standings (2:48), notes the EPL’s return (6:13), tries modeling pitching rotation order for forecasting pitcher matchups (7:47), and reviews Seth Brown (22:46).

  • Episode 7.23 - All the Closer Things

    01/08/2023 Duration: 31min

    7.23 bats around some MLB trade deadline ‘23 moves (0:38), walks through some TGFBI news (4:08), works through all the closer things (6:28), and reviews Triston Casas (22:18).

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