Fantasy Toolz Podcast

3.01 peeks at Rex Chapman’s Twitter account (0:40), brews an AeroPress review (1:59), notes that drafts are live with thoughts on TGFBI, the home league, & simultaneous slow drafts (4:54) including a live pick (8:10), drafts some algorithms for the second installment of algorithm club (15:20), and reviews Justin Upton (22:13).

3.00 tackles the TGFBI wrinkle ‘KDS’ (0:40), reintroduces ourselves (4:41) while sketching out season 3 (7:35), models optimal targets for full season stat totals (13:50), and reviews Ronald Acuna Jr. (26:36).

2.51 welcomes the arrival of pitchers & catchers (0:40), mentions the GoT catch-up schedule (1:27), bounces around some NBA topics (1:55), presents some rankings model updates (5:03), examines sample rankings anomalies (14:11) falling just short of presenting ninety-five theses, previews some changes coming in season 3 (23:36) including a change to the review sessions, and reviews Toy Story (26:31...

2.50 ogles at the TGFBI league assignments & data prospects (0:40), bats around some MLB player moves (2:07), exalts our new, live projections (4:46), picks at a few example projections (15:52), tackles the Super Bowl (23:50), and reviews Wizard People, Dear Reader (27:37).

2.49 welcomes a few TGFBI invite emails (0:39), bats around a few MLB player moves (1:45), throws some dirt on the grave of Python 2.7 (3:41), presents a starting pitcher forecasting model for Fantasy Baseball (4:41), flags some model forecasts (15:49), makes some Big Game predictions (25:43), and reviews Shaun of the Dead (26:56).

2.48 bats around some MLB players on the move (0:39), presents their groundbreaking cluster tree (4:58), slams in some projections planning (16:11), crashes into some NFL banter (22:25), and reviews The Fifth Element (25:23).

2.47 tackles the first GoT 8 teaser trailer release (0:40), analyzes the situation in Washington (2:05), presents innovations in pitcher clustering (5:06), continues evolving the pitching clusters by looking at them for Save & Win predictions (14:34), orders up some Star Wars chatter at the cantina (23:09), and reviews Episode III (26:41).

2.46 dissects GoT season 8 teaser footage (0:40), doinks into some NFL playoff conversation (2:27), bats around pitching cluster development thoughts about using and not using ratio stats (4:36), gazes at the wonder of no ratio pitching clusters (15:49), proposes a “convenient excuse” regarding the TWolves (22:32), and reviews Shrek (25:12).

2.45 wishes everyone a Happy New Year & critiques EoY review articles (0:43), notes the end of the NFL regular season (2:29), discusses choosing the right number of clusters in a clustering analysis (5:16), determines that including OBP in place of BA creates very different clusters (16:03), crosses over into an AI update (24:24), and reviews Apollo 13 (27:38).

2.44 wishes everyone Happy Holidays (0:40), revels in the dropkick in the Seahawks game & other NFL matter (1:54), bats around some fantasy rule change banter (4:40) twice (15:12), checks the NBA beat pulse (24:46), and reviews Sherlock Season 1 (26:12).

2.43 ponders the Vikings playoff chances (0:40), considers Mortal Engines (3:00), presents a multiyear clustering exercise (4:53), contemplates some example longitudinal clustering results (14:20), scrutinizes the Rule 5 draft results (23:49), and reviews Armageddon (25:47).

2.42 plunges through GoT scripts (0:39), follows Billy to Kansas City (2:25), workshops a 2D data comparison problem using RMS deviation (4:37), analyzes some example players highlighted by the RMS deviation (15:33), asks who the heck is Harold Baines (25:19), spares a glance for Rule 5 (26:41), and reviews Lebowski (27:58).

2.41 mixes Timberwolves with Coolio (0:37), huddles by the hot stove (3:52), conquers some tech (15:12), and reviews RoTJ (16:22).

2.40 investigates the new Brave: Josh Donaldson (0:40) with an addition to the bet box (1:29), dissects the GRRM interview with Colbert (1:46), revisits the preseason hitter projection archetype clustering exercise by comparing preseason projected with realized full season hitter stats (4:38), evaluates some sample player cluster assignments preseason vs full season (14:41), bounces some NBA talk...

2.39 figures out the Paxton trade (0:40), gazes at the NFL scorigami graphic (2:35), wades through the 2018 pitching bet box (4:22), unearths the 2018 hitting bet box (14:25), crushes the obligatory Thanksgiving banter (24:36), and reviews FB2 (25:39).

2.38 glances at Oumuamua (0:40), critiques the Amazon HQ pick(s) (2:17), presents the Injury Update Scraper (5:03), studies a few example injury watch players (14:07) & throws one in the bet box (17:22), postulates the European Super League’s success (23:54), and reviews Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (26:51).

2.37 discovers that the NFL season has passed the halfway mark (0:41), scrutinizes the moment America has been waiting for since 2016 (2:28), presents the basics of the Zeitgeist Model (4:24), tackles some zeitgeist case studies [‘Manny Machado’, ‘Alberto Mondesi’, ‘Kyle Freeland’, ‘David Peralta’, ‘Andrew Miller’](15:18), bats around the ‘18 gold glovers (23:23), and ends with a review of the Nig...

2.36 visits the EPL (0:40), ponders the World Series (1:46), bats around some offseason goals (7:06), flags some offseason storylines to watch (14:48) including lots of closer thoughts, deposits a bet box submission (22:34), obligatorily debates the MVP vote results (23:28), and reviews Minority Report (25:36).

2.35 reviews the Dodgers/Brewers series (0:38), flips through the fantasy section of the news (1:43), analyzes early ‘19 fantasy rankings (5:25) including devalued players (18:40), tackles BoJack 5.11 & 5.12 (23:56), gets excited for the World Series (26:44), and reviews Hook (28:30).

2.34 critiques job ads (0:38), explores the concept of what actually makes a ‘space movie’ (1:24), waxes poetic about the preseason consensus top 100 players (4:55), identifies the industry experts’ ‘worst calls’ from the top 100 going into 2018 (16:21), bounces around some NBA chatter(25:00), talks BoJack 5.9 & 5.10 (26:52), and reviews Fantastic Beasts 1 (29:10).

2.33 tackles BoJack 5.5 through 5.8 (0:38), finds it Sanoing in the DR (2:48), bats around some LDS banter (3:27), peeks in the bet box (5:52), reviews some mid-season pitcher predictions & fake trades (16:33), torments the EPL table (25:28), and reviews The Truman Show (27:26).

2.32 waxes poetic about 30/30 players (0:38), scrutinizes Khris Davis (4:25), kicks around some interactive graphics we’ve posted to our website (5:56), bats around some end of season baseball thoughts (12:46), wraps up some borderline HoF careers (25:58), and reviews HP3 (27:27).

2.31 apologizes for being late (0:37), shares an article about the AL East Champions banner being held hostage (1:01), drink up the #GAB(eer)F hashtag (2:09), bounces around the 4 200+K Indians (4:18), brainstorms online and interactive graphics (7:00), workshops a runs differential graphic (13:58), critiques BoJack 5.3 & 5.4 (24:33), looks at the Profar/Muncy ownership comparison (26:33), and rev...

2.30 delves into Matrix parallels (0:40), broaches looking at Daily Fantasy (2:18), analyzes Star Wars references by the DoD (3:14), critiques BoJack 5.1 & 5.2 (3:57), presents an applied H2H fantasy baseball problem for an emergency algorithm club (5:58), presents the applied Monte Carlo modeling exercise process & results (13:04), checks the bottom of the Premier League table (26:36), kicks arou...

2.29 looks at some recent Toolz approved player adds (0:41), critiques some 538 twitter feed action (3:16), presents a new series: visualization club (6:08), tackles task #1 of visualization club: 3D plots (14:46), ponders NFL week #1 (23:09), and reviews Empire (27:45).