Fantasy Toolz Podcast

5.38 leafs through the MLB news (0:39), turns the Wheel of Time discussing 0.1 and 0.2 (3:22), kicks around some EPL (6:44), walks through some Hot Stove case studies for player team changes (8:51), and reviews Willy Adames (21:07).

5.37 tallies the MLB awards predictions (0:39), turns the wheel of time (2:16), kicks around some EPL (8:28), walks the long and winding road towards predicting PAs preseason (9:18), and reviews Amed Rosario (20:20).

5.36 bats around some MLB awards talk (0:37), punts some Football talk (5:40), wanders around some lineup discussion (9:51), and reviews Andrelton Simmons (20:43). Quick note: we struggled through some poorly timed background noise, apologies for the clipping!

5.35 congratulates the Braves (0:39), works through potential changes next season in the MLB (1:55), kicks around some EPL (3:33), spot checks the 2022 predictions by gut checking scoring category lines for 6 players [Walker Buehler, Jack Flaherty, Zack Wheeler, Manny Machado, DJ LeMahieu, Willy Adames] (5:00), and reviews Chris Taylor (25:49).

5.34 tosses around some World Series thoughts (0:38), kicks around some EPL (3:48), peeks through the pitching validation (5:58), and reviews Willi Castro (21:09).

5.33 reviews the AL/NLCS picks plus picks a World Series team (0:38), reviews No Time to Die as well as Dune (3:54), kicks around some football (9:57), and walks through some validation of preseason predictions (12:20).

5.32 bats around some week one 2021 MLB Playoff talk (0:38), tackles some football (5:14), wanders through rankings data (7:57), and reviews Andres Gimenez (24:52).

5.31 scrutinizes the MLB playoff matchups (0:41), kicks around some EPL (3:23), dives into the Fantasy Baseball bet box (5:35), and reviews Jose Iglesias (27:23).

5.30 tracks the evolving MLB playoff picture (0:39), kicks around some EPL (2:46), schemes the last TGFBI push (4:40), reads through the abstract for “Predicting draft opponents' behavior with agent-based modeling” (14:43), and reviews David Fletcher (20:12).

5.29 anticipates MLB playoff seedings (0:38), passes through some NFL (2:58), kicks around some football (4:58), prepares for the fall writing season by laying down some groundwork for 2022 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference abstract submission (7:25), and reviews Jake Cronenworth (18:13).

5.28 bathes in the imminent inundation of fantasy on the big screen (0:38), wanders through a quick query of top 5 hitters & top five pitchers over the last 21 days (2:01), kicks around double football (6:19), presents progress on the Agent-Based Model for Pitcher Selection in an NFBC format (9:27), and reviews Paul DeJong (20:42).

5.27 eulogizes Fantasy endings (0:40), kicks around some EPL (2:18), turns the Wheel of Time talk (4:12), throws out the idea of agent-based modeling for game theorizing TGFBI pitcher picking (7:11), and reviews Jazz Chisholm (21:21).

5.26 scrutinizes the “Brown is Back” campaign (0:39), kicks around some EPL (3:29), benchmarks a pickup model for pitchers in TGFBI (6:59), and reviews Ketel Marte (20:48).

5.25 connects Henri with Baseball (0:40), kicks around some EPL (2:38), postmortems the H2H case study results from the Toolz derby (5:18), identifies some hitters outperforming their preseason forecasts (13:35), and reviews Jorge Polanco (22:52).

5.24 tosses out a first pitch (0:45), scrutinizes the recent no-hitter source (2:54), kicks around some EPL (5:30), provides a Fantasy playoff H2H matchup planning case study: Toolz Derby (6:40), and reviews Jonathan Villar (22:47).

5.23 swabs the Yankees dugout (0:40), preps for the start of the Premier League (3:26), identifies some long shots for the Fantasy playoffs (6:21), and reviews Miguel Rojas (22:50

5.22 seeks relief after the MLB trade deadline (0:39), seeks fantasy news from the Amazon LoTR series release date (4:21), seeks lineup clarity through some new tech highlighting player movement & trades (8:05), and seeks understanding of erstwhile shortstop Alex Bregman (17:32).

5.21 bemoans trade deadline impacts on Fantasy (0:42), torches the 2020 Olympics (3:46), notes the (Sir Gawain and) The Green Knight film (5:35), reads the NY Times article “The Pitchers Whose Spin Rates Fell Most After a Crackdown on Sticky Substances” (7:54), and reviews Tommy Edman (23:20).

5.20 talks obligatory ASG stuff (0:40), chants Bucks in 6 (2:37), performs a mid-season RP redraft (5:06), and reviews Didi Gregorius (18:47).

5.19 welcomes the MLB halfway mark (0:43), kicks around the Euro 2020 played in 2021 finals (4:36), bounces around the ‘21 NBA finals (6:42), wades through MLB lineup updates (8:02), and reviews Brandon Crawford (17:37).

5.18 peruses the MLB league leaders (0:40), notes all the concurrent sport abounding (4:46), tosses TGFBI stats into a correlation matrix (6:40), and reviews Marcus Semien (23:33).

5.17 ponders the MLB ASG (0:38), notes the temperature of Euros picks (3:09), finishes Fall of Gondolin (4:39), compares preseason IP projections with on track numbers (8:54), applies the IP comparison for Closers (15:44), and reviews Manny Machado (25:22).

5.16 ponders the dearth of MLB storylines (0:39), bounces around some NBA playoffs (2:47), flips through the Fall of Gondolin (4:49), works through some lineup analysis by evaluating lineup similarities across the season (9:03), and reviews Carlos Correa (19:01).

5.15 wades through the MLB scoreboards (0:39), kicks around some Euro action (2:32), opens The Fall of Gondolin (5:30), works through attacking mid-season batting average adjustments (7:45), and reviews Josh Rojas (20:19).

5.14 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:37), procures “The Fall of Gondolin” (3:14), poses a prompt: state 5 potential “keepers” who are under 27 but not on the radar last year (4:51), and reviews Dansby Swanson (19:38).