Fantasy Toolz Podcast

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).

Don't worry, our Children of Hurin conversation went deep and discursive. Most of our conversation ended on the cutting room floor. Here it is. Listen at your own peril.

5.13 broaches how the Rays keep winning (0:37), lingers on Bobby Witt (2:25), concludes Children of Hurin (4:10), bats around some FAAB analysis in TGFBI (10:53), and reviews Javier Baez (22:38).

5.12 evaluates the results of the full season NBA O/U challenge (0:37), opens Children of Hurin (5:20), peeks at TGFBI (8:48), and reviews Gleyber Torres (16:42).

5.11 notes the Red Sox surge (0:40), mourns the departure of Daren Willman for a Rangers front office job (2:34), takes a first look at the House of the Dragon (3:56), flips through the pages of Children of Hurin (5:54), compares forecasted IPs with on pace numbers (7:40), and reviews Isiah Kiner-Falefa (19:24).

5.10 bats around some TGFBI (0:38), presents the next Fantasy Book Club feature: Children of Hurin (3:44), compares pre-season PA projections vs pace (6:29), and reviews Tim Anderson (20:56).

5.09 sums the parts of TGFBI teams (0:35), notes that bad teams are doing well in the AL (5:20), rights the pitching ship by talking through 6 pitchers identified through algorithms (8:03), and reviews Corey Seager (23:06).

5.08 checks some COVID concerns (0:39), hits on Rodon’s no-hitter (3:51), pours over the LoTR show budget (5:20), talks trouble in TGFBI (8:20), and reviews Adalberto Mondesi (18:03).

5.07 talks through the COVID19 IL (0:38), peeks at the Indiana Jones V news (2:34), opens the bet box (4:59), and reviews Myles Straw (22:06).

5.06 welcomes baseball back by batting around some banter (0:39), notes the release of the Obi Wan series cast (3:13), squashes some batting order bugs (5:20), and reviews Xander Bogaerts (17:29).

5.05 bats around some injury news (0:37), ponders whether DC & Marvel news bears discussion (4:24), presents the batting order algorithm mentioned in 5.04 (7:34), and reviews Bo Bichette (23:07).

5.04 validates picks through some spring training clip viewing (0:41), visits the first age by completing Beren and Lúthien (3:20), presents some guys highlighted through rough algorithms (5:30), and reviews Francisco Lindor (24:43).

5.03 celebrates their completion of TGFBI drafts (0:40), bats around some spring training reactions (4:35), rifles through Beren and Lúthien (6:57), presents a synthetic drafting model (10:52), and reviews Mauricio Dubon (21:08).

5.02 picks at some TGFBI picks (0:40), self-identifies favorite pick/worst pick so far (1:49), poses a new book club target: Beren and Lúthien (8:46), wanders through global ADP trends in TGFBI (11:39), makes a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) model of the TGFBI draft that answers the question: when will this guy be available (14:43), and reviews Trevor Story (19:35).

5.01 extols the return of baseball highlights (0:39), welcomes draft day in TGFBI (2:04), presents some visual aids for our forecast methodology (6:55), and reviews Trea Turner (16:17).