Fantasy Toolz Podcast

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).

5.00 welcomes everyone into season 5 with some player movement banter (0:40), checks in on the Mandalorian (4:27), gets into draft prep mode with some rankings updates (5:45), and reviews Fernando Tatis (20:23).

4.36 warms up around the hot stove (0:40), notes that TGFBI is back (5:41), kicks around some EPL (6:07), wraps up season 4 (8:09), and announces the season 5 review topic (20:14).

4.35.2 announces the last (aka, the chaff) in the closer review series (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more dated than others) (0:39), Joe Jimenez (2:29), Ian Kennedy (7:52), Trevor Gott (12:10), Taylor Williams (19:00), Jeremy Jeffress (23:12), Wade Davis (30:46), Sergio Romo (36:35), Daniel Hudson (40:23), Jonathan Hernandez (50:06), and Anthony Ba...

4.35.1 announces the second in the closer review series (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more dated than others) (0:39), Drew Pomeranz (1:50), Matt Barnes (5:12), Rafael Montero (12:05), Hector Neris (18:05), Alex Colome (24:19), Giovanny Gallegos (+ Andrew Miller) (29:39), Mark Melancon (+ATL bullpen) (37:49), Stefan Crichton (43:49), Archie Bradley...

4.35 announces a special pod series aggregating the closer reviews from the season (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more dated than others) (0:39), reviews in this pod include: Josh Hader (1:35), Liam Hendriks (8:20), Liam Hendriks AGAIN (12:59), Edwin Diaz (19:03), Aroldis Chapman (26:24), Raisel Iglesias (32:06), Kenley Jansen (41:40) + bullpen (46:...

4.34 bats around some MLB player movement (0:39), kicks around some football (3:10), presents Fantasy Toolz 2021 forecast rankings updates with new IP and PA assumptions (5:56), and reviews Stefan Crichton (20:28).

4.33 bats around the Springer to TO news (0:40), works through NFL playoffs storylines (2:51), kicks around some EPL (4:40), obtains IP & PA consensus projections for our 2021 Fantasy Baseball forecasting model (5:21), and reviews James Karinchak (17:31).

4.32 tackles the NFL divisional round (0:38), kicks around some EPL (3:02), pokes around the new 2021 pitcher forecasts (3:47), and reviews Mat Barnes (15:41).

4.31 tackles NFL playoffs (0:40), makes EPL predictions (3:08), plucks players from the news for spot checking the rankings (3:59), and reviews Edwin Diaz (17:46).

4.30 reviews the HDM season 2 finale (0:42), kicks around some EPL (6:30), inches the 2021 rankings forward through tinkering with 2020/2019 weights in the rankings model (9:40), and reviews Liam Hendriks (22:49).

4.29 finds HDM 2.6 (0:40), kicks through some EPL (4:09), reboots the rankings (5:55), and reviews Josh Hader (20:03).