Fantasy Toolz Podcast

4.28 tackles HDM 2.5 (0:37), grimaces at the EPL results (4:23), debates using pitch fingerprinting for projections (8:21), and reviews Anthony Bass (12:53).

4.27 wades through the new Star Wars content announcement (0:39), examines HDM 2.4 (3:58), kicks around some EPL (8:53), graphs heat maps of Ks & HRs over the pitch fingerprinting data (10:33), and reviews Jonathan Hernandez (20:33).

4.26 explores HDM 2.3 (0:37), revels in the StP Saints news (8:59), workshops some pitch fingerprinting oddities within the fourseamer data (12:12), and reviews Rafael Montero (23:26).

4.25 examines episode 2.2 of HDM (0:38), tackles some football (5:50), creates a corner plot of statcast pitching data (8:24), and reviews Hector Neris (21:53).

4.24 welcomes HDM’s second season (0:37), kicks around some EPL (6:44), seeks a question for pitch arsenal analysis (9:44), and reviews Daniel Hudson (16:04).

4.23 peers at the 2020 MLB awards (0:39), turns up the heat for a four-seamer discussion (4:40), and reviews Roberto Osuna (20:43).

4.22 kicks around some EPL (0:39), notes the return of HDM with season 2 (3:01), deep dives a few ‘sinkerball’ pitchers (4:26), and reviews Sergio Romo (23:32).

4.21 mourns the life of the first James Bond (0:39), kicks around some EPL (2:29), continues the saga of sinkers vs two-seamers (5:04), and reviews Wade Davis (20:13).

4.20 notes the auspicious pod number (0:38), bats around some Rays/Dodgers mid-World Series thoughts (0:52), breezes through the EPL table (2:12), scrutinizes the pitch fingerprinting PCA application by asking whether two-seam fastballs are sinkers (4:00), and reviews the Dodgers bullpen (19:02).

4.19 kicks around some EPL banter (0:38), bats around league championship notes while prepping for the World Series (1:54), eulogizes the Sloan paper that was not (5:56), chucks more data into the pitch fingerprinting PCA application (9:35), and reviews the Rays bullpen (20:50).

4.18 notes the moving back of big movie releases (0:38), celebrates the end of the NBA bubble (3:22), bats around the MLB playoffs (6:08), charts some next steps for the pitches by pitcher PCA application (10:54), and reviews the Atlanta bullpen (21:29).

4.17 walks through the MLB playoffs (0:41), kicks around some EPL (3:58), (w)raps on the TGFBI season (5:27), and reviews the Cards relievers: Giovanny Gallegos & Andrew Miller (18:42).

4.16 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:39), tackles the sad state of a few NFL teams (2:16), dives into the Fantasy Toolz bet box for some conclusions (4:40), and reviews Raisel Iglesias (19:09).

4.15 clenches for clinching season in the MLB (0:37), tackles some new Fantasy trailers (3:03), submits an abstract for the 2021 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference entitled “Consistency in uncertain times: the differences between the 2020 and 2019 MLB seasons are not affecting pitches.” (6:36), and reviews Jeremy Jeffress (20:37).

4.14 visits the Water Garden Keep (0:40), eulogizes ignominious ends in the home league (1:34), kicks around a touch of Football (5:18), discusses Sloan Sports Analytics Conference abstracts (7:15), and reviews Devin Williams (21:18).

4.13 peeks at the home league playoff situation (0:39), notes the coming of Fantasy Football season (2:49), bounces around the NBA playoffs (4:26), dusts off an old statistical graphing technique: the box & whisker plot through speed to pitch type analysis (9:14), and reviews Taylor Williams (24:33).

4.12 walks through the MLB standings (0:41), bats around some trade deadline talk (4:36), bounces around some NBA playoffs (9:00), charges through 5 Fantasy hitting category based over/unders (13:09), and reviews Liam Hendriks (31:50).

4.11 bats around some home league owned players (0:40), bounces around some other major sports (4:44), graphs launch angle as a function of launch speed with speed &outcome (9:06), workshops TGFBI teams based on a stat correlation matrix graph (14:32), and reviews Drew Pomeranz (23:41).

4.10 spots Thunderstorms in the UK (0:39), notes seeing games postponed for COVID-19 in the box scores (2:59), presents statcast scraping improvements through a pitch graph application (6:57), and reviews Trevor Gott (22:26).

4.09 finds that baseball continues (0:40), lightens the mood with some fantasy scraps about Dune (3:49), does some statcasting (7:36), and reviews Archie Bradley (20:50).

4.08 remarks on the feeling of seeing baseball in 2020 (0:39), muses about “Serpentine” & similar books in Fantasy (5:28), peeks at the TGFBI standings (8:43), inches the news scraper forward (11:02), puts spin rate into a graph (16:06), and reviews Kenley Jansen (25:04).

4.07 gets into the minutia of the MLB returning (0:38), peeks at the Python item on the 2020 to-do list (5:46), dusts off the Zeitgeist scraper (8:56), and reviews Kirby Yates (18:41).

4.06 tackles sourdoughing during pandemic (0:40), finds food in the NBA bubble (3:50), seeks answers to the question: who is on my team (9:06), and deteriorates into a closer conversation that ponders the realities of rostering teams during the pandemic (15:34).

4.05 alleges the return of Baseball (0:40), probes EuroVision Fire Saga (2:16), bounces around the return of sports (5:20), bats around some TGFBI preparation talk (10:17), and workshops a potentially impactful project: strength of schedule analysis (16:51).

4.04.1 knocks out some Westworld season 3 content covering 3.03 - 3.05. Will get back to Baseball and regular pods one day.