Fantasy Toolz Podcast

3.41 puts a little code discussion on ice (0:41), discusses the genesis of ‘Anbaric Development Partners’ name (1:45), bats around some MLB player movement (2:23), ogles at some new corner plots (4:45), picks at paper writing minutiae(16:38), and reviews Mookie Betts (21:24).

3.40 sends everyone a Happy Thanksgiving (0:36), lingers beyond the WSJ paywall & talks SAT scores (1:06), walks through the projections modeling tuning for the Sloan paper (4:12), bats around some thoughts on the writing (18:20), and reviews Mike Trout (21:43).

We discuss HDM 0.3 and related matter.

We discuss HDM 0.2 at length

3.39 ponders what an MLB team would have to do to get a title vacated (0:39), binges & purges with some Vikings chatter (3:38), workshops some figures for the Sloan 2020 paper (5:50), graphs 2020 projections of all season 3 reviewed players (15:07), and reviews Rhys Hoskins (21:39).

We discuss HDM 0.1 and Book Club: The Secret Commonwealth Chapters[24:]

3.38 revels in the Brown is Back branding (0:39), feels the sudden culture overload between HDM/BoJack/Mandalorian/Podcasts/Silicon Valley (2:14), works through conflicting k determination methods for the k means clustering methods section of the Sloan 2020 paper (4:48), brainstorms the figures needed for the final paper (11:22), and reviews Shin-Soo Choo (23:13).

We discuss HDM 0.0 and Book Club: The Secret Commonwealth (Chapters 11-23).

3.37 announces a pod special for HDM related matter (0:40), enters the House of the Dragon (1:12), scrutinizes the London Series 2020 (2:49), does some Christmas shopping (3:22), scrums for the Sloan Research report (4:40) by discussing model progress (6:05) & documentation progress (15:27), and reviews JD Martinez (23:15).

3.36 glances at a flashing incident (0:39), book clubs The Secret Commonwealth 6-12 (2:07), announces a spot of Sloan 2020 news (6:57), bats around some project management planning (13:59), and reviews Josh Reddick (19:55).

3.35 bats around the prospect of an MiLB shakeup (0:37), starts the book club (3:19), sketches out the projection system workflow (6:42), runs Eddie Rosario through the workflow as an example (17:42), and reviews Adam Eaton (24:22).

3.34 bats around some random MLB playoff thoughts (0:39), unboxes The Secret Commonwealth (2:34), opens the Bet Box (4:16), and reviews Tommy Edman (24:08).

3.33 updates everyone on last year’s World Series bet (0:38), gripes about TNF (2:34), discusses some way too early hitter prediction results (4:15), pokes at some specific hitter prediction totals (15:38), and reviews Cameron Maybin (22:33).

3.32 acknowledges the end/beginning of the season (0:42), congratulates Todd Zola (2:10), peeks at TGFBI Toolz results (4:46), works off hangovers from successful(?) Sloan Sports Analytics Conference abstract submissions (15:24), and reviews Austin Meadows (22:17).

3.31 congratulates baseball in the Upper Midwest (0:40), peeks at the Premier League table (2:53), brainstorms Erich’s Sloan Conference abstract (5:23), and reviews Jorge Soler (17:14).

3.30* finds Far Side news (0:38), revisits Westeros (2:02), announces some ST Paul news (3:32), discusses MP's Sloan Conference abstract (4:45), and reviews Michael Conforto (20:53). *Special appearances from a Newfie and a Collie who both bumped, scratched, and barked throughout the pod.

3.29 welcomes back the NFL (0:42), ask “what’s up in TGFBI” for the Toolz (5:04), scrutinizes the TGFBI category stat correlation matrix (15:56), and reviews Starling Marte (23:13).

3.28 stresses about the MLB playoff seedings (0:37), stares down the barrel at a new NFL season (2:29), reviews the new review session format (4:40), provides a quick D3 website update (16:00), and reviews Ketel Marte (21:16).

3.27 celebrates the return of content with Star Wars news (0:40), scrutinizes the new Breaking Bad venture (4:03), works on the website (5:05), plots every hit at Target Field (13:00), and reviews Kevin Pillar (23:14).

3.26 rediscovers Google Trends data (0:41), employs some scraping for grabbing current TGFBI rosters (3:46), investigates similarities in roster construction across TGFBI (11:02), and reviews Aaron Judge (24:41).

3.25 punishes the new must add (0:42), peeks at the standings (1:52), glances at MLB attendance deltas (3:11), brainstorms SLOAN 2020 abstracts (4:49), posits the application of spatial autocorrelation on baseball fielded balls data (11:56), and reviews Hunter Renfroe (21:14).

3.24 bats around some TGFBI (0:41), predicts MLB Playoff seeding (1:55), digs through the top 15 pitchers (4:55), plots top 15 pitchers' pitches with spin rate as a function of speed (12:52), and reviews Leury Garcia (23:44).

3.23 hacks into a data theft story (0:40), tosses a Bauer segment out there (1:53), takes a gander at production in a team setting (4:00), synthesizes some case studies by looking for players on high production teams that are worth owning over standouts on low production teams (16:02), and reviews Ramon Laureano (23:49).

3.22 fields some Triple Play talk (0:38), finds the Westworld 3 Trailer (2:04), bales on some European Sport chatter (3:04), retroactively identifies which pitchers our pre-season projections predicted as potential kPitchers (5:23) then susses out potential outliers in the current crop of kPitchers based on our pre-season projections (11:45), and reviews Jesse Winker (24:39).

3.21 bats around some British sporting event news (0:40), scratches their heads over the ‘Current War’ advertising blitz in the UK (2:06), tackles Toolz preseason prediction validation (3:49), performs some prediction outlier case studies (15:26), and reviews Christian Yelich (23:50).