Fantasy Toolz Podcast

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).

3.20 exalts Coco (0:37), sifts through the Kawhi news (2:04), talks TGFBI strategy (4:48), workshops what needs to be in an automated pitcher report (15:56), and reviews Victor Robles (21:55).

3.19 remembers Skaggs (0:42), bats around Twins’ All-Stars nods (1:55), scrapes some MiLB data for second half adds (5:20), works through an example looking for speed (11:58), and reviews Bryan Reynolds (21:54).

3.18 admires Mazara’s massive homer (0:38), wades through the Montas news (2:31), researches Sox/Yanks in London (3:42), revisits kPitching (5:05), runs through some kPitching player examples (15:35), and reviews David Dahl (24:04).

3.17 tosses around some Twins topics (0:37), brainstorms a possible Psi-Phi novel setting (3:17), tackles a new statcast analysis avenue: foul balls (5:15), goes through some example hitters looking at launch angle to launch speed while highlighting foul balls (17:58), and reviews Marcell Ozuna (24:44).

3.16 bounces around some Durant thoughts (0:39), gives Solo another shot (1:20), hits some MLB topics (3:04), tackles Batting Order for fantasy category stat production (7:00), brainstorms which data sources highlight manager effects on a roster (21:13), and reviews Alex Verdugo (25:11).

3.15 works through the Champions League Final (0:38), tackles global A4 utilization (1:41), jumps back into Westworld (3:59), presents a Bayesian modeling hitter application that compares RBI/R/HR ratios by PA (5:40), examines the ownership of some example players from the model who have low HR & R but high RBI (13:26), and reviews Michael Brantley (23:10).

3.14 theorizes writing Fantasy in Hobbiton (0:40), contemplates a petition for removing the GoT producers from future Star Wars projects (2:14), bounces around some NBA finals (3:41), picks sides on 5 proposed Mike trades (5:27), picks sides on 5 proposed Erich trades (16:21), and reviews two Rangers Outfielders (28:06).

3.13 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:40), puts a bow on GoT (2:06), frames a new large project: a holistic economic model for fantasy baseball (4:28), creates a TGFBI FAAB scraping tool (16:33), and reviews Max Kepler and Jeff McNeil (23:35).

3.13.1 finds catharsis with GoT episode 8.6.

3.12 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:39), creates a correlation matrix of all the TGFBI scoring categories (3:59), tackles some recent risers & fallers in Fantasy Baseball ownership (11:38), and skips the review session for next week (19:33).

3.12.1 serves some GoT episode 8.5 reactions.