Fantasy Toolz Podcast

3.11 tackles the Tolkien movie (0:41), wades through the Royal Baby betting markets (2:20), scrutinizes ownership (4:01), peruses some example ownership quandaries using growth charts & longitudinal ownership curves (11:55), and reviews Juan Soto (20:43).

3.11.1 addresses GoT episode 8.4 and makes some predictions

3.10 delves into the TGFBI standings (0:38), opens the bet box for: resolved bets (3:43); heading towards resolved bets (7:40); medium-term & long-term bets (11:07), and reviews Chad Pinder (24:15). [Apologies for the skipping near the end of the pod, we’ll get back to base camp one of these days]

3.10.1 peers into the darkness that was GoT episode 8.3.

3.09 opens with a note to catch the pod special on GoT 8.2 (0:38), bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:46), talks through the meta-game of TGFBI through 4 weeks (3:34), discusses Toolz progress [& lack thereof] in TGFBI (17:18), and reviews Jackie Bradley Junior (26:14). [Apologies for the coughing]

3.09.1 puts the Fantasy back into Fantasy Toolz with GoT episode 8.2 breakdown and 8.3 postulation.

3.08 notes the pod special covering Star Wars & GoT (0:40), jumps into a statcast data primer (1:45), ponders some outliers (11:45), and reviews Cody Bellinger (21:24).

3.07.1 rises into some Star Wares IX teaser talk (0:17) and explores GoT episode 8.1 (5:45).

3.07 reminds everyone about the wonders of checking your own work (0:42), tackles rounding 0.5 in modeling (2:58), numerically identifies Bastardos from week 1 data (5:29), begins the development of a scraping library (18:35) while presenting a quick RP application(21:58), and reviews Eddie Rosario (25:24).

3.06 experiments with a road pod recording in the same room (0:56), bounces around some NBA topics (1:50), reprises the great Word Series wager from 2018 (2:37), bats around some early season MLB story lines including Franco, Merrifield, Holland, Domingo, Padres, AJ10 (4:16), runs through some thoughts after going to a Yankees/Orioles game (13:05), and reviews Dee Gordon (20:35).

3.05 heralds baseball’s official return (0:39), announces the release date for the 2nd Book of Dust (5:04), expounds on the week’s algorithm club topic: Artificial Neural Networks (3:28), bounces around some players who are “unpredictable” that can be used during validation of predictive models (12:34), and reviews Tommy Pham (22:58).

3.04 contemplates the Operation Varsity Blues scandal (0:37), takes off into the Max 8 skies (2:18), reminds everyone about the Japan games (3:18), bats around some late-round fantasy draft strategy (5:08), ponders some late-round upside hitter examples (17:17), glances at the case for old guys (21:31), and reviews Adam Jones (26:30).

3.03 visits Westeros through the newest GoT Season 8 trailer (0:40) rejoices new baseball highlights (2:56), bats around some injury drafting game theory (3:47), presents an Algorithm Club mission statement (7:42), expounds on the week’s topic: Gaussian Mixture Models (10:24) by getting into a TGFBI draft based application (14:03), and reviews Lorenzo Cain (23:22).

3.02 glances at a few MLB articles (0:39), exalts the marriage of His Dark Materials & HBO (3:39), bats around some drafting strategy (5:07), outlines how fantasy drafts progress in different archetypal categories (13:45), and reviews George Springer (26:09).

3.01 peeks at Rex Chapman’s Twitter account (0:40), brews an AeroPress review (1:59), notes that drafts are live with thoughts on TGFBI, the home league, & simultaneous slow drafts (4:54) including a live pick (8:10), drafts some algorithms for the second installment of algorithm club (15:20), and reviews Justin Upton (22:13).

3.00 tackles the TGFBI wrinkle ‘KDS’ (0:40), reintroduces ourselves (4:41) while sketching out season 3 (7:35), models optimal targets for full season stat totals (13:50), and reviews Ronald Acuna Jr. (26:36).

2.51 welcomes the arrival of pitchers & catchers (0:40), mentions the GoT catch-up schedule (1:27), bounces around some NBA topics (1:55), presents some rankings model updates (5:03), examines sample rankings anomalies (14:11) falling just short of presenting ninety-five theses, previews some changes coming in season 3 (23:36) including a change to the review sessions, and reviews Toy Story (26:31...

2.50 ogles at the TGFBI league assignments & data prospects (0:40), bats around some MLB player moves (2:07), exalts our new, live projections (4:46), picks at a few example projections (15:52), tackles the Super Bowl (23:50), and reviews Wizard People, Dear Reader (27:37).

2.49 welcomes a few TGFBI invite emails (0:39), bats around a few MLB player moves (1:45), throws some dirt on the grave of Python 2.7 (3:41), presents a starting pitcher forecasting model for Fantasy Baseball (4:41), flags some model forecasts (15:49), makes some Big Game predictions (25:43), and reviews Shaun of the Dead (26:56).

2.48 bats around some MLB players on the move (0:39), presents their groundbreaking cluster tree (4:58), slams in some projections planning (16:11), crashes into some NFL banter (22:25), and reviews The Fifth Element (25:23).

2.47 tackles the first GoT 8 teaser trailer release (0:40), analyzes the situation in Washington (2:05), presents innovations in pitcher clustering (5:06), continues evolving the pitching clusters by looking at them for Save & Win predictions (14:34), orders up some Star Wars chatter at the cantina (23:09), and reviews Episode III (26:41).

2.46 dissects GoT season 8 teaser footage (0:40), doinks into some NFL playoff conversation (2:27), bats around pitching cluster development thoughts about using and not using ratio stats (4:36), gazes at the wonder of no ratio pitching clusters (15:49), proposes a “convenient excuse” regarding the TWolves (22:32), and reviews Shrek (25:12).

2.45 wishes everyone a Happy New Year & critiques EoY review articles (0:43), notes the end of the NFL regular season (2:29), discusses choosing the right number of clusters in a clustering analysis (5:16), determines that including OBP in place of BA creates very different clusters (16:03), crosses over into an AI update (24:24), and reviews Apollo 13 (27:38).

2.44 wishes everyone Happy Holidays (0:40), revels in the dropkick in the Seahawks game & other NFL matter (1:54), bats around some fantasy rule change banter (4:40) twice (15:12), checks the NBA beat pulse (24:46), and reviews Sherlock Season 1 (26:12).

2.43 ponders the Vikings playoff chances (0:40), considers Mortal Engines (3:00), presents a multiyear clustering exercise (4:53), contemplates some example longitudinal clustering results (14:20), scrutinizes the Rule 5 draft results (23:49), and reviews Armageddon (25:47).