Fantasy Toolz Podcast

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.

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).