Fantasy Toolz Podcast

2.17 peers at the World Cup action (0:39), bats around some MLB topics (2:27), ponders the conundrum: so you want to sell high (5:04) and presents some potential sell high batters (13:26), celebrates Father’s Day with Westworld (23:26), and reviews Willy Wonka (25:38).

2.16 drops into Westworld (0:40), fawns over the immaculate inning (2:23), announces the GoT spinoff (4:08), ponders the conundrum: So you want to plan for keepers? (5:20), floats some potential keepers (15:37), imagines ‘The Decision 2.0’ (26:00), and ends with a review of Fahrenheit 451 (27:43).

2.15 reports the versioning news of the day (0:40), takes the pulse of the dark v. light roast debate (2:39), ponders the conundrum: so you want to make a trade (4:54), presents a basic trade evaluator model (17:02), glances at the news from Westworld (24:48), and ends with a review of the Two Towers (25:43).

2.14.1 extends our Star Wars conversation from podcast 2.14 and discusses Westworld. Caution: this is very unpolished and we go deep.

2.14 pits theoretical universe expansion options against one another (0:39), recognizes a week of bad beats for the Toolz in Fantasy (1:50), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t Run (4:36), applies the growth chart model from season 1 to 2018 Run data (12:34), shoots through other news in Sport (27:54), and ends with a review of Solo… kind of (29:26).

2.13 drops into Shogun World (0:41), tackles the Laurel Yanni debate (3:36), scrutinizes longitudinal CBS player ownership data (5:12), examines ESPN ownership trends (18:04), peruses the NBA happenings (28:48), and reviews Fellowship (30:21).

2.12 wonders at the legalization of sports gambling (0:40), drops into Westworld (1:48), complains about recent DL moves (4:15), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t K (6:10), builds a few linear regression models for K based stats (14:35), glances at the EPL news (28:43), and reviews Goldeneye (30:24).

2.11 drops into Westworld (0:41), bats around some miscellaneous baseball talking points (2:08), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t have power (5:10), builds optimistic machine learning home runs model (17:12), bounces into some NBA playoff thoughts (26:44), and reviews HP6 (28:36).

2.10 visits Westworld 2.01 and 2.02 (0:39), analyzes a figure relating Ks/Hs/BBs/HRs (1:20), premieres a new segment: random hitters doing well (2:43), introduces the conundrum: so your team doesn’t win average (5:14), reviews batting average work done in season 1 (15:18), peeks at the TGFBI standings (22:39), chats about the ‘18 NBA playoffs (24:21), and ends with a review of Jurassic Park (25:17...

2.09 visits Milwaukee (0:40), works through the ‘18 NBA first round playoffs (1:48), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t get wins (3:51), dips into some new machine learning with tensorflow (16:02), scrutinizes predicting outcomes through the assessment of random betting markets (26:01), assesses FiveThiryEight’s article about late inning favorable ball and strike calls (27:33), and ends w...

2.08 celebrates Joe Mauer’s fantasy irrelevant achievement (0:41), rants about the new MLB TV ad paradigm (2:30), discusses MLB action in the PR & snow (3:21), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t get saves (5:03), presents the beta version of the relief report (16:06), bounces around some NBA playoff talk (22:36), and ends with the great IJ3 review (25:39).

2.07 scrutinizes the achievement of hitting the cycle (0:42), acknowledges the new Solo trailer (2:50), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t steal bases (5:02), jumps into Monte Carlo in search of legitimate stolen bases (16:05), notes the impending NBA playoffs (25:45), and ends with a review of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (27:28).

2.06 celebrates baseball’s return (0:39), peeks in the bet box (2:23), gets into fantasy add/drops by examining ownership data (4:58), performs player spot checks with publicly available ownership data (17:46), scrutinizes what other sport is occurring (24:42), and ends with a review of Spaceballs (26:39).

2.05 gets ready for baseball with some MLB thoughts (0:42) & picks RoY candidates (3:25), gets into fantasy with some roster management deep thoughts (5:28), dusts off the growth chart & Bastardo work (16:38), pontificates about the best John Williams song (23:35), celebrates all the sport happening (26:02), and reviews Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (27:40).

2.04 analyzes the Cambridge Analytica story (0:42), tackles the 2018 NCAA madness (2:08), peeks at THE BAT projection system (3:21), ponders the DL (5:02), runs through some DL themed over/unders (14:06), runs through some NFL chatter (24:56), and ends with a review of Back to the Future (26:55).

2.03 covers the MLB news of the day (0:37), touches TGFBI topics (2:57), gets into roster construction (4:42), presents hitting archetypes as a vehicle for analyzing draft trends (14:44), busts into some bracket jabber (27:21), and reviews Goldfinger (29:40).

2.02 banters about The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational (0:40), bats around some hot MLB topics (2:20), gets into fantasy with draft preparation musings (5:28), peers at Google News results (19:04), ponders Sherlock characters (28:06), and ends on a review of 300 (29:15).

2.01 reviews the @darenw stats by state series (0:40), notes that the Silmarillion is free for prime Amazonians (1:58) , gets into fantasy with understanding rankings (5:12), evaluates the ADP lag argument (16:05), announces the recent LoMo move (24:51), tackles AI for sports analysis (25:38), and ends on a review of The Matrix (28:10).

2.00 dives into the Ray Tank (0:41), glances at recent player movement including JD Martinez (2:47) & Eric Hosmer (3:42), lays out the season’s aim & mission statement (5:58), lays out the season’s theme: Getting into Fantasy (13:06), complains about ESPN for being behind on the fantasy baseball front (23:58), wonders at the new MLB pace of play rules (25:32), presents the new review session theme...

1.48 analyzes where Yu went (0:38) & whether late signing will impact other fantasy relevant free agents (1:07), gives PECOTA (2:16) and FiveThirtyEight a mention (3:00), brainstorms the next steps for the news scraping zeitgeist model (4:15), bids season 1 adieu (14:06), glances at keeper decisions (23:24), wonders at the “Hollywood” moniker for a handsome pitcher (26:17), and ends on an eggy deb...

1.47 finishes La Belle Sausage book club series (0:40), drops by Westworld (3:50), goes into Solo reflection (5:20), continues evaluating MLB player movement impacts on Fantasy value (7:22), runs through a keeper case study (17:39), tackles some SB topics (23:35), and ends on an evergreen millennial debate (26:47).

1.46 bids the Indians logo adieu (0:40), skates across the Thames through chapters 16-20 of La Belle Sausage (2:15), sketches out a model for determining MLB trade impacts on fantasy value (5:32), reprises the article review segment with some Brewers chatter (16:24), investigates Twitter bot acquisition (23:56), previews the final game of the NFL season (25:22), and ends on a creamy debate (27:39)...

1.45 laments the NFC championship results (0:39), posits a fantastical sports analytics topic (1:41), previews season 2’s “getting into fantasy” series by talking about types of fantasy (4:28), peeks at transaction logs for web scraping (19:20), reprises the award winning book club section with chapters 11-15 of La Belle Sausage (24:43), and ends by rolling up a fruity review (29:53).

1.44 tosses some kindling on the hot stove (0:38), continues the book club with chapters 6-10 of La Belle Sausage (2:14), reviews a fantasy baseball article (6:00), picks at some of statcast's fielding data (16:13), ponders the NFL playoffs (24:18), and jumps on a gravy train (27:04).

1.43 dives into book club discussion on chapters 1-5 of the Book of Dust Part 1 (0:38), glances at way too early fantasy player ranks (7:27), pads the bet box (15:20), inspects NFL playoffs week 1 (24:50), and provides a kit review (28:20).