Fantasy Toolz Podcast

1.42 wishes everyone a Happy New Year (0:42), proposes a book club (2:49), debates thank you note writing (3:25), contemplates offseason baseball stats (4:31), sketches out 2018 pod plans (14:23), wraps the 2017 NFL season (25:50), and rolls up a raw debate (30:41).

1.41 wishes everyone a Merry Happy (0:39), examines the NBA’s marriage to Christmas (2:00), struggles through a lean Fantasy Baseball news week (5:29), contemplates the ‘super seven’ concept (9:28), analyzes the distribution of global MLB hitting stats for Fantasy (14:31), throws water on the Vikings’ SB odds (24:22), says so long to the 747 (25:38), and fudges a review (27:28).

1.40 contemplates Kobe retiring two numbers (0:38), mulls Peter Jackson’s newest venture (2:10), debates MLB Winter Meetings player moves (3:52), deep dives on Star Wars Episode VIII (19:05), theorizes whether MSP will be ready for the Super Bowl (27:08), and ends with a caning (30:40).

1.39 breathes a sigh of relief that the Sloan Sports Analytics paper was submitted (0:39), considers MinneAnalytics Sportcon (3:06), ponders getting back into Fantasy shape (4:31) by discussing player moves (4:44) & what the pod can do for general fantasy preparation (15:24), blows off some Star Wars anticipation steam (21:14), and ends on a review that has everyone seeing red (24:33).

1.38 scrutinize the '18 Hall of Fame ballot (0:39), draft Ohtani landing spots (3:14) & notable free agent closer options (4:49), hold a Sloan Sports Analytics Conference manuscript writing project meeting (6:54), chew on some food for thought GC topics (15:40), banter about Twins & Sox off-seasons (24:40), take umbridge with Mpls Lakers throwback jerseys (27:15), and end on a tart review (28:22).

1.34.1 extends our Star Wars conversation from podcast 1.34 - skip over to 2:41 for new audio.

1.37 huddles round the hot stove (0:40), returns to Middle Earth (3:11), slings some growth chart development theory (6:39), scrutinizes age-based growth charts (14:48), bats around some Fantasy Football topics (25:19), and ends on a spicy debate (30:24).

1.36 celebrates the boys in orange (0:40), analyzes the Curse-shaw (1:36), snickers at the MLB awards finalists (3:25), contemplates MLB transaction logs (6:00), disaggregates the growth charts by position (14:39), considers discussing Stranger Things (23:15), prognosticates the 21st Century Fox acquisition (25:03), and ends on a layered debate (25:47).

1.35 wades through World Series topics(1:24), postulates ways of accounting for the DL in our growth charts (10:58), brainstorms some d3 for plotting our growth charts (18:13), dissects ‘Truly Madly Deeply’ (24:17), and ends on the great trick-or-treat candy debate (25:50).

1.34 reignites the Star Wars passion (0:40), bats around some World Series narratives (3:07), fawns over a Flower (5:28), plans the scope of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference manuscript writing project (7:20), brainstorms some visualization options and techniques (20:34), assesses the MLB manager tango (28:03), looks over the Golden Company’s payroll (29:50), and ends on a fruity debate (31:27...

1.33 concludes BoJack season 4 by discussing 4.11 & 4.12 (0:40), bats around some AL playoff topics (3:18), kicks off the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference manuscript writing process by diving into some Project Management (6:26), designs the growth curves (18:39) while searching for Mr. 50 [per]Cent (20:38), bats around some NL playoff topics (25:58), and ends on a sticky palm debate (30:02).

1.32 examines BoJack 4.09 & 4.10 (0:40), compares dragons across Fantasyverses (4:09), starts the 2018 12 team ranking process (6:12) for round 5 (8:00), round 4 (11:07), round 3 (13:06), round 2 (18:50), round 1 (21:27), ponders the new Blade Runner (25:47), celebrates the long and winding road ahead towards the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (28:05), and ends on a wild debate (30:09).

1.31 congratulates everyone for another happy Fantasy season (0:39), considers the MLB playoffs (1:38), bats around some Fantasy Baseball stretch stories (3:00), admits the pod’s worst calls (5:33), celebrates the pod’s best calls (16:42), pours some out for the NFL season (28:04), hits repeat on the BoJack banter (30:25), and ends on a hot, breakfast, debate (32:06).

1.30 bats around some MLB topics (0:39), considers Fantasy MVP suspects (6:08), deliberates on Fantasy Cy Young candidates (17:14), brings back the acclaimed BoJack fawning segment (26:58), and ends on a simmering debate (28:51).

1.29 pops some champagne for MLB teams clinching playoff spots (0:40), discusses losing graciously (1:49), complains about west coast sporting event air times (3:37), pits preseason fantasy experts against the unwashed masses (5:21), puts some numbers to last week’s Game Theory primer (17:24), dips a toe into the flood of NFL consciousness (28:10), digests a disturbing BoJack trend (29:53), and en...

1.28 peeks at the MLB standings (0:40), picks apart Bojack 4.1 & 4.2 (2:04), provides some playoff pitching advice for a listener (4:56) while suggesting a few Bastardo targets (15:04), peers at the bottomless depths of game theory applications for fantasy (17:56), punts around some NFL week 1 topics (29:51), and proselytizes a holy triumvirate (31:32).

1.27 rekindles old feelings for Star Wars (0:40), bats around some MLB topics (2:05), presents a draft abstract (for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference) regarding the growth chart platform (4:39), workshops a second abstract for Sloan regarding fantasy ownership models (18:05), gathers for some Magic talk (29:44), readies for opening day in the NFL (30:50), and ends on a sauer debate (32:50).

1.26 dives into GoT for the last time in a long time (0:40), proposes new fantasy & shows to obsess over (4:25), pokes at the relationship between doubles and homers by postulating that doubles are just failed homers (6:55), doubles up the doubles talk by postulating that doubles age into homers over a career (19:05), looks askance at Fantasy Football (30:55), bats around some banter on the player...

1.25 reflects on the GoT 7.6 over/unders (0:37), waxes poetic about a few GoT topics (2:36), poses GoT 7.7 over/unders (5:08), reevaluates the draft (6:33), applies the age curve work done on pitchers to hitters (19:44), banters about a special corona (30:42), and ends on a nutty debate (33:04).

1.24 congratulates one of the Toolz on making the playoffs (0:39), examines GoT 7.5 (1:25), poses GoT 7.6 over/unders (5:28), reflects & collects on the 2B v SS side bet (7:36), talks pitching match-ups & run differentials (18:52), bats around some astro. topics (29:50), and ends on a hole debate (32:17).

1.23 recovers from the Toolz' recent Baseball stadium tour antics (0:39), considers GoT 7.4 while simultaneously forecasting 7.5 (2:05), posits that rolling 3-week linear regression models can describe the trajectory of a player by statistic (6:06), introduces a new scraping tool and presents a few potential applications (18:43), banters about branding New England staples (29:14), and ends on perp...

1.22 hits into a triple play discussion (0:39), strikes up a GoT 7.3 conversation (1:54), touches on some trade fallout (3:49), peruses some park effects info (5:45), engages the autocorrelation elephant in the room (20:28), honors a future HoFer (32:35), and ends on a sodium fueled debate (34:33).

1.21 bats around some GoT Episode 7.2 talking points (0:38), opens the inbox to find a listener question (5:46), characterizes mid-tier pitching replacement strategies using the Fantasy Tools Toolbox (7:47), starts a dialogue about pitch level statcast data (20:09), scrutinizes the iPhone news alert mechanism (28:08), contemplates some MLB topics (29:35), and ends on a lean debate (31:58).

1.20 argues the results of GoT 7.1 predictions (0:40), holds a nose at catcher strategery (4:48), presents growth in the growth chart work (18:40), recalls the ASG induced fantasy delirium tremens (29:08), bats around some MLB topics (30:11), and ends on a wrap (31:13).

1.19 makes GoT 7.1 predictions (0:40), bats around some screwball MLB topics (3:54), dives deep on three pitchers (6:36) including Kershaw (7:30), Kluber (10:44), & Tywin (13:58), contemplates three hitters including Zimmerman (17:55), Bellinger (22:25), & Correa (25:25), ponders the Home Run derby (28:33), and ends on a review that falls flat (30:27).