Fantasy Toolz Podcast

1.18 pours over the '17 all-star selections (0:40), brandishes with alacrity an obtuse argument about fantasy vocabulary (2:25), checks the pulse of pre-season stolen base analysis (5:55), drinks from the game logs fire hose (18:16), gut checks Harry Potter primary source rankings (29:20), and wraps with a poky review (31:49).

Episode 1.17 picks apart the newest GoT trailer (0:40), waxes poetic about a fantasy birthday (1:57), pours over the MLB standings (3:00), banters about a frozen treat in Atlanta (4:45), pitches the idea of a pitching faWAR model (6:43), revisits the early season Ks analysis (18:50), gets excited about the NBA draft results (29:20), and ends on a review that’s best up in the air (32:02).

Episode 1.16 basks in the glory of Prince Night (0:40), admires the fashionability of the Washington Senators’ hats (3:00), applies some faWAR (fantasy wins above replacement) metric cleaning (5:12), creeps on some minor leaguers (18:05), banters about the NHL draft (28:37), and ends on a berry unexpected review (30:28).

Episode 1.15 evaluates sith inspired Patriots memes (0:40), banters about their trade deadline (2:25), owns up to an ownership model oversight (5:26), presents the eHR (expected home run) predictive model (15:10), rages against the dying of the NBA finals (27:20), and ends with a local review (29:46).

Episode 1.14 ponders algorithm bounties (0:39), questions the importance of the Volquez no-hitter (2:05), adds some new Tolkien to the reading list (4:07), applies PCA (Principle Component Analysis) in the quest for Bastardos (6:05), revisits the runs forecasting work (17:37) and speculates on a few Runs based player targets (26:54), snoozes through some NBA Finals banter (31:04), and ends with a...

Episode 1.13 talks body slamming (0:37), extols the new GoT trailer (1:35), poses new over/unders (5:33) for a few perplexing pitchers (6:00) and a few head-scratching hitters (14:06) from a recent clustering update, peeks in the bet box (19:12), bats around some MLB topics (32:46), reports news from Jupiter (34:46), and ends on a ballpark staple (36:06).

Episode 1.12 explores the utility and beauty of locks on our Nation's waterways (0:40), plays with the concept of toxic assets in fantasy (3:30), tackles the elephant in the room: the DL (5:12), waxes poetic about pitch level stat stabilization using statcast data (14:58), poses potential Minnesota road trips (25:40), fights THE narrative dominating the NBA playoffs (27:20), and ends on a perplexi...

Episode 1.11 basks in the glory of live baseball (0:39), confronts GRRM’s blog post about spin offs (2:33), coerces fantasy stats into growth charts (5:27), fires up the statcast analysis engine to look at stat stabilization (16:27), predicts the outcome of Wiz/Cs game 7 and worries about the NBA lottery (29:47), conjectures about the correct times for jersey investment (30:31), and ends on a Frie...

Episode 1.10 ponders the possibilities posed by the GoT spinoffs (0:39), welcomes newly anointed white walker hitters (3:03), dips a foot into machine learning and K-means clustering (4:42) by presenting pitching clusters (12:05), forecasts the numerator of the batting average equation (17:01) and continues the 4 player case study of LeMahieu, Beltre, Altuve, & Trout from 1.09 (22:00), banters abo...

Episode 1.09 celebrates recent toolz success (0:42), shoots through a few outlier hitters (2:30), dips a toe into some machine learning algorithms in the guise of K-means clustering (5:29) by presenting 7 GoT themed hitter clusters (9:41), forecasts a key piece of the batting average equation (18:38) including a 4 player case study of LeMahieu, Beltre, Altuve, & Trout (25:38), rewinds the award wi...

Episode 1.08 savors mesobreweries (0:40), bangs through a few topical pitching quandaries (2:21), talks league evaluation spreadsheet tools (6:15) and the mechanics of automating the collection and presentation of league stats (9:56), waxes poetic about saves forecasting (16:45) and closer archetypes (21:59), presents a midweek bet box entry (29:30), delves into the NBA playoffs (30:53), and ends...

Episode 1.07 scrutinizes the Last Jedi trailer (0:42), reintroduces the Bastardo Strategy (5:03), forecasts RBIs (19:39), ponders wildlife’s place at ballparks (28:39), and ends on a dish best served messy (29:43).

Episode 1.06 suppresses nascent Corey Dickerson attraction (0:38), contemplates Tony Romo’s future (1:54), anticipates non-CGI Leia (3:33), urges everyone to keep the first week in perspective (4:47), investigates the mystery of ERA (17:48) while offering some regression candidates (21:48), reprises the highly anticipated weather segment (27:39), and ends on a fishy debate (29:07).

Episode 1.05 plans a trip to Vegas (0:38), contemplates the implications of the new GoT trailer (2:14), continues the ADP (average draft position) analysis (4:23) with some season over/unders (8:12), worships at the altar of the king of stats - homers (15:09), plans statcasting optimal home run catching seats (24:49), reprises the highly touted soccer segment (26:00), and ends with some crock-pot...

Episode 1.04 mourns the passing of a New English staple(0:41), gets Patriotic comparing WBC to a 12-team mixed league(1:17), contemplates prospect drafting(3:19), tackles the positional scarcity myth(5:03), forecasts WHIP(17:12), connects baseball to feline complications(28:31), and ends on a red smile inducing morsel(29:44).

1.03 uncovers some nerdy references on the internet (0:39), argues about late round upside pitchers (3:08), hits one into the middle infield banter (5:20), pits the toolz against one another in a 1v1 fantasy challenge (10:44), strategizes stolen base optimization (14:38), and wraps with a surprisingly unsalted conversation (29:40).

1.02 scrutinizes the new GoT teaser (0:43), pits aging fantasy stalwarts against each other (2:30), forecasts Wins (6:15), promotes some new draft evaluation techniques (18:37), and wraps with a spongy sweet review (37:35).

Episode 1.01 has the toolz reading some large, friendly letters when confronted with web scraping. They contemplate the Sloan Conference (0:40), tiptoe back from the Price-ledge (1:35), evangelize the scripting language Python (3:44), scrutinize the wisdom of crowds through ADP (average draft position) (5:23), make some inferences about run projections (16:53), and wrap the pod (28:35) to end with...

Episode 1.00 finds the toolz peering at the upcoming MLB season giddily. They extol the start of their league's rolling draft (0:40), wonder at Betances' public flogging (3:00), provide a bit of narrative background about the pod (4:10), prophesize K totals (12:43), and wrap the pod (24:03) to end on a sticky review session (27:21).

Episode 0.34 sets its sights on 2017 and sees the end of season 0.

Episode 0.33 pours some out for the loss of a legend, the end of the year, and some wayward Blue Jays.