Fantasy Baseball Discussions by Fantasy Toolz

Fantasy Toolz Podcast

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To quote Dr. Evil, "The details of our lives are quite inconsequential." What's important is that we like fantasy, as it applies to the genre and the game derived from baseball statistics. We also enjoy developing analytical and computational “tools” for supporting the latter habit. Our goal is to share our fantasy baseball tools with a little help from the fantasy genre for context, allusion, and (fire and) ice breaking. In doing so, we hope to broaden the way our audience approaches fantasy baseball. Our podcast presents our methods to the public in the spirit of OpenSource - through freely...

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Fantasy Baseball Discussions by Fantasy Toolz

Episodes

Episode 1.04 - Anticipating Feline Complications 29.03.2017 33:24

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).

Episode 1.03 - It's Treason Then 22.03.2017 33:53

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).

Episode 1.02 - The Great War 15.03.2017 37:36

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 - Don't Panic. 08.03.2017 34:06

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 - Ed Vanders Wand Emporium 01.03.2017 31:20

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 - A Bruise is a Lesson 15.02.2017 35:18

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

Episode 0.33 - Well-Mannered Frivolity 12.01.2017 32:41

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