Fantasy Baseball Discussions by Fantasy Toolz
Fantasy Toolz Podcast
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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Jul 4, 2026
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Episodes
Episode 9.13 - Make It Stop 29.05.2025 35:29
9.13 performs some PCA while batting around some hot MLB starts (0:38), visits the last three episodes of Andor season 2 (6:00), diagnoses TGFBI futility (12:02), reviews Dylan Crews (22:25), and reviews MacKenzie Gore (27:46).
Episode 9.12 - Action Based Winning Percentage 20.05.2025 37:09
9.12 starts with the Twins streak (0:39), glances at the TGFBI standings (2:14), watches Andor 2.7-2.9 (4:41), continues modeling MLB outcomes through winning percentage forecasting (12:20), reviews James Wood (24:26), and reviews Jake Irvin (31:17).
Episode 9.11 - AI Working Autonomously 13.05.2025 33:17
9.11 resolves the KC K conundrum (0:40), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:59), watches some more Andor (4:47), continues the “so I asked chatGPT” series by pondering agentic AI (10:42), reviews Mark Vientos (20:15), and reviews Griffin Canning (26:56).
Episode 9.10 - How Many Ks 07.05.2025 29:54
9.10 reports on some baseball action (0:37), glances at TGFBI stamdings (4:13), watches Andor Season 2.1 & 2.2 (7:07), scrutinizes some batting order adjustments (11:53), reviews Zach McKinstry (17:11), and reviews Cole Ragans (23:26).
Episode 9.09 - Too Far Back 29.04.2025 35:43
9.09 debates some closer struggles (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:12), turns the wheel finishing WoT season 3 (4:08), notes what ails two underproducing TGFBI teams (7:50), reviews Spencer Torkelson (23:35), and reviews Tarik Skubal (29:21).
Episode 9.08 - He is an angel 22.04.2025 36:39
9.08 peeks at the MLB standings (0:38), winces at the TGFBI standings (3:49), turns the wheel with WoT 3.06 (5:18), formalizes a sketch model for forecasting rest of season stats (6:53), reviews Wilyer Abreu (21:16), and reviews Ryan Pepiot (27:44).
Episode 9.07 - Data Anomaly? No 08.04.2025 33:32
9.07 solves an MLB mystery (0:39), marvels at a new banner (1:45), notes the names of the top 5 hitters (2:56), peeks at the TGFBI rankings (5:33), turns the Wheel of Time 3.04 & 3.05 (6:55), checks the MLB o/u tracking mechanism (12:55), reviews Francisco Lindor (22:26), and reviews Sandy Alcantara (27:40).
Episode 9.06 - The Bats 31.03.2025 31:54
9.06 bats around the new bats (0:38), poses accountability in TGFBI (4:12), spins the Wheel of Time 3.03 (5:25), inventories the work the Toolz are doing that is available on GitHub (6:44), reviews Lawrence Butler (19:14), and reviews Bryan Woo (24:42).
Episode 9.05 - Changing of the Guard 24.03.2025 36:31
9.04 bounces around some MLB notes (0:39), turns the Wheel of Time with 3.02 (4:07), pulls out names of players who either jumped or fell in value when compared with pre-season 2024 rankings (7:54), reviews Spencer Steer (26:48), and reviews Bryce Miller (30:15).
Episode 9.04 - Democratizing Data 17.03.2025 35:26
9.04 bats around some MLB storylines from Tokyo to Strider (0:37), checks the TGFBI pulse (4:28), turns the wheel of time into season 3 (5:37), tries democratizing data by asking chatGPT about the TGFBI draft postmortem (8:02), reviews Xavier Edwards (24:56), and reviews Luis Castillo (30:09).
Episode 9.03 - Where’s the but? 10.03.2025 32:17
9.03 bats around some early spring training stories (0:38), fills in the blanks describing the TGFBI draft (3:18), sifts through the early returns from the spring training batting order scraping (6:43), reviews Adolis Garcia (18:20), and reviews Logan Gilbert (25:46).
Episode 9.02 - Lookin' For Knuckleballs 03.03.2025 34:23
9.02 finds some spring training storylines (0:39), asks ChatGPT for help converting forecasted 2025 stats into rankings (6:47), reviews Jurickson Profar (22:39), and reviews George Kirby (26:45).
Episode 9.01 - People Agree 24.02.2025 32:24
9.01 notes MLB teams for sale (0:38), welcomes all the spring training news (2:15), forecasts MLB pitchers using consensus expert IP projections focusing on pitcher 31-60 (5:22), reviews Jackson Chourio (20:08), and reviews Garrett Crochet (26:09).
Episode 9.00 - Mature 17.02.2025 33:40
9.00 scrutinizes PCA & Bregman (0:38), finds the start of our 10th season (2:50), presents probabilistic hitter forecasts using expert PA prediction averages (4:17), reviews Jarren Duran (22:19), and reviews Jack Flaherty(27:18).
Episode 8.49 - Betting on the Logo 10.02.2025 34:13
8.49 bats around some MLB player moves (0:37), reviews the preseason wins projections for teams in the MLB (5:37), and reviews Chris Martin (23:50).
Episode 8.48 - So I asked ChatGPT 03.02.2025 32:04
8.48 bats around some MLB player movement (0:37), bounces into the Luka trade (4:00), asks ChatGPT for some insights on some outstanding action items from the recent predictions rollout (5:51), and reviews Ryan Pressly (21:54)
Episode 8.47 - Looking at a lot of guys 27.01.2025 28:58
8.47 bats around some MLB player moves (0:38), finds the fantasy landscape barren (4:56), presents the initial pitcher projections (6:53), and reviews Jeff Hoffmann (20:43).
Episode 8.46 - High Dimensional Linear 20.01.2025 27:05
8.46 bats around some MLB player movement (0:38), finds the end of Skeleton Crew (3:46), presents the 600PA version of the preseason 2025 predictions (6:58), and reviews Jorge Lopez (19:00).
Episode 8.45 - Mismatched Literals 13.01.2025 28:18
8.45 bats around some MLB player movement(0:39), finds At Attin in Skeleton Crew (4:07), continues cleaning up the stat-scraping repository (7:25), and reviews Trevor Megill (19:45)
Episode 8.44 - Batting Order Pre-Spring Cleaning 06.01.2025 28:05
8.44 bats around the recent MLB moves (0:38), finds Skeleton Crew episodes 5 & 6 (3:50), reboots the batting order analysis with some GitHub updates (8:09), and reviews Ben Joyce (19:55).
Episode 8.43 - AI as a Coach 24.12.2024 27:40
8.43 bats around some MLB winter moves (0:38) , finds Skeleton Crew episode 4 (3:15), ponders AI as a Coach for fantasy baseball (5:11), and reviews Liam Hendriks (21:02).
Episode 8.42 - AI as a Creative 16.12.2024 30:52
8.42 bats around some winter 2024 player movement (0:38), jumps into Skeleton Crew 1.3 (4:46), posits AI as a creative in Fantasy (6:55), and reviews David Robertson (24:50).
Episode8.41 - AI as a Tutor 10.12.2024 32:35
8.41 bats around some MLB player movement (0:33), finds the Skeleton Crew (3:51), tackles AI as a tutor (7:24), and reviews Giovanny Gallegos (27:10).
Episode 8.40 - AI book review: Co-Intelligence 02.12.2024 34:47
8.40 tracks some early offseason player movement (0:41), finds the Skeleton Crew’s new release date (4:45), opens AI month with a book review of “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" (6:23), and reviews Porter Hodge (28:09).
Episode 8.39 - Childlike Empress 25.11.2024 31:26
8.39 huddles by the hot stove (0:38), notes Dune Prophecy (4:10), continues the stat-scraping cleanup with a new pull request (6:17), and reviews Josh Sborz (23:56).
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