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 7.37 - Select Guys That Look Like Alek Manoah 14.11.2023 30:36

7.37 congratulates all the newly hired managers (0:40), probes the longitudinal ownership data that has accumulated over the season (3:35), and reviews Isaac Paredes (21:44).

Episode 7.36 - All Sorts of Stuff 07.11.2023 33:08

7.36 congratulates the Texas Rangers WS win (0:36), notes the release of Gold Glove awards (1:56), scrutinizes Votto’s release (3:43), roots through the bet box (5:26), and reviews Brendan Donovan (27:58).

Episode 7.35 - Applied Statistics 31.10.2023 28:53

7.35 wades into the ‘23 WS matchup (0:38), intros Bayesian Stats 101 for Fantasy Baseball (7:03), and reviews Joey Votto (18:37).

Episode 7.34 - Mutually Exclusive 16.10.2023 34:57

7.34 bats around some MLB ‘23 Championship Series talk (0:35), tests one of the Toolz on their knowledge of the ‘23 FBB season (4:18), and reviews Juan Yepez (27:30).

Episode 7.33 - Too Many Shortstops 11.10.2023 34:40

7.33 bats around some MLB ‘23 divisional playoffs (0:37), concludes Ahsoka season 1 & WoT 2 (4:22), does a postmortem on the Toolz TGFBI performances (11:17), and reviews Matt Mervis (28:04).

Episode 7.32 - Skip the Pitchers 03.10.2023 32:33

7.32 welcomes the ‘23 MLB Playoffs (0:40), says so long to Tim (1:26), checks the final TGFBI standings (3:07), turns the wheel on WoT & Ahsoka (4:15), posits potential Fantasy MVP candidates (7:19), and reviews Alex Kirilloff (25:05).

Episode 7.31 - Pivoted So Hard 28.09.2023 32:36

7.31 reads an MLB article about incredible stats (0:39), checks the TGFBI standings (5:23), rounds up WoT/Ahsoka episode 6s (6:55), wanders through players straddling AAA & MLB across hitters & pitchers (11:08), and reviews Wil Myers (24:27).

Episode 7.30 - Going to the last day 19.09.2023 27:54

7.30 finds clinching season in the MLB (0:34), checks the TGFBI standings (1:38), provides quick hits on Ahsoka & WoT (3:36), explores some Runs summary stats (8:00), and Jared Walsh (21:09).

Episode 7.29 - Rule Change Precipitates Change 12.09.2023 30:07

7.29 reads a report on SBs (0:37), checks the TGFBI standings (2:11), wanders through Ahsoka & WoT (3:23), tosses around some top 20 SP lists from the last 6 seasons for predicting repeats (7:34), and reviews Spencer Torkelson (20:00).

Episode 7.28 - Late and Pre-Processed 06.09.2023 23:39

***Apologies for the audio quality**** 7.28 ponders the Astros/Rangers rivalry (0:35), check the TGFBI standings (2:32), wanders through Ahsoka Season 1 & WoT Season 2 (3:14), automates Minors callups analysis (7:39), and reviews Yandy Diaz (15:51).

Episode7.27- Given up on K(aves) 03.09.2023 29:38

7.27 drools over 30/30 seasons while anticipating a 30/60 club (0:37), reports on the gut punch feeling of Mookie in Fenway in a Dodgers uni (2:35), checks the TGFBI standings (4:54), wanders into Ahsoka (8:05), scrutinizes accumulating HR & SB in a weekly league playoff matchup from the waiver wire (9:53), and reviews DJ LeMahieu (20:08).

Episode 7.26 - Optimisation Problems 22.08.2023 34:38

7.26 ponders SoCal baseball (0:37), checks the TGFBI standings (3:50), presents TGFBI pitching as an optimization problem (7:06), and reviews Trey Mancini (28:16).

Episode7.25 - Good/Bad Ks Numbers 15.08.2023 33:53

7.25 bats around some MLB topics (0:35), checks TGFBI standings (4:07), walks through a strikeout summary statistical analysis (6:30), and reviews Miguel Vargas (26:08).

Episode 7.24 - Busy Guys 09.08.2023 32:02

7.24 compares a no-hitter to a 1-hitter (0:38), checks TGFBI standings (2:48), notes the EPL’s return (6:13), tries modeling pitching rotation order for forecasting pitcher matchups (7:47), and reviews Seth Brown (22:46).

Episode 7.23 - All the Closer Things 01.08.2023 31:28

7.23 bats around some MLB trade deadline ‘23 moves (0:38), walks through some TGFBI news (4:08), works through all the closer things (6:28), and reviews Triston Casas (22:18).

Episode 7.22 - If McGwire Fits 25.07.2023 35:39

7.22 bats around Immaculate Grid (0:38), diagnoses TGFBI failings (5:34), and reviews Brandon Drury (23:22).

Episode 7.21 - Win Odds 18.07.2023 32:42

7.21 shows some AL bias while pondering the ‘23 ASG (0:38), checks the TGFBI standings but really considers closer movement (1:48), pours over run differential differential predictions modeling progress (5:03), and reviews Alec Bohm (21:35).

Episode 7.20 - An Appropriate Time 11.07.2023 37:12

7.20 tackles recent pitching gems (0:35), rejoices the ASG break’s chance for a breather in TGFBI (3:13), presents an update on the wins prediction model based on run differential differentials (6:41), and reviews Josh Naylor (26:12).

Episode 7.19 - The Tail is So Long 04.07.2023 36:21

7.19 ponders ASG impact on Fantasy (0:35), checks TGFBI standings (5:56), sets some over/under lines for the bet box (8:07), and reviews Joey Meneses (29:34).

Episode 7.18 - Run Differential Differential 28.06.2023 35:15

7.18 hails the halfway point in the MLB season (0:37), checks the TGFBI standings (2:47), talks about what to do when data disappears while presenting opponent quality through run differential differential/delta based win probability (6:44), and reviews Luis Arraez (22:27).

Episode 7.17 - Should/could be more SBs 20.06.2023 30:38

7.17 bats around some MLB topics (0:38), checks TGFBI standings (6:10), scrutinizes some summary Stolen Base stats (7:15), and reviews Jake Cronenworth (21:14).

Episode 7.16 - So Much GD Baseball 13.06.2023 34:29

7.16 strolls through the CHW bullpen (0:41), check the TGFBI standings (3:34), wanders into Fantasy universe show speculation (6:45), continues examining opponent quality by looking at strength of schedule through a Fantasy lens (9:27), and reviews Jose Miranda (23:59).

Episode 7.15 - Opponent Quality 06.06.2023 33:20

7.15 tosses around some MLB topics (0:38), performs a TGFBI Toolz check-in (4:50), bats around some thoughts on modeling opponent quality for picking up more wins/Ks (10:18), and reviews Josh Bell (21:17).

Episode 7.14 - Lyrical Sounding Names 30.05.2023 35:17

7.14 bats around some MLB topics (0:39), checks the TGFBI standings (3:59), checks preseason pitching projections (6:46), and reviews Ty France (24:50).

Episode7.13 - On Pace For 23.05.2023 31:24

7.13 hits around some MLB topics (0:38), checks Toolz Derby results & TGFBI standings (6:15), checks how preseason projections have shifted with current rest of season projections (8:07), and reviews Rowdy Tellez (24:48).