Fantasy Toolz Podcast

5.00 welcomes everyone into season 5 with some player movement banter (0:40), checks in on the Mandalorian (4:27), gets into draft prep mode with some rankings updates (5:45), and reviews Fernando Tatis (20:23).

4.36 warms up around the hot stove (0:40), notes that TGFBI is back (5:41), kicks around some EPL (6:07), wraps up season 4 (8:09), and announces the season 5 review topic (20:14).

4.35.2 announces the last (aka, the chaff) in the closer review series (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more dated than others) (0:39), Joe Jimenez (2:29), Ian Kennedy (7:52), Trevor Gott (12:10), Taylor Williams (19:00), Jeremy Jeffress (23:12), Wade Davis (30:46), Sergio Romo (36:35), Daniel Hudson (40:23), Jonathan Hernandez (50:06), and Anthony Ba...

4.35.1 announces the second in the closer review series (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more dated than others) (0:39), Drew Pomeranz (1:50), Matt Barnes (5:12), Rafael Montero (12:05), Hector Neris (18:05), Alex Colome (24:19), Giovanny Gallegos (+ Andrew Miller) (29:39), Mark Melancon (+ATL bullpen) (37:49), Stefan Crichton (43:49), Archie Bradley...

4.35 announces a special pod series aggregating the closer reviews from the season (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more dated than others) (0:39), reviews in this pod include: Josh Hader (1:35), Liam Hendriks (8:20), Liam Hendriks AGAIN (12:59), Edwin Diaz (19:03), Aroldis Chapman (26:24), Raisel Iglesias (32:06), Kenley Jansen (41:40) + bullpen (46:...

4.34 bats around some MLB player movement (0:39), kicks around some football (3:10), presents Fantasy Toolz 2021 forecast rankings updates with new IP and PA assumptions (5:56), and reviews Stefan Crichton (20:28).

4.33 bats around the Springer to TO news (0:40), works through NFL playoffs storylines (2:51), kicks around some EPL (4:40), obtains IP & PA consensus projections for our 2021 Fantasy Baseball forecasting model (5:21), and reviews James Karinchak (17:31).

4.32 tackles the NFL divisional round (0:38), kicks around some EPL (3:02), pokes around the new 2021 pitcher forecasts (3:47), and reviews Mat Barnes (15:41).

4.31 tackles NFL playoffs (0:40), makes EPL predictions (3:08), plucks players from the news for spot checking the rankings (3:59), and reviews Edwin Diaz (17:46).

4.30 reviews the HDM season 2 finale (0:42), kicks around some EPL (6:30), inches the 2021 rankings forward through tinkering with 2020/2019 weights in the rankings model (9:40), and reviews Liam Hendriks (22:49).

4.29 finds HDM 2.6 (0:40), kicks through some EPL (4:09), reboots the rankings (5:55), and reviews Josh Hader (20:03).

4.28 tackles HDM 2.5 (0:37), grimaces at the EPL results (4:23), debates using pitch fingerprinting for projections (8:21), and reviews Anthony Bass (12:53).

4.27 wades through the new Star Wars content announcement (0:39), examines HDM 2.4 (3:58), kicks around some EPL (8:53), graphs heat maps of Ks & HRs over the pitch fingerprinting data (10:33), and reviews Jonathan Hernandez (20:33).

4.26 explores HDM 2.3 (0:37), revels in the StP Saints news (8:59), workshops some pitch fingerprinting oddities within the fourseamer data (12:12), and reviews Rafael Montero (23:26).

4.25 examines episode 2.2 of HDM (0:38), tackles some football (5:50), creates a corner plot of statcast pitching data (8:24), and reviews Hector Neris (21:53).

4.24 welcomes HDM’s second season (0:37), kicks around some EPL (6:44), seeks a question for pitch arsenal analysis (9:44), and reviews Daniel Hudson (16:04).

4.23 peers at the 2020 MLB awards (0:39), turns up the heat for a four-seamer discussion (4:40), and reviews Roberto Osuna (20:43).

4.22 kicks around some EPL (0:39), notes the return of HDM with season 2 (3:01), deep dives a few ‘sinkerball’ pitchers (4:26), and reviews Sergio Romo (23:32).

4.21 mourns the life of the first James Bond (0:39), kicks around some EPL (2:29), continues the saga of sinkers vs two-seamers (5:04), and reviews Wade Davis (20:13).

4.20 notes the auspicious pod number (0:38), bats around some Rays/Dodgers mid-World Series thoughts (0:52), breezes through the EPL table (2:12), scrutinizes the pitch fingerprinting PCA application by asking whether two-seam fastballs are sinkers (4:00), and reviews the Dodgers bullpen (19:02).

4.19 kicks around some EPL banter (0:38), bats around league championship notes while prepping for the World Series (1:54), eulogizes the Sloan paper that was not (5:56), chucks more data into the pitch fingerprinting PCA application (9:35), and reviews the Rays bullpen (20:50).

4.18 notes the moving back of big movie releases (0:38), celebrates the end of the NBA bubble (3:22), bats around the MLB playoffs (6:08), charts some next steps for the pitches by pitcher PCA application (10:54), and reviews the Atlanta bullpen (21:29).

4.17 walks through the MLB playoffs (0:41), kicks around some EPL (3:58), (w)raps on the TGFBI season (5:27), and reviews the Cards relievers: Giovanny Gallegos & Andrew Miller (18:42).

4.16 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:39), tackles the sad state of a few NFL teams (2:16), dives into the Fantasy Toolz bet box for some conclusions (4:40), and reviews Raisel Iglesias (19:09).

4.15 clenches for clinching season in the MLB (0:37), tackles some new Fantasy trailers (3:03), submits an abstract for the 2021 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference entitled “Consistency in uncertain times: the differences between the 2020 and 2019 MLB seasons are not affecting pitches.” (6:36), and reviews Jeremy Jeffress (20:37).