Fantasy Toolz Podcast

5.49 seeks pitchers & catchers while asking whether we are ready for Fantasy drafts (0:40), assigns some Fantasy readings (4:07), kicks around some Football (5:24), predicts PAs while quelling some existential questions about whether it all matters (6:52), and reviews Marcelo Mayer (23:21).

5.48 ponders MLB start delays impacting Fantasy Baseball (0:38), marches with the increasing cadence of Fantasy news including Obi Wan (3:39) & TRoP (5:50), kicks around some football (9:04), probes why the agents in our ABM dislike drafting starting pitchers (9:58), and reviews Noelvi Marte (23:37).

5.47 notes the 150 game AAA schedule (0:39), proclaims TGFBI league assignments (0:55), considers the Mandolorian (2:44), kicks around some football (5:56), talks benchmark PA model (6:54), and reviews Marco Luciano (23:20).

5.46 leafs through Twins HoF propaganda (0:41), finds the Mandalorian (2:37), acknowledges NFL playoffs progress (5:16), enumerates the commits made during a big week for github regarding: synthetic drafting, stat scraping, & batting order analysis (7:30), and reviews Royce Lewis (21:34).

5.45 scrutinizes some MLB HoF ballots (0:42), watches some LOTR: TROP teaser (3:44), kicks around some football (6:48), consolidates some stat scraping tools (8:44), and reviews some CJ Abrams (22:29).

5.44 sails through the doldrums of MLB news (0:41), leafs through the Book of Boba (3:55), kicks around some EPL (9:37), adds items to the synthetic draft modeling wish list (11:16), and reviews Bobby Witt Jr (22:53).

5.43 picks over the lack of MLB news (0:40), predicts the top 12 in Fantasy Baseball 2022 ADP (1:44), kicks around some football (7:55), makes some incremental progress on synthetic drafting (10:08), and reviews Garrett Hampson (21:24).

5.42 glances at the Buck Showalter hiring (0:42), concludes season 0 of WoT (3:05), gut checks the synthetic draft machine (7:37), and reviews Wander Franco (23:23).

5.41 bats around some MLB 2022 playoff predictions (0:42), winds the wheel of time (6:13), kicks around some EPL (10:39), loads up the synthetic draft machine aka, draft bot (11:36), and reviews Ha-seong Kim (17:01).

5.40 finds a dearth of MLB news (0:43), turns the wheel on WoT 0.5 (3:31), kicks around some football (8:23), rewinds the synthetic drafting machine (9:16), and reviews Jean Segura (21:37).

5.39 finds another astrophysicist in baseball analysis (0:42), turns the wheel discussing WoT 0.3 & 0.4 (3:15), kicks around some football (8:50), makes some real progress on PA prediction (10:39), and reviews Nicky Lopez (23:05).

5.38 leafs through the MLB news (0:39), turns the Wheel of Time discussing 0.1 and 0.2 (3:22), kicks around some EPL (6:44), walks through some Hot Stove case studies for player team changes (8:51), and reviews Willy Adames (21:07).

5.37 tallies the MLB awards predictions (0:39), turns the wheel of time (2:16), kicks around some EPL (8:28), walks the long and winding road towards predicting PAs preseason (9:18), and reviews Amed Rosario (20:20).

5.36 bats around some MLB awards talk (0:37), punts some Football talk (5:40), wanders around some lineup discussion (9:51), and reviews Andrelton Simmons (20:43). Quick note: we struggled through some poorly timed background noise, apologies for the clipping!

5.35 congratulates the Braves (0:39), works through potential changes next season in the MLB (1:55), kicks around some EPL (3:33), spot checks the 2022 predictions by gut checking scoring category lines for 6 players [Walker Buehler, Jack Flaherty, Zack Wheeler, Manny Machado, DJ LeMahieu, Willy Adames] (5:00), and reviews Chris Taylor (25:49).

5.34 tosses around some World Series thoughts (0:38), kicks around some EPL (3:48), peeks through the pitching validation (5:58), and reviews Willi Castro (21:09).

5.33 reviews the AL/NLCS picks plus picks a World Series team (0:38), reviews No Time to Die as well as Dune (3:54), kicks around some football (9:57), and walks through some validation of preseason predictions (12:20).

5.32 bats around some week one 2021 MLB Playoff talk (0:38), tackles some football (5:14), wanders through rankings data (7:57), and reviews Andres Gimenez (24:52).

5.31 scrutinizes the MLB playoff matchups (0:41), kicks around some EPL (3:23), dives into the Fantasy Baseball bet box (5:35), and reviews Jose Iglesias (27:23).

5.30 tracks the evolving MLB playoff picture (0:39), kicks around some EPL (2:46), schemes the last TGFBI push (4:40), reads through the abstract for “Predicting draft opponents' behavior with agent-based modeling” (14:43), and reviews David Fletcher (20:12).

5.29 anticipates MLB playoff seedings (0:38), passes through some NFL (2:58), kicks around some football (4:58), prepares for the fall writing season by laying down some groundwork for 2022 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference abstract submission (7:25), and reviews Jake Cronenworth (18:13).

5.28 bathes in the imminent inundation of fantasy on the big screen (0:38), wanders through a quick query of top 5 hitters & top five pitchers over the last 21 days (2:01), kicks around double football (6:19), presents progress on the Agent-Based Model for Pitcher Selection in an NFBC format (9:27), and reviews Paul DeJong (20:42).

5.27 eulogizes Fantasy endings (0:40), kicks around some EPL (2:18), turns the Wheel of Time talk (4:12), throws out the idea of agent-based modeling for game theorizing TGFBI pitcher picking (7:11), and reviews Jazz Chisholm (21:21).

5.26 scrutinizes the “Brown is Back” campaign (0:39), kicks around some EPL (3:29), benchmarks a pickup model for pitchers in TGFBI (6:59), and reviews Ketel Marte (20:48).

5.25 connects Henri with Baseball (0:40), kicks around some EPL (2:38), postmortems the H2H case study results from the Toolz derby (5:18), identifies some hitters outperforming their preseason forecasts (13:35), and reviews Jorge Polanco (22:52).