Fantasy Toolz Podcast

5.07 talks through the COVID19 IL (0:38), peeks at the Indiana Jones V news (2:34), opens the bet box (4:59), and reviews Myles Straw (22:06).

5.06 welcomes baseball back by batting around some banter (0:39), notes the release of the Obi Wan series cast (3:13), squashes some batting order bugs (5:20), and reviews Xander Bogaerts (17:29).

5.05 bats around some injury news (0:37), ponders whether DC & Marvel news bears discussion (4:24), presents the batting order algorithm mentioned in 5.04 (7:34), and reviews Bo Bichette (23:07).

5.04 validates picks through some spring training clip viewing (0:41), visits the first age by completing Beren and Lúthien (3:20), presents some guys highlighted through rough algorithms (5:30), and reviews Francisco Lindor (24:43).

5.03 celebrates their completion of TGFBI drafts (0:40), bats around some spring training reactions (4:35), rifles through Beren and Lúthien (6:57), presents a synthetic drafting model (10:52), and reviews Mauricio Dubon (21:08).

5.02 picks at some TGFBI picks (0:40), self-identifies favorite pick/worst pick so far (1:49), poses a new book club target: Beren and Lúthien (8:46), wanders through global ADP trends in TGFBI (11:39), makes a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) model of the TGFBI draft that answers the question: when will this guy be available (14:43), and reviews Trevor Story (19:35).

5.01 extols the return of baseball highlights (0:39), welcomes draft day in TGFBI (2:04), presents some visual aids for our forecast methodology (6:55), and reviews Trea Turner (16:17).

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 Bass (59:08).

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 (50:16), and Roberto Osuna (56:42).

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 (46:03), Kirby Yates (53:15), Brad Hand (60:25), Nick Anderson + Rays bullpen (66:40), Ryan Pressly (74:19), Craig Kimbrel (78:55), Taylor Rogers (84:15), Devin Williams (89:15), and James Karinchak (97:53).

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).