Fantasy Toolz Podcast

4.06 tackles sourdoughing during pandemic (0:40), finds food in the NBA bubble (3:50), seeks answers to the question: who is on my team (9:06), and deteriorates into a closer conversation that ponders the realities of rostering teams during the pandemic (15:34).

4.05 alleges the return of Baseball (0:40), probes EuroVision Fire Saga (2:16), bounces around the return of sports (5:20), bats around some TGFBI preparation talk (10:17), and workshops a potentially impactful project: strength of schedule analysis (16:51).

4.04.1 knocks out some Westworld season 3 content covering 3.03 - 3.05. Will get back to Baseball and regular pods one day.

4.04 gets back into Westworld (0:41), bats around thoughts on the impact of a delayed season & unprecedented times on Fantasy Baseball (9:25) & Fantasy Baseball related projects (15:12), and reviews Brad Hand (22:02).

4.03 celebrates the successful completion of our respective TGFBI drafts (0:40), ponders the prospect of games played in empty ballparks (6:47), introduces “Agent Based Modeling” (9:16), runs through an ABM case study (18:07), and reviews Ian Kennedy (24:43).

4.02 bats around some MLB topics (0:40), walks through some TGFBI Catcher thoughts (6:04), wonders through some new updates to the 2020 projections model (8:20), ponders a case study: pitcher tiers from a cost-value perspective (14:53), and reviews Joe Jimenez (23:07).

4.01 discusses dating (0:41), bats around some baseball topics (2:22), jumps into the TGFBI draft (4:27), presents new, updated projections based on updated PA/IP projections + an overall ranking system (15:45), and reviews Alex Colome (22:50).

4.00 tackles KDS in TGFBI (0:39), eulogizes BoJack (5:39), peeks at the first final draft of the Toolz 2020 projections (10:50), bats around some thoughts on the new projection visualization technique (18:27), and reviews Taylor Rogers (23:10).

3.48 touches on the most interesting story in the COVID-19 news (0:39), tackles the trade that wasn’t… then was (2:18), pokes at some season 3 stats (5:50), sets some goals for season 4 (16:36), and reviews Eloy Jimenez (21:49).

3.47 bounces around the plethora of news this week (0:40), bats around some MLB topics (2:22), walks through home league keeper picks (5:10), announces TGFBI acceptance emails (6:40), and steals some IP (16:53).

3.46 notes the quality of the Timberwolves play (0:39), weighs the NFL Champion options (2:17), gauges BoJack preparedness (4:28), announces some sad Sloan Sports Analytics Conference news (6:14), bats around some season 3 wrap items (14:47), and reviews Danny Santana (23:41).

3.45 wanders through the Astros suspension story (0:39), reveals which ad during the NFC playoffs was of most interest (1:49), airs concerns about the Sloan paper’s future (3:27), workshops player projections using a great sample set: arbitration eligible players (5:21), and reviews Trey Mancini (19:11).

3.44 tackles the Rise of Skywalker (1:00) and talks some Baseball & Pod programming (24:19).

We discuss HDM 0.6 & 0.7 at length.

3.43 jumps into some programming notes (0:41), reads through the Sloan 2020 paper submission: Predictive error estimates for baseball statistics using clustering algorithms and covariance analysis (1:28) including the following sections: 1. Introduction (2:04), 2. Methods (3:48), 2.1 Data Discussion (4:39), 2.2 Cluster Computation (8:35), 2.2.1 Choosing the k-means clustering algorithm (9:20), 2.2.2 The Mike Method: A Conceptual Model for determining k (12:01), 2.2.3 The Rentz Routine: A Geometric Model for determining k (13:12), 2.2.4 Clustering Assignment (14:35), 2.3 Player Prediction & Estimation (18:42), 2.4 Prediction Validation (23:33), 3. Case Studies for Christian Yelich (27:43) & Mike Clevinger (31:02), 4. Conclusions (32:04), and concludes with some initial thoughts on the paper (34:16).

3.42 bucks the typical show construction and talks HDM 0.5 (1:09), runs through some key MLB talking points from 12/10/19 (9:43), touches on Silicon Valley (13:00), and bats around some Sloan paper finalization steps (16:02).

We discuss HDM 0.4 at length

3.41 puts a little code discussion on ice (0:41), discusses the genesis of ‘Anbaric Development Partners’ name (1:45), bats around some MLB player movement (2:23), ogles at some new corner plots (4:45), picks at paper writing minutiae(16:38), and reviews Mookie Betts (21:24).

3.40 sends everyone a Happy Thanksgiving (0:36), lingers beyond the WSJ paywall & talks SAT scores (1:06), walks through the projections modeling tuning for the Sloan paper (4:12), bats around some thoughts on the writing (18:20), and reviews Mike Trout (21:43).

We discuss HDM 0.3 and related matter.