Fantasy Toolz Podcast

2.40 investigates the new Brave: Josh Donaldson (0:40) with an addition to the bet box (1:29), dissects the GRRM interview with Colbert (1:46), revisits the preseason hitter projection archetype clustering exercise by comparing preseason projected with realized full season hitter stats (4:38), evaluates some sample player cluster assignments preseason vs full season (14:41), bounces some NBA talk around (22:34), and reviews RoTK (24:47).

2.39 figures out the Paxton trade (0:40), gazes at the NFL scorigami graphic (2:35), wades through the 2018 pitching bet box (4:22), unearths the 2018 hitting bet box (14:25), crushes the obligatory Thanksgiving banter (24:36), and reviews FB2 (25:39).

2.38 glances at Oumuamua (0:40), critiques the Amazon HQ pick(s) (2:17), presents the Injury Update Scraper (5:03), studies a few example injury watch players (14:07) & throws one in the bet box (17:22), postulates the European Super League’s success (23:54), and reviews Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (26:51).

2.37 discovers that the NFL season has passed the halfway mark (0:41), scrutinizes the moment America has been waiting for since 2016 (2:28), presents the basics of the Zeitgeist Model (4:24), tackles some zeitgeist case studies [‘Manny Machado’, ‘Alberto Mondesi’, ‘Kyle Freeland’, ‘David Peralta’, ‘Andrew Miller’](15:18), bats around the ‘18 gold glovers (23:23), and ends with a review of the Nightmare Before Christmas (24:57).

2.36 visits the EPL (0:40), ponders the World Series (1:46), bats around some offseason goals (7:06), flags some offseason storylines to watch (14:48) including lots of closer thoughts, deposits a bet box submission (22:34), obligatorily debates the MVP vote results (23:28), and reviews Minority Report (25:36).

2.35 reviews the Dodgers/Brewers series (0:38), flips through the fantasy section of the news (1:43), analyzes early ‘19 fantasy rankings (5:25) including devalued players (18:40), tackles BoJack 5.11 & 5.12 (23:56), gets excited for the World Series (26:44), and reviews Hook (28:30).

2.34 critiques job ads (0:38), explores the concept of what actually makes a ‘space movie’ (1:24), waxes poetic about the preseason consensus top 100 players (4:55), identifies the industry experts’ ‘worst calls’ from the top 100 going into 2018 (16:21), bounces around some NBA chatter(25:00), talks BoJack 5.9 & 5.10 (26:52), and reviews Fantastic Beasts 1 (29:10).

2.33 tackles BoJack 5.5 through 5.8 (0:38), finds it Sanoing in the DR (2:48), bats around some LDS banter (3:27), peeks in the bet box (5:52), reviews some mid-season pitcher predictions & fake trades (16:33), torments the EPL table (25:28), and reviews The Truman Show (27:26).

2.32 waxes poetic about 30/30 players (0:38), scrutinizes Khris Davis (4:25), kicks around some interactive graphics we’ve posted to our website (5:56), bats around some end of season baseball thoughts (12:46), wraps up some borderline HoF careers (25:58), and reviews HP3 (27:27).

2.31 apologizes for being late (0:37), shares an article about the AL East Champions banner being held hostage (1:01), drink up the #GAB(eer)F hashtag (2:09), bounces around the 4 200+K Indians (4:18), brainstorms online and interactive graphics (7:00), workshops a runs differential graphic (13:58), critiques BoJack 5.3 & 5.4 (24:33), looks at the Profar/Muncy ownership comparison (26:33), and reviews Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (28:27).

2.30 delves into Matrix parallels (0:40), broaches looking at Daily Fantasy (2:18), analyzes Star Wars references by the DoD (3:14), critiques BoJack 5.1 & 5.2 (3:57), presents an applied H2H fantasy baseball problem for an emergency algorithm club (5:58), presents the applied Monte Carlo modeling exercise process & results (13:04), checks the bottom of the Premier League table (26:36), kicks around some thoughts about NFL ties (27:47), and reviews The Dark Knight (30:00).

2.29 looks at some recent Toolz approved player adds (0:41), critiques some 538 twitter feed action (3:16), presents a new series: visualization club (6:08), tackles task #1 of visualization club: 3D plots (14:46), ponders NFL week #1 (23:09), and reviews Empire (27:45).

2.28 complains about closers (0:37), finds K-Rod (2:16), skims WaPo’s article about baseball cliches (3:17), recaps Algorithm Club (4:54), thinks about the future of Algorithm Club (17:16), gets ready for BoJack S5 (22:17) & NFL (23:04), and ends with a review of Inception (24:03).

2.27 strategizes fantasy baseball through MLB standings watching (0:40), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge topic: Artificial Neural Networks (neural nets) (5:04), dives into some half baked neural net applications (14:53), punts a Fantasy Football conversation (22:56), and reviews Casino Royale (25:34).

2.26 bats around praise for the most recent triple play (0:40), ponders learning a new language (2:28), critiques Cat. 5e cables (3:46), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge topic: time series analysis (5:57), models the longitudinal ownership of Max Muncy v. Jurickson Profar (11:50), peeks at the state of the home league (23:36), and reviews Pirates of the Caribbean (Black Pearl, duh) (25:30).

2.25 visits DEF CON (0:40), weighs a steam locomotive argument (1:56), bats around some baseball topics (4:08), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge topic: Random Forests (5:23), applies the Random Forest algorithm to TGFBI data (9:51), applies the Random Forest algorithm to closers (16:36), ponders the home league (24:37), punts some football topics (26:16), and reviews Fight Club (28:12).

2.24 glances at the MLB standings (0:39), postulates about the Premier League (3:50), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge topic: PCA (Principal Component Analysis) (5:24), applies PCA to TGFBI (The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational) (8:22), applies PCA to statcast data for pitch identification (17:17), checks the news out of math world (25:48), and ends with a review of The Princess Bride (27:11).

2.23 critiques novels employing MLB fan cheap shots (0:37), identifies the Twins firesale (1:26), reviews an astronomical analysis of baseball stadiums (3:31), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge topic: simple univariate outlier detection(4:36), identifies pitching outliers using fastball velocity data (6:49), discusses the application of Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) on BABIP (batting average on balls in play) for identifying outliers (16:32), ponders algorithms & bias (23:50), and reviews the Life of Brian (25:58).

2.22 analyzes Jimmy G’s choice of lady friends (0:40), scrutinizes the sports eclipse (2:24), presents a new series: the algorithmic challenge (4:32), provides a primer on TGFBI analysis (13:35), checks in with the craft beer scene (20:19), critiques a recent WaPo article on accents (21:12), glances at the new job opening with the Brew Crew (23:19), and ends with a review of Gattaca (24:10).

2.21 analyzes the new scandal in Washington (0:38), dissects the Matheny news (1:38), speculates Machado landing spots (2:37), revisits the Runs machine learning model (4:30) with some updates (11:21), revisits early season pitcher assertions (14:54), touches on some Eurosport (24:38), and reviews IJ1 (26:29).