Fantasy Toolz Podcast

2.20 glances at the World Cup 2018 (0:40), critiques the ASG selections through a fantasy lens (2:03), summarizes salient points from the last few buy low/sell high podcasts (4:26),workshops Gaussian Mixture Models (15:23), ponders the impact that bias has on data assumptions (22:56), and reviews Independence Day (24:42)

2.19 provides a bonus review session: road trips (0:39), mentions the Toolz Darby Redux (2:22), whips through some potential buy low pitchers (4:32), hits around a few potential buy low hitters (17:04), criticizes the ASG ballot box (25:04), and ends with a review of Rogue One (27:13).

2.18 spoils Westworld (0:43), bats around the new MLB pitching strategy (3:56), ponders the conundrum: so you want to sell pitchers high (6:20), develops the buy low flow (18:42), peers at the home league standings (23:56), and reviews T2 (25:40).

2.17 peers at the World Cup action (0:39), bats around some MLB topics (2:27), ponders the conundrum: so you want to sell high (5:04) and presents some potential sell high batters (13:26), celebrates Father’s Day with Westworld (23:26), and reviews Willy Wonka (25:38).

2.16 drops into Westworld (0:40), fawns over the immaculate inning (2:23), announces the GoT spinoff (4:08), ponders the conundrum: So you want to plan for keepers? (5:20), floats some potential keepers (15:37), imagines ‘The Decision 2.0’ (26:00), and ends with a review of Fahrenheit 451 (27:43).

2.15 reports the versioning news of the day (0:40), takes the pulse of the dark v. light roast debate (2:39), ponders the conundrum: so you want to make a trade (4:54), presents a basic trade evaluator model (17:02), glances at the news from Westworld (24:48), and ends with a review of the Two Towers (25:43).

2.14.1 extends our Star Wars conversation from podcast 2.14 and discusses Westworld. Caution: this is very unpolished and we go deep.

2.14 pits theoretical universe expansion options against one another (0:39), recognizes a week of bad beats for the Toolz in Fantasy (1:50), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t Run (4:36), applies the growth chart model from season 1 to 2018 Run data (12:34), shoots through other news in Sport (27:54), and ends with a review of Solo… kind of (29:26).

2.13 drops into Shogun World (0:41), tackles the Laurel Yanni debate (3:36), scrutinizes longitudinal CBS player ownership data (5:12), examines ESPN ownership trends (18:04), peruses the NBA happenings (28:48), and reviews Fellowship (30:21).

2.12 wonders at the legalization of sports gambling (0:40), drops into Westworld (1:48), complains about recent DL moves (4:15), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t K (6:10), builds a few linear regression models for K based stats (14:35), glances at the EPL news (28:43), and reviews Goldeneye (30:24).

2.11 drops into Westworld (0:41), bats around some miscellaneous baseball talking points (2:08), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t have power (5:10), builds optimistic machine learning home runs model (17:12), bounces into some NBA playoff thoughts (26:44), and reviews HP6 (28:36).

2.10 visits Westworld 2.01 and 2.02 (0:39), analyzes a figure relating Ks/Hs/BBs/HRs (1:20), premieres a new segment: random hitters doing well (2:43), introduces the conundrum: so your team doesn’t win average (5:14), reviews batting average work done in season 1 (15:18), peeks at the TGFBI standings (22:39), chats about the ‘18 NBA playoffs (24:21), and ends with a review of Jurassic Park (25:17).

2.09 visits Milwaukee (0:40), works through the ‘18 NBA first round playoffs (1:48), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t get wins (3:51), dips into some new machine learning with tensorflow (16:02), scrutinizes predicting outcomes through the assessment of random betting markets (26:01), assesses FiveThiryEight’s article about late inning favorable ball and strike calls (27:33), and ends with a review of The Phantom Menace (29:07).

2.08 celebrates Joe Mauer’s fantasy irrelevant achievement (0:41), rants about the new MLB TV ad paradigm (2:30), discusses MLB action in the PR & snow (3:21), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t get saves (5:03), presents the beta version of the relief report (16:06), bounces around some NBA playoff talk (22:36), and ends with the great IJ3 review (25:39).

2.07 scrutinizes the achievement of hitting the cycle (0:42), acknowledges the new Solo trailer (2:50), ponders the conundrum: so your team doesn’t steal bases (5:02), jumps into Monte Carlo in search of legitimate stolen bases (16:05), notes the impending NBA playoffs (25:45), and ends with a review of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (27:28).

2.06 celebrates baseball’s return (0:39), peeks in the bet box (2:23), gets into fantasy add/drops by examining ownership data (4:58), performs player spot checks with publicly available ownership data (17:46), scrutinizes what other sport is occurring (24:42), and ends with a review of Spaceballs (26:39).

2.05 gets ready for baseball with some MLB thoughts (0:42) & picks RoY candidates (3:25), gets into fantasy with some roster management deep thoughts (5:28), dusts off the growth chart & Bastardo work (16:38), pontificates about the best John Williams song (23:35), celebrates all the sport happening (26:02), and reviews Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (27:40).

2.04 analyzes the Cambridge Analytica story (0:42), tackles the 2018 NCAA madness (2:08), peeks at THE BAT projection system (3:21), ponders the DL (5:02), runs through some DL themed over/unders (14:06), runs through some NFL chatter (24:56), and ends with a review of Back to the Future (26:55).

2.03 covers the MLB news of the day (0:37), touches TGFBI topics (2:57), gets into roster construction (4:42), presents hitting archetypes as a vehicle for analyzing draft trends (14:44), busts into some bracket jabber (27:21), and reviews Goldfinger (29:40).

2.02 banters about The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational (0:40), bats around some hot MLB topics (2:20), gets into fantasy with draft preparation musings (5:28), peers at Google News results (19:04), ponders Sherlock characters (28:06), and ends on a review of 300 (29:15).