Fantasy Toolz Podcast

1.31 congratulates everyone for another happy Fantasy season (0:39), considers the MLB playoffs (1:38), bats around some Fantasy Baseball stretch stories (3:00), admits the pod’s worst calls (5:33), celebrates the pod’s best calls (16:42), pours some out for the NFL season (28:04), hits repeat on the BoJack banter (30:25), and ends on a hot, breakfast, debate (32:06).

1.30 bats around some MLB topics (0:39), considers Fantasy MVP suspects (6:08), deliberates on Fantasy Cy Young candidates (17:14), brings back the acclaimed BoJack fawning segment (26:58), and ends on a simmering debate (28:51).

1.29 pops some champagne for MLB teams clinching playoff spots (0:40), discusses losing graciously (1:49), complains about west coast sporting event air times (3:37), pits preseason fantasy experts against the unwashed masses (5:21), puts some numbers to last week’s Game Theory primer (17:24), dips a toe into the flood of NFL consciousness (28:10), digests a disturbing BoJack trend (29:53), and ends on an aphrodisiac debate (31:15).

1.28 peeks at the MLB standings (0:40), picks apart Bojack 4.1 & 4.2 (2:04), provides some playoff pitching advice for a listener (4:56) while suggesting a few Bastardo targets (15:04), peers at the bottomless depths of game theory applications for fantasy (17:56), punts around some NFL week 1 topics (29:51), and proselytizes a holy triumvirate (31:32).

1.27 rekindles old feelings for Star Wars (0:40), bats around some MLB topics (2:05), presents a draft abstract (for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference) regarding the growth chart platform (4:39), workshops a second abstract for Sloan regarding fantasy ownership models (18:05), gathers for some Magic talk (29:44), readies for opening day in the NFL (30:50), and ends on a sauer debate (32:50).

1.26 dives into GoT for the last time in a long time (0:40), proposes new fantasy & shows to obsess over (4:25), pokes at the relationship between doubles and homers by postulating that doubles are just failed homers (6:55), doubles up the doubles talk by postulating that doubles age into homers over a career (19:05), looks askance at Fantasy Football (30:55), bats around some banter on the players weekend unis (31:33), and ends on a salty debate (32:22).

1.25 reflects on the GoT 7.6 over/unders (0:37), waxes poetic about a few GoT topics (2:36), poses GoT 7.7 over/unders (5:08), reevaluates the draft (6:33), applies the age curve work done on pitchers to hitters (19:44), banters about a special corona (30:42), and ends on a nutty debate (33:04).

1.24 congratulates one of the Toolz on making the playoffs (0:39), examines GoT 7.5 (1:25), poses GoT 7.6 over/unders (5:28), reflects & collects on the 2B v SS side bet (7:36), talks pitching match-ups & run differentials (18:52), bats around some astro. topics (29:50), and ends on a hole debate (32:17).

1.23 recovers from the Toolz' recent Baseball stadium tour antics (0:39), considers GoT 7.4 while simultaneously forecasting 7.5 (2:05), posits that rolling 3-week linear regression models can describe the trajectory of a player by statistic (6:06), introduces a new scraping tool and presents a few potential applications (18:43), banters about branding New England staples (29:14), and ends on perplexing Ohio River Valley specialty (30:37).

1.22 hits into a triple play discussion (0:39), strikes up a GoT 7.3 conversation (1:54), touches on some trade fallout (3:49), peruses some park effects info (5:45), engages the autocorrelation elephant in the room (20:28), honors a future HoFer (32:35), and ends on a sodium fueled debate (34:33).

1.21 bats around some GoT Episode 7.2 talking points (0:38), opens the inbox to find a listener question (5:46), characterizes mid-tier pitching replacement strategies using the Fantasy Tools Toolbox (7:47), starts a dialogue about pitch level statcast data (20:09), scrutinizes the iPhone news alert mechanism (28:08), contemplates some MLB topics (29:35), and ends on a lean debate (31:58).

1.20 argues the results of GoT 7.1 predictions (0:40), holds a nose at catcher strategery (4:48), presents growth in the growth chart work (18:40), recalls the ASG induced fantasy delirium tremens (29:08), bats around some MLB topics (30:11), and ends on a wrap (31:13).

1.19 makes GoT 7.1 predictions (0:40), bats around some screwball MLB topics (3:54), dives deep on three pitchers (6:36) including Kershaw (7:30), Kluber (10:44), & Tywin (13:58), contemplates three hitters including Zimmerman (17:55), Bellinger (22:25), & Correa (25:25), ponders the Home Run derby (28:33), and ends on a review that falls flat (30:27).

1.18 pours over the '17 all-star selections (0:40), brandishes with alacrity an obtuse argument about fantasy vocabulary (2:25), checks the pulse of pre-season stolen base analysis (5:55), drinks from the game logs fire hose (18:16), gut checks Harry Potter primary source rankings (29:20), and wraps with a poky review (31:49).

Episode 1.17 picks apart the newest GoT trailer (0:40), waxes poetic about a fantasy birthday (1:57), pours over the MLB standings (3:00), banters about a frozen treat in Atlanta (4:45), pitches the idea of a pitching faWAR model (6:43), revisits the early season Ks analysis (18:50), gets excited about the NBA draft results (29:20), and ends on a review that’s best up in the air (32:02).

Episode 1.16 basks in the glory of Prince Night (0:40), admires the fashionability of the Washington Senators’ hats (3:00), applies some faWAR (fantasy wins above replacement) metric cleaning (5:12), creeps on some minor leaguers (18:05), banters about the NHL draft (28:37), and ends on a berry unexpected review (30:28).

Episode 1.15 evaluates sith inspired Patriots memes (0:40), banters about their trade deadline (2:25), owns up to an ownership model oversight (5:26), presents the eHR (expected home run) predictive model (15:10), rages against the dying of the NBA finals (27:20), and ends with a local review (29:46).

Episode 1.14 ponders algorithm bounties (0:39), questions the importance of the Volquez no-hitter (2:05), adds some new Tolkien to the reading list (4:07), applies PCA (Principle Component Analysis) in the quest for Bastardos (6:05), revisits the runs forecasting work (17:37) and speculates on a few Runs based player targets (26:54), snoozes through some NBA Finals banter (31:04), and ends with a debate about the best melons (32:27).

Episode 1.13 talks body slamming (0:37), extols the new GoT trailer (1:35), poses new over/unders (5:33) for a few perplexing pitchers (6:00) and a few head-scratching hitters (14:06) from a recent clustering update, peeks in the bet box (19:12), bats around some MLB topics (32:46), reports news from Jupiter (34:46), and ends on a ballpark staple (36:06).

Episode 1.12 explores the utility and beauty of locks on our Nation's waterways (0:40), plays with the concept of toxic assets in fantasy (3:30), tackles the elephant in the room: the DL (5:12), waxes poetic about pitch level stat stabilization using statcast data (14:58), poses potential Minnesota road trips (25:40), fights THE narrative dominating the NBA playoffs (27:20), and ends on a perplexing means of making money (28:55).