Sinopsis
To quote Dr. Evil, "The details of our lives are quite inconsequential." What's important is that we like fantasy, as it applies to the genre and the game derived from baseball statistics. We also enjoy developing analytical and computational tools for supporting the latter habit. Our goal is to share our fantasy baseball tools with a little help from the fantasy genre for context, allusion, and (fire and) ice breaking. In doing so, we hope to broaden the way our audience approaches fantasy baseball. Our podcast presents our methods to the public in the spirit of OpenSource - through freely helping others we promote active conversation that improves our tools.
Episodios
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Episode 8.16 - Accounting for Realized Stats
18/06/2024 Duración: 29min8.16 dusts off some MLB topics (0:35), peeks at the TGFBI standings (4:06), workshops rest of the season projections (7:29) , and reviews Tanner Scott (21:21).
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Episode8.15 - Makeup Choice
11/06/2024 Duración: 33min8.15 pops across the pond for the MLB in London (0:37), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:47), occasions the Acolyte (5:45), wanders through the value of some surprising top 40 players (10:25), and reviews Clay Holmes (27:23).
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Episode 8.14 - Much-Maligned Things
04/06/2024 Duración: 35min8.14 finds too much Yankee coverage (0:39), bats around some TGFBI (5:07), determines we should watch The Acolyte (6:57), mucks about in the much-maligned wins model (8:05), and reviews Ryan Helsley (28:10).
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Episode 8.13 - Adley Enough
27/05/2024 Duración: 28min8.13 scrutinizes some red crosses (0:41), ponders negative FIP (3:39), peeks at the TGFBI standings (5:42), bats around some scraping updates (8:54), and reviews Pete Fairbanks (21:42).
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Episode8.12 - BatCast
21/05/2024 Duración: 34min8.12 reads an article about homers (0:40), checks the TGFBI standings (2:23), finds some NBA adjacent Fantasy content (5:27), wanders into the new BatCast data release (8:21), and reviews Andres Munoz (21:45).
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Episode 8.11 - Chasing Guys
14/05/2024 Duración: 31min8.11 finds the Tales of the Empire (0:39), wanders through MLB storylines (2:20), bats around some TGFBI (5:40), works the betting line analysis into the MLB predictions automation (9:42), workshops TGFBI (13:27), and reviews Evan Philips (23:46).
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Episode 8.10 - Executed Appointed Game Plans
07/05/2024 Duración: 30min8.10 finds another Patriot League baseball standout (0:40), explores the corporatization of May the 4th (2:11), notes some TGFBI progress (4:53), presents a new wrinkle in the Wins modeling experiment: scraping MLB moneylines for determining crowd sourced MLB win predictions (6:58), and reviews Paul Sewald (22:00).
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Episode 8.09 - No Reason to be Careful
30/04/2024 Duración: 33min8.09 bats around some elite Fantasy Baseball performers (0:40), checks the TGFBI standings (3:45), wanders through players with the largest positive ownership deltas in April '24 (7:02), and reviews Jordan Romano (27:10).
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Episode 8.08 - Good Closer Size
23/04/2024 Duración: 32min8.08 bats around some early season MLB starts (0:38), drops in a look at the TGFBI standings then performs some early season TGFBI diagnostics (6:44), and reviews Jhoan Duran (24:36).
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Episode 8.07 - This week in Fantasy
16/04/2024 Duración: 29min8.07 ponders the early MLB call-ups (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:56), reveals the automatic MLB game predictor page https://fantasy-toolz.github.io/predictions.html (4:46), and reviews David Bednar (19:38).
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Episode8.06 - These Guys Are Brothers
02/04/2024 Duración: 33min8.06 welcomes opening weekend (0:39), bats around some Dune (3:03), peeks at the early batting order findings (6:22), and reviews Alexis Diaz (28:31).
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Episode 8.05 - Lightly Owned
26/03/2024 Duración: 32min8.05 wonders at Ohtani & Betts being on the same team (0:40), stumbles into some Fantasy news (2:47), wanders through some longitudinal ownership data (7:25), and reviews Raisel Iglesias (24:11).
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Episode 8.04 - Relative to the Hype
19/03/2024 Duración: 32min8.04 bats around some MLB preseason topics (0:38), finds where Disney makes money (4:27), wonders at some prospects by setting some lines on top prospects (7:25), and reviews Camilo Doval (25:27).
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Episode8.03 - Expert Opinions
13/03/2024 Duración: 33min8.03 finds the end of the TGFBI draft (0:38), peeks at Korea (4:14), runs through the MLB O/U lines to get a sense of team values (7:37), and reviews Emmanuel Clase (25:42)
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Episode 8.02 - Shelf Life
05/03/2024 Duración: 33min8.02 rejoices the return of TGFBI drafting (0:37), bats around the Acuna news (7:26), provides updates on the longitudinal pre-season Fantasy rankings (9:07), presents the TGFBI draft scraper (14:32), and reviews Edwin Diaz (25:29).
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Episode 8.01 - Slotting in Relievers
27/02/2024 Duración: 29min8.01 rejoices early spring MLB (0:39), notes TGFBI draft positions (3:36), watches the HOD season 2 teaser (4:27), realizes some relievers need slotting into the Toolz Top 100 (5:37), and reviews Josh Hader (20:21).
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Episode 8.00 - Introduction to the Postseason
20/02/2024 Duración: 35min8.00 ponders some Fantasy Baseball League workings (0:42), workshops the pitching side of the Toolz top 100 (3:24), and reviews Devin Williams (25:39).
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Episode7.48 - No Reason For Optimism
13/02/2024 Duración: 35min7.48 hopes that calling the SB winners portends good fortune for 2024 picks (0:34), bats around some MLB (1:45), orders machine generated batting predictions into top-60 hitter ranks (4:37), and reviews Patrick Wisdom (30:16).
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Episode 7.47 - Underlying Truths
06/02/2024 Duración: 29min7.47 finds some corner infield player movement (0:38), gives a prediction for the NFL final match (4:20) says so long and thanks for all the fish Chubbs (6:25) predicts 2024 PAs (7:43), and reviews Rhys Hoskins (22:54).
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Episode 7.46 - Can’t Afford Scales
30/01/2024 Duración: 29min7.46 finds an MLB name clone (0:38), sets a fantasy EPL lineup (3:17), reviews automated pitching rankings based on ‘real’ IPs (5:06), and reviews Eric Hosmer (21:38).