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 7.45 - Completing the Journey
23/01/2024 Duración: 32min7.45 ponders some MLB questions including who is hosting the ‘24 ASG (0:38), predicts IP for starters in ‘24 (5:31), and reviews Spencer Steer (23:14).
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Episode 7.44 - Big Moves, Little Man
17/01/2024 Duración: 33min7.44 finds some Fantasy news chatter about Star Wars (0:43) , bats around some MLB topics (4:43), ticks forward the development of a consensus rankings tracking tool (8:33), and reviews J.D. Davis (23:06).
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Episode 7.43- Close Enough
10/01/2024 Duración: 34min7.43 follows a few more offseason MLB moves (0:37), reacclimates to the 2024 teams by scrutinizing batting orders & pitching rotations (6:00), and reviews Luke Voit (30:12).
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Episode 7.42 - Passing Some Muster
04/01/2024 Duración: 32min7.42 dives into some preseason ‘24 signings (0:37), continues workshopping preseason pitching rankings by tinkering with weights (5:05), and reviews Carlos Santana (24:07).
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Episode 7.41 - Delta of Deltas
19/12/2023 Duración: 27min7.41 gives a quick MLB hot stove update (0:39), compares 2023 & 2024 preseason rankings while eyeing a longitudinal tracking tool (4:08), and reviews Christian Vazquez (21:20).
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Episode 7.40 - Rankers to Consensus
05/12/2023 Duración: 33min7.40 predicts some MLB offseason player movement (0:37), tries some new queries on the 2023 MLB ownership data (7:25), and reviews Brandon Belt (26:01).
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Episode 7.39 - Next Stop, Prison
28/11/2023 Duración: 28min7.39 looks into offseason MLB pitcher movement (0:34), peeks at the NBA (2:53), slams together some way too early 2024 SP predictions (4:31), and reviews Wilmer Flores (22:09).
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Episode 7.38 - Everybody Looking 600
22/11/2023 Duración: 32min7.38 huddles up to the hot stove (0:40), kicks around some EPL (3:28), wanders through “Too Early” 2024 predictions (5:40), and reviews Garrett Cooper (23:50).
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Episode 7.37 - Select Guys That Look Like Alek Manoah
14/11/2023 Duración: 30min7.37 congratulates all the newly hired managers (0:40), probes the longitudinal ownership data that has accumulated over the season (3:35), and reviews Isaac Paredes (21:44).
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Episode 7.36 - All Sorts of Stuff
07/11/2023 Duración: 33min7.36 congratulates the Texas Rangers WS win (0:36), notes the release of Gold Glove awards (1:56), scrutinizes Votto’s release (3:43), roots through the bet box (5:26), and reviews Brendan Donovan (27:58).
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Episode 7.35 - Applied Statistics
31/10/2023 Duración: 28min7.35 wades into the ‘23 WS matchup (0:38), intros Bayesian Stats 101 for Fantasy Baseball (7:03), and reviews Joey Votto (18:37).
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Episode 7.34 - Mutually Exclusive
16/10/2023 Duración: 34min7.34 bats around some MLB ‘23 Championship Series talk (0:35), tests one of the Toolz on their knowledge of the ‘23 FBB season (4:18), and reviews Juan Yepez (27:30).
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Episode 7.33 - Too Many Shortstops
11/10/2023 Duración: 34min7.33 bats around some MLB ‘23 divisional playoffs (0:37), concludes Ahsoka season 1 & WoT 2 (4:22), does a postmortem on the Toolz TGFBI performances (11:17), and reviews Matt Mervis (28:04).
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Episode 7.32 - Skip the Pitchers
03/10/2023 Duración: 32min7.32 welcomes the ‘23 MLB Playoffs (0:40), says so long to Tim (1:26), checks the final TGFBI standings (3:07), turns the wheel on WoT & Ahsoka (4:15), posits potential Fantasy MVP candidates (7:19), and reviews Alex Kirilloff (25:05).
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Episode 7.31 - Pivoted So Hard
28/09/2023 Duración: 32min7.31 reads an MLB article about incredible stats (0:39), checks the TGFBI standings (5:23), rounds up WoT/Ahsoka episode 6s (6:55), wanders through players straddling AAA & MLB across hitters & pitchers (11:08), and reviews Wil Myers (24:27).
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Episode 7.30 - Going to the last day
19/09/2023 Duración: 27min7.30 finds clinching season in the MLB (0:34), checks the TGFBI standings (1:38), provides quick hits on Ahsoka & WoT (3:36), explores some Runs summary stats (8:00), and Jared Walsh (21:09).
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Episode 7.29 - Rule Change Precipitates Change
12/09/2023 Duración: 30min7.29 reads a report on SBs (0:37), checks the TGFBI standings (2:11), wanders through Ahsoka & WoT (3:23), tosses around some top 20 SP lists from the last 6 seasons for predicting repeats (7:34), and reviews Spencer Torkelson (20:00).
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Episode 7.28 - Late and Pre-Processed
06/09/2023 Duración: 23min***Apologies for the audio quality**** 7.28 ponders the Astros/Rangers rivalry (0:35), check the TGFBI standings (2:32), wanders through Ahsoka Season 1 & WoT Season 2 (3:14), automates Minors callups analysis (7:39), and reviews Yandy Diaz (15:51).
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Episode7.27- Given up on K(aves)
03/09/2023 Duración: 29min7.27 drools over 30/30 seasons while anticipating a 30/60 club (0:37), reports on the gut punch feeling of Mookie in Fenway in a Dodgers uni (2:35), checks the TGFBI standings (4:54), wanders into Ahsoka (8:05), scrutinizes accumulating HR & SB in a weekly league playoff matchup from the waiver wire (9:53), and reviews DJ LeMahieu (20:08).
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Episode 7.26 - Optimisation Problems
22/08/2023 Duración: 34min7.26 ponders SoCal baseball (0:37), checks the TGFBI standings (3:50), presents TGFBI pitching as an optimization problem (7:06), and reviews Trey Mancini (28:16).