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 7.05 - Market Guesses
28/03/2023 Duración: 31min7.05 anticipates MLB opening day ‘23 (0:40), concludes Fall of Numenor (3:05), steps back for an exercise in predicting team quality posing the question of whether the team makes the fantasy player better or the fantasy players make the team better (7:11) including a walk through of MLB preseason over/under lines (11:00), and reviews Jose Abreu (21:01).
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Episode7.04 - Profound or Super Common Sense
21/03/2023 Duración: 30min7.04 bats around some WBC (0:38), reads some Fall of Numenor (3:14), worries about Mando (4:58), discovers correlations between hitting cats & team quality (7:19), and reviews Matt Olson (22:36).
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Episode 7.03 - Everyone is older than I think
14/03/2023 Duración: 32min7.03 bats around some WBC form questions(0:39), presents the next book club entry: Fall of Numenor (3:05), wanders through some TGFBI drafting summary stats (8:00), and reviews Paul Goldschmidt(21:57).
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Episode 7.02 - Spending Draft Capital
07/03/2023 Duración: 35min7.02 regales in MLB action (0:36), introspects the TGFBI draft progress (5:25), scrutinizes the Mando drop (8:15), presents incorporating drafting mechanics into rankings(11:00), and reviews Pete Alonso (27:01).
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Episode 7.01 - Where Pitchers Interleaved Batters
28/02/2023 Duración: 32min7.01 walks through some MLB changes (0:42), anticipates Mando’s return (2:57), combines hitter & pitcher rankings (5:41), and reviews Freddie Freeman (23:29).
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Episode 7.00 - Calm Down Algorithm
21/02/2023 Duración: 30min7.00 sets some intentions for the new season (0:36), notes that pitchers & catchers have reported (2:00), adjusts the algorithms hitting ranks (4:14), and reviews Vlad Guerrero Jr (22:34).
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Episode 6.45.3 - 2023 SP Reviews (11-15)
17/02/2023 Duración: 46min6.45.3 reviews Aaron Nola (0:03), Shane McClanahan(9:41), Jacob deGrom (20:41), Dylan Cease (31:37), and Yu Darvish (38:38).
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Episode 6.45.2 - 2023 SP Reviews (6-10)
15/02/2023 Duración: 32min6.45.2 reviews Max Scherzer (0:02), Shane Bieber (4:49), Alek Manoah (13:23), Brandon Woodruff (18:53), and Justin Verlander (24:12).
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Episode 6.45.1 - 2023 SP Reviews (1-5)
14/02/2023 Duración: 35min6.45.1 reviews Sandy Alcantara (0:04), Gerrit Cole (7:54), Shohei Ohtani (13:25), Julio Urias (21:33), and Corbin Burnes (29:46)
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Episode6.45.0 - Human Touching Things
14/02/2023 Duración: 20min6.45 runs through some MLB rule changes (0:35), introduces the Pod specials that will be released that include aggregations of pitcher reviews (4:05), presents top 2023 SP pitcher rankings (4:55).
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Episode6.44 - Absence of Field
07/02/2023 Duración: 35min6.44 bats around some MLB news (0:34), kicks around some football news (5:27), adds in some reality to IPs in our 2023 preseason projections (7:24), and reviews Tyler Glasnow (24:14).
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Episode 6.43 - The Limit of the Algorithm
31/01/2023 Duración: 33min6.43 bats around some MLB news (0:39), forecasts innings pitched through pitching order trends (5:40), and reviews Clayton Kershaw (22:49).
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Episode 6.42 - Nerdiest Looking Starting Pitcher
24/01/2023 Duración: 38min6.42 notes someone is homeward bound in the MLB (0:37), bounces around some NBA (4:28), continues forecasting plate appearances through games played & lineup order (7:02), and reviews Zac Gallen (27:45).
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Episode 6.41 - Per Year Basis
17/01/2023 Duración: 33min6.41 forecasts pitchers & catchers reporting(0:40), forecasts Plate Appearances through games played & lineup order (5:54), and reviews Pablo Lopez (24:45).
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Episode6.40 - Converting Projections into Rankings
10/01/2023 Duración: 32min6.40 starts with some MLB topics (0:36), ponders how projections should get converted into rankings (7:40), and reviews Framber Valdez (22:08).
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Episode 6.39 - Real, Live (2023) Projections
03/01/2023 Duración: 35min6.39 wades through some MLB news (0:38), breezes through HDM season 3 (4:18), kicks off 2023 projects by releasing initial 2023 projections (8:50), and reviews Justin Verlander (27:27).
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Episode 6.38 - Mothballing your fantasy season: Batting Order
13/12/2022 Duración: 35min6.37 breaks down the big hitter signings (0:37), kicks around some World Cup pulse checking (4:35), continues mothballing the ‘22 Fantasy Baseball season by talking about full seasons batting order analysis (7:56), and reviews Carlos Rodon (26:48).
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Episode 6.37 - Mothballing your fantasy season: Taconite Mining
06/12/2022 Duración: 28min6.37 breaks down the big Wong [and other] signings (0:39), kicks around some World Cup pulse checking (3:03), continues mothballing the ‘22 Fantasy Baseball season by talking about compiling [or not] data from the season that was to help inform decisions for the seasons that will be (4:12), and reviews Shane McClanahan (16:40).
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Episode6.36 - Mothballing your fantasy season: peeking at Free Agents
29/11/2022 Duración: 32min6.36 notes that Harper is going under the knife (0:39), cheers on the USA (3:44), continues mothballing the ‘22 Fantasy Baseball season by peeking at the Free Agent list (5:10), and reviews Alek Manoah (26:17).
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Episode 6.35 - Mothballing your fantasy season II: Burn Bieber Burn
24/11/2022 Duración: 35min6.35 notes end of ‘22 season hardware (0:38), talks about some soccer (4:13), continues mothballing the ‘22 Fantasy season by presenting some top 60 Fantasy Baseball ‘23 preseason rankings development (7:45), and reviews Blake Snell (28:06).