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Fantasy Toolz Podcast
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…
Episodes
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 9.16 - Only Doing Five Innings
Episode 9.16 - Only Doing Five Innings by Fantasy Baseball Discussions by Fantasy Toolz
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 9.15 - My Team and My Team
9.15 feels the Burnes (0:37), notes some recent call ups (1:57), finds the TGFBI standings (3:20), walks through the recent trends in ownership (5:30), reviews…
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Episode 9.14 - Three Young Guys
9.14 finds a fantasy wasteland (0:36), fixes on futility in Coors (1:54), finds futility in TGFBI (4:26), fights through platoon analysis by looking at lineup…
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Episode 9.13 - Make It Stop
9.13 performs some PCA while batting around some hot MLB starts (0:38), visits the last three episodes of Andor season 2 (6:00), diagnoses TGFBI futility…
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Episode 9.12 - Action Based Winning Percentage
9.12 starts with the Twins streak (0:39), glances at the TGFBI standings (2:14), watches Andor 2.7-2.9 (4:41), continues modeling MLB outcomes through winning…
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Episode 9.11 - AI Working Autonomously
9.11 resolves the KC K conundrum (0:40), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:59), watches some more Andor (4:47), continues the “so I asked chatGPT” series by…
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Episode 9.10 - How Many Ks
9.10 reports on some baseball action (0:37), glances at TGFBI stamdings (4:13), watches Andor Season 2.1 & 2.2 (7:07), scrutinizes some batting order…
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Episode 9.09 - Too Far Back
9.09 debates some closer struggles (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:12), turns the wheel finishing WoT season 3 (4:08), notes what ails two…
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Episode 9.08 - He is an angel
9.08 peeks at the MLB standings (0:38), winces at the TGFBI standings (3:49), turns the wheel with WoT 3.06 (5:18), formalizes a sketch model for forecasting…
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Episode 9.07 - Data Anomaly? No
9.07 solves an MLB mystery (0:39), marvels at a new banner (1:45), notes the names of the top 5 hitters (2:56), peeks at the TGFBI rankings (5:33), turns the…
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Episode 9.06 - The Bats
9.06 bats around the new bats (0:38), poses accountability in TGFBI (4:12), spins the Wheel of Time 3.03 (5:25), inventories the work the Toolz are doing that…
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Episode 9.05 - Changing of the Guard
9.04 bounces around some MLB notes (0:39), turns the Wheel of Time with 3.02 (4:07), pulls out names of players who either jumped or fell in value when…
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Episode 9.04 - Democratizing Data
9.04 bats around some MLB storylines from Tokyo to Strider (0:37), checks the TGFBI pulse (4:28), turns the wheel of time into season 3 (5:37), tries…
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Episode 9.03 - Where’s the but?
9.03 bats around some early spring training stories (0:38), fills in the blanks describing the TGFBI draft (3:18), sifts through the early returns from the…
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Episode 9.02 - Lookin' For Knuckleballs
9.02 finds some spring training storylines (0:39), asks ChatGPT for help converting forecasted 2025 stats into rankings (6:47), reviews Jurickson Profar…
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Episode 9.01 - People Agree
9.01 notes MLB teams for sale (0:38), welcomes all the spring training news (2:15), forecasts MLB pitchers using consensus expert IP projections focusing on…
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Episode 9.00 - Mature
9.00 scrutinizes PCA & Bregman (0:38), finds the start of our 10th season (2:50), presents probabilistic hitter forecasts using expert PA prediction averages…
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Episode 8.49 - Betting on the Logo
8.49 bats around some MLB player moves (0:37), reviews the preseason wins projections for teams in the MLB (5:37), and reviews Chris Martin (23:50).
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Episode 8.48 - So I asked ChatGPT
8.48 bats around some MLB player movement (0:37), bounces into the Luka trade (4:00), asks ChatGPT for some insights on some outstanding action items from the…
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Episode 8.47 - Looking at a lot of guys
8.47 bats around some MLB player moves (0:38), finds the fantasy landscape barren (4:56), presents the initial pitcher projections (6:53), and reviews Jeff…
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Episode 8.46 - High Dimensional Linear
8.46 bats around some MLB player movement (0:38), finds the end of Skeleton Crew (3:46), presents the 600PA version of the preseason 2025 predictions (6:58)…
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Episode 8.45 - Mismatched Literals
8.45 bats around some MLB player movement(0:39), finds At Attin in Skeleton Crew (4:07), continues cleaning up the stat-scraping repository (7:25), and reviews…
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Episode 8.44 - Batting Order Pre-Spring Cleaning
8.44 bats around the recent MLB moves (0:38), finds Skeleton Crew episodes 5 & 6 (3:50), reboots the batting order analysis with some GitHub updates (8:09)…
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Episode 8.43 - AI as a Coach
8.43 bats around some MLB winter moves (0:38) , finds Skeleton Crew episode 4 (3:15), ponders AI as a Coach for fantasy baseball (5:11), and reviews Liam…
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Episode 8.42 - AI as a Creative
8.42 bats around some winter 2024 player movement (0:38), jumps into Skeleton Crew 1.3 (4:46), posits AI as a creative in Fantasy (6:55), and reviews David…
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Episode8.41 - AI as a Tutor
8.41 bats around some MLB player movement (0:33), finds the Skeleton Crew (3:51), tackles AI as a tutor (7:24), and reviews Giovanny Gallegos (27:10).
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Episode 8.40 - AI book review: Co-Intelligence
8.40 tracks some early offseason player movement (0:41), finds the Skeleton Crew’s new release date (4:45), opens AI month with a book review of…
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Episode 8.39 - Childlike Empress
8.39 huddles by the hot stove (0:38), notes Dune Prophecy (4:10), continues the stat-scraping cleanup with a new pull request (6:17), and reviews Josh Sborz…
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Episode8.38 - Big Ole Zero
8.38 welcomes the hot stove conversations (0:36), continues cleanup month by looking through the stat-scraping repository (5:17), and reviews Felix Bautista…
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Episode 8.37 - Trophy Culture
8.37 trips over MLB award season (0:39), finds some Star Wars news (4:00), validates the MLB predictions from the season (5:20), and reviews Orion Kerkering…
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Episode 8.36 - Gets Organized
8.36 congratulates the Dodgers (0:40), works through some items to get organized during the offseason (3:37), and reviews Jaden Hill (20:58).
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 8.35 - Good on Good Teams
8.35 wanders through some World Series ‘24 reactions (0:40), prepares for cameos in the Gollum movie (3:12), dives into how our ‘24 MLB pitching projections…
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Episode 8.34 - Far more interesting games
8.34 settles on the ‘24 World Series matchup while looking back at the conference championships (0:37), finds the upcoming Dune show (4:13), assesses: How did…
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Episode 8.33 - And then there was one
8.33 heralds the ‘24 conference championship series (0:39), rides slow horses to conclusion (3:07), peeks at the preseason ‘24 projections against full season…
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Episode8.32 - Enumerated Role
8.32 bats around some MLB topics (0:38), tackles Slow Horses Episode 4.5 & RoP 2.8 (3:48), performs a TGFBI ‘24 autopsy (10:20), and reviews Luke Weaver (24:29)
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Episode 8.31 - Forecasting Strikeouts 2
8.31 litigates the ‘24 AL Central (0:39), finds the ‘24 season spilling into an extra day (3:13), reports the TGFBI standings (3:51), finds the penultimate RoP…
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Episode 8.30 - Not Made for HRs
8.30 bats around some final ‘24 MLB regular season topics (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (5:14), (6:56), starts modeling xHR - expected HR (11:42), and…
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Episode 8.29 - Dueling Elronds
8.29 scrutinizes a fireable offense (0:42), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:57), fantasizes about dueling Elronds by covering Slow Horses season 4 & Rings of…
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Episode 8.28 - Super Horse
8.28 bats around some MLB storylines (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI (3:28), finds the Rings of Power season 2 episodes 3 & 4 (3:48), ponders what makes a great…
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Episode 8.27 - Butterfly Warlocks
8.27 jumps into Rings of Power season 2 episodes 1 & 2 (0:36), notes roster expansion (6:50), peeks at the TGFBI standings (8:50), dives into recent ownership…
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Episode 8.26 - Curtail the Tail
8.26 judges MLB storylines (0:39), peeks at TGFBI standings (3:50), prepares for Rings of Power season 2 (5:41), diagonalizes the matrix by modeling strikeouts…
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Episode 8.25 Diagonalize the Matrix
8.25 continues the Little League discussion foisting tradition (0:39), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings (2:52), peeks at Rings of Power (5:49), investigates…
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Episode 8.24 - McArthur Foundation
8.24 walkers through a Giant closer conversation (0:41), bats around the standings (2:32), scrutinizes TGFBI (4:40), peeks in the bet box (6:11), and reviews…
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Episode8.23 - Dragon Budget
8.23 wanders through the House of the Dragon (0:40), notes the White Sox streak (4:44), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings while diving deep on team construction…
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Episode8.22 - Teoscar Hernandez Sized Hole
8.22 flies through HoD 2.4/5/6 (0:39), bats around some MLB deadline trades (6:01), creates a benchmark Bayesian approach for dynamically forecasting games…
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Episode 8.21 - Not Nailed Down
8.21 ponders potential midseason MLB moves (0:37), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:11), finishes the Acolyte (5:29), flips through the recent ownership data…
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Episode 8.20 - Perpetually Like
8.20 forecasts the derby hangover (0:38), glances at the TGFBI standings (4:25), checks the preseason PA predictions (5:37), and reviews Jose LeClerc (23:23).
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Episode 8.19 - Pages
8.19 finds some MLB stadiums (0:39), peeks at some TGFBI standings (4:38), catches up on some Acolyte (5:36), dives deeply into some MLB lineups: Red Sox…
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Episode8.18 - Stick Algorithmically
8.18 bats around some MLB power rankings (0:40), visits Westeros (4:20), dives into TGFBI looking at possible paths towards better seasons (11:09) and reviews…
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Episode 8.17 - Dynamic Team
8.17 scrutinizes some thought provoking posts (0:37), shrinks at the TGFBI standings (4:46), dives into the Acolyte (6:45), wanders through lineup order…
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Episode 8.16 - Accounting for Realized Stats
8.16 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
8.15 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…
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Episode 8.14 - Much-Maligned Things
8.14 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…
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Episode 8.13 - Adley Enough
8.13 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…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode8.12 - BatCast
8.12 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…
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Episode 8.11 - Chasing Guys
8.11 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…
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Episode 8.10 - Executed Appointed Game Plans
8.10 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…
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Episode 8.09 - No Reason to be Careful
8.09 bats around some elite Fantasy Baseball performers (0:40), checks the TGFBI standings (3:45), wanders through players with the largest positive ownership…
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Episode 8.08 - Good Closer Size
8.08 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…
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Episode 8.07 - This week in Fantasy
8.07 ponders the early MLB call-ups (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:56), reveals the automatic MLB game predictor page…