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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 PodcastEpisode5.36 - Some of the Best Performances
5.36 bats around some MLB awards talk (0:37), punts some Football talk (5:40), wanders around some lineup discussion (9:51), and reviews Andrelton Simmons…
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Episode5.35 - Throwing him at every position
5.35 congratulates the Braves (0:39), works through potential changes next season in the MLB (1:55), kicks around some EPL (3:33), spot checks the 2022…
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Episode5.34 - The upside is he’s 24
5.34 tosses around some World Series thoughts (0:38), kicks around some EPL (3:48), peeks through the pitching validation (5:58), and reviews Willi Castro…
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Episode5.33 - Validation
5.33 reviews the AL/NLCS picks plus picks a World Series team (0:38), reviews No Time to Die as well as Dune (3:54), kicks around some football (9:57), and…
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Episode5.32 - Preferred Rankings System
5.32 bats around some week one 2021 MLB Playoff talk (0:38), tackles some football (5:14), wanders through rankings data (7:57), and reviews Andres Gimenez…
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Episode.5.31 - Pushing Him Down to Second
5.31 scrutinizes the MLB playoff matchups (0:41), kicks around some EPL (3:23), dives into the Fantasy Baseball bet box (5:35), and reviews Jose Iglesias…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode5.30 - Make the Prediction and Go For It
5.30 tracks the evolving MLB playoff picture (0:39), kicks around some EPL (2:46), schemes the last TGFBI push (4:40), reads through the abstract for…
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Episode5.29 - Reining in the Scope
5.29 anticipates MLB playoff seedings (0:38), passes through some NFL (2:58), kicks around some football (4:58), prepares for the fall writing season by laying…
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Episode5.28 - Creating the tools to be able to create the tools
5.28 bathes in the imminent inundation of fantasy on the big screen (0:38), wanders through a quick query of top 5 hitters & top five pitchers over the last 21…
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Episode5.27 - Model Zero
5.27 eulogizes Fantasy endings (0:40), kicks around some EPL (2:18), turns the Wheel of Time talk (4:12), throws out the idea of agent-based modeling for game…
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Episode5.26 - Think in more than two dimensions
5.26 scrutinizes the “Brown is Back” campaign (0:39), kicks around some EPL (3:29), benchmarks a pickup model for pitchers in TGFBI (6:59), and reviews Ketel…
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Episode5.25 - Postmortem
5.25 connects Henri with Baseball (0:40), kicks around some EPL (2:38), postmortems the H2H case study results from the Toolz derby (5:18), identifies some…
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Episode 5.24 - Loser Goes Home
5.24 tosses out a first pitch (0:45), scrutinizes the recent no-hitter source (2:54), kicks around some EPL (5:30), provides a Fantasy playoff H2H matchup…
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Episode5.23 - Longer Odds
5.23 swabs the Yankees dugout (0:40), preps for the start of the Premier League (3:26), identifies some long shots for the Fantasy playoffs (6:21), and reviews…
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Episode 5.22 - Banished to the Void
5.22 seeks relief after the MLB trade deadline (0:39), seeks fantasy news from the Amazon LoTR series release date (4:21), seeks lineup clarity through some…
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Episode 5.21 - Extremely Sticky Substance
5.21 bemoans trade deadline impacts on Fantasy (0:42), torches the 2020 Olympics (3:46), notes the (Sir Gawain and) The Green Knight film (5:35), reads the NY…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode5.20 - Conflating Decisive and Demoralizing
5.20 talks obligatory ASG stuff (0:40), chants Bucks in 6 (2:37), performs a mid-season RP redraft (5:06), and reviews Didi Gregorius (18:47).
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Episode5.19 - The Right Periodicity
5.19 welcomes the MLB halfway mark (0:43), kicks around the Euro 2020 played in 2021 finals (4:36), bounces around the ‘21 NBA finals (6:42), wades through MLB…
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Episode 5.18 - The Greenlight is On
5.18 peruses the MLB league leaders (0:40), notes all the concurrent sport abounding (4:46), tosses TGFBI stats into a correlation matrix (6:40), and reviews…
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Episode 5.17 - On Track For
5.17 ponders the MLB ASG (0:38), notes the temperature of Euros picks (3:09), finishes Fall of Gondolin (4:39), compares preseason IP projections with on track…
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Episode5.16 - Cheap Device
5.16 ponders the dearth of MLB storylines (0:39), bounces around some NBA playoffs (2:47), flips through the Fall of Gondolin (4:49), works through some lineup…
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Episode5.15 - Should I Invest Effort
5.15 wades through the MLB scoreboards (0:39), kicks around some Euro action (2:32), opens The Fall of Gondolin (5:30), works through attacking mid-season…
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Episode 5.14 - Fought Over Hardly
5.14 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:37), procures “The Fall of Gondolin” (3:14), poses a prompt: state 5 potential “keepers” who are under 27 but not on…
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Episode5.13.0 - Children of Hurin Pod Special
Don't worry, our Children of Hurin conversation went deep and discursive. Most of our conversation ended on the cutting room floor. Here it is. Listen at your…
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Episode5.13 - Infer Everything Else
5.13 broaches how the Rays keep winning (0:37), lingers on Bobby Witt (2:25), concludes Children of Hurin (4:10), bats around some FAAB analysis in TGFBI…
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Episode5.12 - Lay Out Problem Statements
5.12 evaluates the results of the full season NBA O/U challenge (0:37), opens Children of Hurin (5:20), peeks at TGFBI (8:48), and reviews Gleyber Torres…
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Episode 5.11 - Laughter Died While You Were Asleep
5.11 notes the Red Sox surge (0:40), mourns the departure of Daren Willman for a Rangers front office job (2:34), takes a first look at the House of the Dragon…
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Episode 5.10 - Guys Are Diverging
5.10 bats around some TGFBI (0:38), presents the next Fantasy Book Club feature: Children of Hurin (3:44), compares pre-season PA projections vs pace (6:29)…
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Episode 5.09 - Sum of the Parts
5.09 sums the parts of TGFBI teams (0:35), notes that bad teams are doing well in the AL (5:20), rights the pitching ship by talking through 6 pitchers…
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Episode5.08 - Less Arduous
5.08 checks some COVID concerns (0:39), hits on Rodon’s no-hitter (3:51), pours over the LoTR show budget (5:20), talks trouble in TGFBI (8:20), and reviews…
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Episode 5.07 - Shadow IL
5.07 talks through the COVID19 IL (0:38), peeks at the Indiana Jones V news (2:34), opens the bet box (4:59), and reviews Myles Straw (22:06).
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Episode 5.06 - We’re not talkin’ tax law
5.06 welcomes baseball back by batting around some banter (0:39), notes the release of the Obi Wan series cast (3:13), squashes some batting order bugs (5:20)…
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Episode 5.05 - Predicts the Manager’s Head
5.05 bats around some injury news (0:37), ponders whether DC & Marvel news bears discussion (4:24), presents the batting order algorithm mentioned in 5.04…
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Episode 5.04 - Validation Point
5.04 validates picks through some spring training clip viewing (0:41), visits the first age by completing Beren and Lúthien (3:20), presents some guys…
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Episode5.03 - Synthetic Drafts
5.03 celebrates their completion of TGFBI drafts (0:40), bats around some spring training reactions (4:35), rifles through Beren and Lúthien (6:57), presents a…
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Episode5.02 - Filling Out The World
5.02 picks at some TGFBI picks (0:40), self-identifies favorite pick/worst pick so far (1:49), poses a new book club target: Beren and Lúthien (8:46), wanders…
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Episode 5.01 - Visual Aids
5.01 extols the return of baseball highlights (0:39), welcomes draft day in TGFBI (2:04), presents some visual aids for our forecast methodology (6:55), and…
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Episode 5.00 - 10 or 1
5.00 welcomes everyone into season 5 with some player movement banter (0:40), checks in on the Mandalorian (4:27), gets into draft prep mode with some rankings…
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Episode 4.36 - Frontloading the Thought
4.36 warms up around the hot stove (0:40), notes that TGFBI is back (5:41), kicks around some EPL (6:07), wraps up season 4 (8:09), and announces the season 5…
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Episode 4.35.2 - Closer Bonanza Chaff
4.35.2 announces the last (aka, the chaff) in the closer review series (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more…
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Episode 4.35.1 - Closer Bonanza 2nd Section
4.35.1 announces the second in the closer review series (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations are more dated than others)…
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Episode4.35.0 - Closer Bonanza Section 0
4.35 announces a special pod series aggregating the closer reviews from the season (note: these pods come from the last 12 months so some of the conversations…
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Episode 4.34 - Really Deep Question
4.34 bats around some MLB player movement (0:39), kicks around some football (3:10), presents Fantasy Toolz 2021 forecast rankings updates with new IP and PA…
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Episode 4.33 - Elegant System
4.33 bats around the Springer to TO news (0:40), works through NFL playoffs storylines (2:51), kicks around some EPL (4:40), obtains IP & PA consensus…
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Episode 4.32 - Let the data do the talking
4.32 tackles the NFL divisional round (0:38), kicks around some EPL (3:02), pokes around the new 2021 pitcher forecasts (3:47), and reviews Mat Barnes (15:41).
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Episode 4.31 - Who Looks Good in a Mets Jersey?
4.31 tackles NFL playoffs (0:40), makes EPL predictions (3:08), plucks players from the news for spot checking the rankings (3:59), and reviews Edwin Diaz…
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Episode 4.30 - Force to be Reckoned
4.30 reviews the HDM season 2 finale (0:42), kicks around some EPL (6:30), inches the 2021 rankings forward through tinkering with 2020/2019 weights in the…
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Episode 4.29 - Closers are Avocados
4.29 finds HDM 2.6 (0:40), kicks through some EPL (4:09), reboots the rankings (5:55), and reviews Josh Hader (20:03).
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Episode 4.28 - Hitting Their Stride
4.28 tackles HDM 2.5 (0:37), grimaces at the EPL results (4:23), debates using pitch fingerprinting for projections (8:21), and reviews Anthony Bass (12:53).
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Episode 4.27 - Ending Has Been Choreographed
4.27 wades through the new Star Wars content announcement (0:39), examines HDM 2.4 (3:58), kicks around some EPL (8:53), graphs heat maps of Ks & HRs over the…
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Episode 4.26 - Badly Determined
4.26 explores HDM 2.3 (0:37), revels in the StP Saints news (8:59), workshops some pitch fingerprinting oddities within the fourseamer data (12:12), and…
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Episode 4.25 - Always Tinkering
4.25 examines episode 2.2 of HDM (0:38), tackles some football (5:50), creates a corner plot of statcast pitching data (8:24), and reviews Hector Neris (21:53).
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Episode 4.24 - Outcome is a Boolean
4.24 welcomes HDM’s second season (0:37), kicks around some EPL (6:44), seeks a question for pitch arsenal analysis (9:44), and reviews Daniel Hudson (16:04).
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Episode 4.23 - Caveats
4.23 peers at the 2020 MLB awards (0:39), turns up the heat for a four-seamer discussion (4:40), and reviews Roberto Osuna (20:43).
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Episode 4.22 - Nonplussed
4.22 kicks around some EPL (0:39), notes the return of HDM with season 2 (3:01), deep dives a few ‘sinkerball’ pitchers (4:26), and reviews Sergio Romo (23:32).
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Episode 4.21 - Unenviable Job
4.21 mourns the life of the first James Bond (0:39), kicks around some EPL (2:29), continues the saga of sinkers vs two-seamers (5:04), and reviews Wade Davis…
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Episode 4.20 - Crude Approximation
4.20 notes the auspicious pod number (0:38), bats around some Rays/Dodgers mid-World Series thoughts (0:52), breezes through the EPL table (2:12), scrutinizes…
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Episode 4.19 - A Completely Statistical Game
4.19 kicks around some EPL banter (0:38), bats around league championship notes while prepping for the World Series (1:54), eulogizes the Sloan paper that was…
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Episode 4.18 - Work to hone the question
4.18 notes the moving back of big movie releases (0:38), celebrates the end of the NBA bubble (3:22), bats around the MLB playoffs (6:08), charts some next…
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Episode 4.17 - Is he a useful Fantasy tool?
4.17 walks through the MLB playoffs (0:41), kicks around some EPL (3:58), (w)raps on the TGFBI season (5:27), and reviews the Cards relievers: Giovanny…