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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 4.16 - Way Older Than I Thought
4.16 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:39), tackles the sad state of a few NFL teams (2:16), dives into the Fantasy Toolz bet box for some conclusions…
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Episode 4.15 - Always have a colon in there
4.15 clenches for clinching season in the MLB (0:37), tackles some new Fantasy trailers (3:03), submits an abstract for the 2021 Sloan Sports Analytics…
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Episode 4.14 - Disappointment Has Not Fully Worn Off
4.14 visits the Water Garden Keep (0:40), eulogizes ignominious ends in the home league (1:34), kicks around a touch of Football (5:18), discusses Sloan Sports…
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Episode 4.13 - Back to Elementary School
4.13 peeks at the home league playoff situation (0:39), notes the coming of Fantasy Football season (2:49), bounces around the NBA playoffs (4:26), dusts off…
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Episode 4.12 - Above Average, Not Great
4.12 walks through the MLB standings (0:41), bats around some trade deadline talk (4:36), bounces around some NBA playoffs (9:00), charges through 5 Fantasy…
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Episode 4.11 - Not Hitting the Town
4.11 bats around some home league owned players (0:40), bounces around some other major sports (4:44), graphs launch angle as a function of launch speed with…
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Episode 4.10 - Planning Around the Median
4.10 spots Thunderstorms in the UK (0:39), notes seeing games postponed for COVID-19 in the box scores (2:59), presents statcast scraping improvements through…
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Episode 4.09 - Feel Conflicted
4.09 finds that baseball continues (0:40), lightens the mood with some fantasy scraps about Dune (3:49), does some statcasting (7:36), and reviews Archie…
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Episode 4.08 - Functioning as Constructed
4.08 remarks on the feeling of seeing baseball in 2020 (0:39), muses about “Serpentine” & similar books in Fantasy (5:28), peeks at the TGFBI standings (8:43)…
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Episode 4.07 - Fundamentally Rethink
4.07 gets into the minutia of the MLB returning (0:38), peeks at the Python item on the 2020 to-do list (5:46), dusts off the Zeitgeist scraper (8:56), and…
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Episode 4.06 - Who is on my team?
4.06 tackles sourdoughing during pandemic (0:40), finds food in the NBA bubble (3:50), seeks answers to the question: who is on my team (9:06), and…
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Episode 4.05 - Fuzzy Numbers at its Finest
4.05 alleges the return of Baseball (0:40), probes EuroVision Fire Saga (2:16), bounces around the return of sports (5:20), bats around some TGFBI preparation…
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Episode 4.04.1 - Westworld Season 3
4.04.1 knocks out some Westworld season 3 content covering 3.03 - 3.05. Will get back to Baseball and regular pods one day.
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Episode 4.04 - Value You Paid For Him
4.04 gets back into Westworld (0:41), bats around thoughts on the impact of a delayed season & unprecedented times on Fantasy Baseball (9:25) & Fantasy…
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Episode 4.03 - Agent Based
4.03 celebrates the successful completion of our respective TGFBI drafts (0:40), ponders the prospect of games played in empty ballparks (6:47), introduces…
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Episode 4.02 - Weird Distributions
4.02 bats around some MLB topics (0:40), walks through some TGFBI Catcher thoughts (6:04), wonders through some new updates to the 2020 projections model…
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Episode 4.01 - Same or Worse
4.01 discusses dating (0:41), bats around some baseball topics (2:22), jumps into the TGFBI draft (4:27), presents new, updated projections based on updated…
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Episode 4.00 - Pentagrams
4.00 tackles KDS in TGFBI (0:39), eulogizes BoJack (5:39), peeks at the first final draft of the Toolz 2020 projections (10:50), bats around some thoughts on…
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Episode 3.48 - An Entire Day With Us
3.48 touches on the most interesting story in the COVID-19 news (0:39), tackles the trade that wasn’t… then was (2:18), pokes at some season 3 stats (5:50)…
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Episode 3.47 - The Only Prize is Bragging Rights
3.47 bounces around the plethora of news this week (0:40), bats around some MLB topics (2:22), walks through home league keeper picks (5:10), announces TGFBI…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.46 - Reveling In This
3.46 notes the quality of the Timberwolves play (0:39), weighs the NFL Champion options (2:17), gauges BoJack preparedness (4:28), announces some sad Sloan…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.45 - Brute Force
3.45 wanders through the Astros suspension story (0:39), reveals which ad during the NFC playoffs was of most interest (1:49), airs concerns about the Sloan…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.44 - Whole Bunch Of
3.44 tackles the Rise of Skywalker (1:00) and talks some Baseball & Pod programming (24:19).
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.43 - A Book On Tape
3.43 jumps into some programming notes (0:41), reads through the Sloan 2020 paper submission: Predictive error estimates for baseball statistics using…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.42 - Helps a Degeneracy
3.42 bucks the typical show construction and talks HDM 0.5 (1:09), runs through some key MLB talking points from 12/10/19 (9:43), touches on Silicon Valley…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.41 - Scream Data Science
3.41 puts a little code discussion on ice (0:41), discusses the genesis of ‘Anbaric Development Partners’ name (1:45), bats around some MLB player movement…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.40 - Salient Question
3.40 sends everyone a Happy Thanksgiving (0:36), lingers beyond the WSJ paywall & talks SAT scores (1:06), walks through the projections modeling tuning for…
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Episode 3.39 - Better at Home
3.39 ponders what an MLB team would have to do to get a title vacated (0:39), binges & purges with some Vikings chatter (3:38), workshops some figures for the…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.38.1 - HDM 0.1 Pod Special
We discuss HDM 0.1 and Book Club: The Secret Commonwealth Chapters[24:]
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.38 - The Options Are Myriad
3.38 revels in the Brown is Back branding (0:39), feels the sudden culture overload between HDM/BoJack/Mandalorian/Podcasts/Silicon Valley (2:14), works…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.37.1 - HDM 0.0 Pod Special
We discuss HDM 0.0 and Book Club: The Secret Commonwealth (Chapters 11-23).
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.37 - Nail the Open Source Track
3.37 announces a pod special for HDM related matter (0:40), enters the House of the Dragon (1:12), scrutinizes the London Series 2020 (2:49), does some…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.36 - The Agile Professor of Certainty
3.36 glances at a flashing incident (0:39), book clubs The Secret Commonwealth 6-12 (2:07), announces a spot of Sloan 2020 news (6:57), bats around some…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.35 - Roses?! Botany?!
3.35 bats around the prospect of an MiLB shakeup (0:37), starts the book club (3:19), sketches out the projection system workflow (6:42), runs Eddie Rosario…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.34 - Bad For His Brand
3.34 bats around some random MLB playoff thoughts (0:39), unboxes The Secret Commonwealth (2:34), opens the Bet Box (4:16), and reviews Tommy Edman (24:08).
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.33 - We Just Didn’t Give Him Anything Last Year
3.33 updates everyone on last year’s World Series bet (0:38), gripes about TNF (2:34), discusses some way too early hitter prediction results (4:15), pokes at…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.32 - No Confirmation
3.32 acknowledges the end/beginning of the season (0:42), congratulates Todd Zola (2:10), peeks at TGFBI Toolz results (4:46), works off hangovers from…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.31 - Turn of the Millennium Numbers
3.31 congratulates baseball in the Upper Midwest (0:40), peeks at the Premier League table (2:53), brainstorms Erich’s Sloan Conference abstract (5:23), and…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.30 - Please Excuse the Dogs
3.30* finds Far Side news (0:38), revisits Westeros (2:02), announces some ST Paul news (3:32), discusses MP's Sloan Conference abstract (4:45), and reviews…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.29 - Pretty Darn Tight
3.29 welcomes back the NFL (0:42), ask “what’s up in TGFBI” for the Toolz (5:04), scrutinizes the TGFBI category stat correlation matrix (15:56), and reviews…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.28 - Review Review
3.28 stresses about the MLB playoff seedings (0:37), stares down the barrel at a new NFL season (2:29), reviews the new review session format (4:40), provides…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.27 - Sharpening the Axe
3.27 celebrates the return of content with Star Wars news (0:40), scrutinizes the new Breaking Bad venture (4:03), works on the website (5:05), plots every hit…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.26 - Team Doppelgangers
3.26 rediscovers Google Trends data (0:41), employs some scraping for grabbing current TGFBI rosters (3:46), investigates similarities in roster construction…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.25 - Shrinking Charts
3.25 punishes the new must add (0:42), peeks at the standings (1:52), glances at MLB attendance deltas (3:11), brainstorms SLOAN 2020 abstracts (4:49), posits…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.24 - Passing Acquaintance with the Strike Zone
3.24 bats around some TGFBI (0:41), predicts MLB Playoff seeding (1:55), digs through the top 15 pitchers (4:55), plots top 15 pitchers' pitches with spin rate…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.23 - Clever Cadence
3.23 hacks into a data theft story (0:40), tosses a Bauer segment out there (1:53), takes a gander at production in a team setting (4:00), synthesizes some…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.22 - None Are That Offensive
3.22 fields some Triple Play talk (0:38), finds the Westworld 3 Trailer (2:04), bales on some European Sport chatter (3:04), retroactively identifies which…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.21 - Standard Deviations Off
3.21 bats around some British sporting event news (0:40), scratches their heads over the ‘Current War’ advertising blitz in the UK (2:06), tackles Toolz…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.20 - Slotted In Variables
3.20 exalts Coco (0:37), sifts through the Kawhi news (2:04), talks TGFBI strategy (4:48), workshops what needs to be in an automated pitcher report (15:56)…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.19 - Advanced Data, Sign Me Up
3.19 remembers Skaggs (0:42), bats around Twins’ All-Stars nods (1:55), scrapes some MiLB data for second half adds (5:20), works through an example looking…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.18 - More Than You Naively Think
3.18 admires Mazara’s massive homer (0:38), wades through the Montas news (2:31), researches Sox/Yanks in London (3:42), revisits kPitching (5:05), runs…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.17 - Lost Technology
3.17 tosses around some Twins topics (0:37), brainstorms a possible Psi-Phi novel setting (3:17), tackles a new statcast analysis avenue: foul balls (5:15)…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.16 - Limit Your Query
3.16 bounces around some Durant thoughts (0:39), gives Solo another shot (1:20), hits some MLB topics (3:04), tackles Batting Order for fantasy category stat…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.15 - Higher Dimensional Plane
3.15 works through the Champions League Final (0:38), tackles global A4 utilization (1:41), jumps back into Westworld (3:59), presents a Bayesian modeling…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.14 - Pie Pod
3.14 theorizes writing Fantasy in Hobbiton (0:40), contemplates a petition for removing the GoT producers from future Star Wars projects (2:14), bounces around…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.13 - Fantasy Baseball Economy
3.13 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:40), puts a bow on GoT (2:06), frames a new large project: a holistic economic model for fantasy baseball (4:28)…