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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 3.12 - The Ascendancy is Incredibly Fast
3.12 bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:39), creates a correlation matrix of all the TGFBI scoring categories (3:59), tackles some recent risers & fallers in…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.11 - Guys on the Fringe
3.11 tackles the Tolkien movie (0:41), wades through the Royal Baby betting markets (2:20), scrutinizes ownership (4:01), peruses some example ownership…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.11.1 - GoT 8.4
3.11.1 addresses GoT episode 8.4 and makes some predictions
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.10 - Cold Numbers
3.10 delves into the TGFBI standings (0:38), opens the bet box for: resolved bets (3:43); heading towards resolved bets (7:40); medium-term & long-term bets…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.09 - Winning Distributions
3.09 opens with a note to catch the pod special on GoT 8.2 (0:38), bounces around some NBA playoffs (0:46), talks through the meta-game of TGFBI through 4…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.09.1 - GoT 8.2
3.09.1 puts the Fantasy back into Fantasy Toolz with GoT episode 8.2 breakdown and 8.3 postulation.
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.08 - Hampering Interpretation
3.08 notes the pod special covering Star Wars & GoT (0:40), jumps into a statcast data primer (1:45), ponders some outliers (11:45), and reviews Cody Bellinger…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.07.1 - GoT 8.1
3.07.1 rises into some Star Wares IX teaser talk (0:17) and explores GoT episode 8.1 (5:45).
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.07 - The Eponymous Middle Reliever
3.07 reminds everyone about the wonders of checking your own work (0:42), tackles rounding 0.5 in modeling (2:58), numerically identifies Bastardos from week 1…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.06 - The Waif
3.06 experiments with a road pod recording in the same room (0:56), bounces around some NBA topics (1:50), reprises the great Word Series wager from 2018…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.05 - Hidden Levels (AC: Artificial Neural Networks)
3.05 heralds baseball’s official return (0:39), announces the release date for the 2nd Book of Dust (5:04), expounds on the week’s algorithm club topic…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.04 - Vacillating Between Different Rules
3.04 contemplates the Operation Varsity Blues scandal (0:37), takes off into the Max 8 skies (2:18), reminds everyone about the Japan games (3:18), bats around…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.03 - Did We Improve Our Understanding (AC: Mixture Models)
3.03 visits Westeros through the newest GoT Season 8 trailer (0:40) rejoices new baseball highlights (2:56), bats around some injury drafting game theory…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.02 - Perturbed by Tiny Forces
3.02 glances at a few MLB articles (0:39), exalts the marriage of His Dark Materials & HBO (3:39), bats around some drafting strategy (5:07), outlines how…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.01 - Your Eye Slides Off
3.01 peeks at Rex Chapman’s Twitter account (0:40), brews an AeroPress review (1:59), notes that drafts are live with thoughts on TGFBI, the home league, &…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 3.00 - Still Valid for Another Year
3.00 tackles the TGFBI wrinkle ‘KDS’ (0:40), reintroduces ourselves (4:41) while sketching out season 3 (7:35), models optimal targets for full season stat…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.51 - Second Order Tweaks
2.51 welcomes the arrival of pitchers & catchers (0:40), mentions the GoT catch-up schedule (1:27), bounces around some NBA topics (1:55), presents some…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.50 - Pure Numbers
2.50 ogles at the TGFBI league assignments & data prospects (0:40), bats around some MLB player moves (2:07), exalts our new, live projections (4:46), picks at…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.49 - Our Aiel Waste
2.49 welcomes a few TGFBI invite emails (0:39), bats around a few MLB player moves (1:45), throws some dirt on the grave of Python 2.7 (3:41), presents a…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.48 - A Madman Sees What He Sees
2.48 bats around some MLB players on the move (0:39), presents their groundbreaking cluster tree (4:58), slams in some projections planning (16:11), crashes…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.47 - Technical and Futzy
2.47 tackles the first GoT 8 teaser trailer release (0:40), analyzes the situation in Washington (2:05), presents innovations in pitcher clustering (5:06)…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.46 - No Ratio
2.46 dissects GoT season 8 teaser footage (0:40), doinks into some NFL playoff conversation (2:27), bats around pitching cluster development thoughts about…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.45 - Wide Error Bars
2.45 wishes everyone a Happy New Year & critiques EoY review articles (0:43), notes the end of the NFL regular season (2:29), discusses choosing the right…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.44 - Massive Intellect
2.44 wishes everyone Happy Holidays (0:40), revels in the dropkick in the Seahawks game & other NFL matter (1:54), bats around some fantasy rule change banter…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.43 - Buscemi Fortnight
2.43 ponders the Vikings playoff chances (0:40), considers Mortal Engines (3:00), presents a multiyear clustering exercise (4:53), contemplates some example…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.42 - Splitting Hairs
2.42 plunges through GoT scripts (0:39), follows Billy to Kansas City (2:25), workshops a 2D data comparison problem using RMS deviation (4:37), analyzes some…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.41 - Short and Sweet
2.41 mixes Timberwolves with Coolio (0:37), huddles by the hot stove (3:52), conquers some tech (15:12), and reviews RoTJ (16:22).
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.40 - Visiting an Old Friend
2.40 investigates the new Brave: Josh Donaldson (0:40) with an addition to the bet box (1:29), dissects the GRRM interview with Colbert (1:46), revisits the…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.39 - Severe Bone Structure
2.39 figures out the Paxton trade (0:40), gazes at the NFL scorigami graphic (2:35), wades through the 2018 pitching bet box (4:22), unearths the 2018 hitting…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.38 - Trouble in Paradise
2.38 glances at Oumuamua (0:40), critiques the Amazon HQ pick(s) (2:17), presents the Injury Update Scraper (5:03), studies a few example injury watch players…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.37 - Still Talking About Algorithms
2.37 discovers that the NFL season has passed the halfway mark (0:41), scrutinizes the moment America has been waiting for since 2016 (2:28), presents the…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.36 - Keep up with the News
2.36 visits the EPL (0:40), ponders the World Series (1:46), bats around some offseason goals (7:06), flags some offseason storylines to watch (14:48)…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.35 - Sometimes the Data Dictates the Analysis
2.35 reviews the Dodgers/Brewers series (0:38), flips through the fantasy section of the news (1:43), analyzes early ‘19 fantasy rankings (5:25) including…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.34 - Cringeworthy Ancient History
2.34 critiques job ads (0:38), explores the concept of what actually makes a ‘space movie’ (1:24), waxes poetic about the preseason consensus top 100 players…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.33 - The Field is the Brewers
2.33 tackles BoJack 5.5 through 5.8 (0:38), finds it Sanoing in the DR (2:48), bats around some LDS banter (3:27), peeks in the bet box (5:52), reviews some…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.32 - Not Remotely Findable
2.32 waxes poetic about 30/30 players (0:38), scrutinizes Khris Davis (4:25), kicks around some interactive graphics we’ve posted to our website (5:56), bats…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.31 - Data Viz
2.31 apologizes for being late (0:37), shares an article about the AL East Champions banner being held hostage (1:01), drink up the #GAB(eer)F hashtag (2:09)…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.30 - He's Beginning to Believe
2.30 delves into Matrix parallels (0:40), broaches looking at Daily Fantasy (2:18), analyzes Star Wars references by the DoD (3:14), critiques BoJack 5.1 & 5.2…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.29 - Misshapen Child of our Feeble Minds
2.29 looks at some recent Toolz approved player adds (0:41), critiques some 538 twitter feed action (3:16), presents a new series: visualization club (6:08)…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.28 - It's All in the Mind
2.28 complains about closers (0:37), finds K-Rod (2:16), skims WaPo’s article about baseball cliches (3:17), recaps Algorithm Club (4:54), thinks about the…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.27 - Weights and Biases
2.27 strategizes fantasy baseball through MLB standings watching (0:40), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge topic: Artificial Neural Networks (neural…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.26 - It’s Time for Time
2.26 bats around praise for the most recent triple play (0:40), ponders learning a new language (2:28), critiques Cat. 5e cables (3:46), introduces the week’s…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.25 - Ensemble Learners
2.25 visits DEF CON (0:40), weighs a steam locomotive argument (1:56), bats around some baseball topics (4:08), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.24 - Unsupervised Learning
2.24 glances at the MLB standings (0:39), postulates about the Premier League (3:50), introduces the week’s algorithm challenge topic: PCA (Principal Component…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.23 - Algorithm Club
2.23 critiques novels employing MLB fan cheap shots (0:37), identifies the Twins firesale (1:26), reviews an astronomical analysis of baseball stadiums (3:31)…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.22 - Naive Bayes
2.22 analyzes Jimmy G’s choice of lady friends (0:40), scrutinizes the sports eclipse (2:24), presents a new series: the algorithmic challenge (4:32), provides…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.21 - Error Functions
2.21 analyzes the new scandal in Washington (0:38), dissects the Matheny news (1:38), speculates Machado landing spots (2:37), revisits the Runs machine…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.20 - Newton Was Wrong
2.20 glances at the World Cup 2018 (0:40), critiques the ASG selections through a fantasy lens (2:03), summarizes salient points from the last few buy low/sell…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.19 - Boolean Bros
2.19 provides a bonus review session: road trips (0:39), mentions the Toolz Darby Redux (2:22), whips through some potential buy low pitchers (4:32), hits…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.18 - Threshold Logic
2.18 spoils Westworld (0:43), bats around the new MLB pitching strategy (3:56), ponders the conundrum: so you want to sell pitchers high (6:20), develops the…
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Episode 2.17 - Flowcharts, Clusters, and Sell High Batters
2.17 peers at the World Cup action (0:39), bats around some MLB topics (2:27), ponders the conundrum: so you want to sell high (5:04) and presents some…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.16 - +100 Keepers
2.16 drops into Westworld (0:40), fawns over the immaculate inning (2:23), announces the GoT spinoff (4:08), ponders the conundrum: So you want to plan for…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.15 - Trading Time
2.15 reports the versioning news of the day (0:40), takes the pulse of the dark v. light roast debate (2:39), ponders the conundrum: so you want to make a…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastPod Special 2.14.1 - Solo
2.14.1 extends our Star Wars conversation from podcast 2.14 and discusses Westworld. Caution: this is very unpolished and we go deep.
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.14 - Running Black Sun to Crimson Dawn
2.14 pits theoretical universe expansion options against one another (0:39), recognizes a week of bad beats for the Toolz in Fantasy (1:50), ponders the…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.13 - OWN3D
2.13 drops into Shogun World (0:41), tackles the Laurel Yanni debate (3:36), scrutinizes longitudinal CBS player ownership data (5:12), examines ESPN ownership…
Fantasy Toolz PodcastEpisode 2.12 - Eephus Pitches
2.12 wonders at the legalization of sports gambling (0:40), drops into Westworld (1:48), complains about recent DL moves (4:15), ponders the conundrum: so your…