Fantasy Toolz Podcast

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Synopsis

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.

Episodes

  • Episode 1.07 - Cripples and Bastards and Broken Things

    19/04/2017 Duration: 34min

    Episode 1.07 scrutinizes the Last Jedi trailer (0:42), reintroduces the Bastardo Strategy (5:03), forecasts RBIs (19:39), ponders wildlife’s place at ballparks (28:39), and ends on a dish best served messy (29:43).

  • Episode 1.06 - He Will Learn Patience

    11/04/2017 Duration: 33min

    Episode 1.06 suppresses nascent Corey Dickerson attraction (0:38), contemplates Tony Romo’s future (1:54), anticipates non-CGI Leia (3:33), urges everyone to keep the first week in perspective (4:47), investigates the mystery of ERA (17:48) while offering some regression candidates (21:48), reprises the highly anticipated weather segment (27:39), and ends on a fishy debate (29:07).

  • Episode 1.05 - Chasing Chimera

    04/04/2017 Duration: 31min

    Episode 1.05 plans a trip to Vegas (0:38), contemplates the implications of the new GoT trailer (2:14), continues the ADP (average draft position) analysis (4:23) with some season over/unders (8:12), worships at the altar of the king of stats - homers (15:09), plans statcasting optimal home run catching seats (24:49), reprises the highly touted soccer segment (26:00), and ends with some crock-pot recipe suggestions (28:05).

  • Episode 1.04 - Anticipating Feline Complications

    29/03/2017 Duration: 33min

    Episode 1.04 mourns the passing of a New English staple(0:41), gets Patriotic comparing WBC to a 12-team mixed league(1:17), contemplates prospect drafting(3:19), tackles the positional scarcity myth(5:03), forecasts WHIP(17:12), connects baseball to feline complications(28:31), and ends on a red smile inducing morsel(29:44).

  • Episode 1.03 - It's Treason Then

    22/03/2017 Duration: 33min

    1.03 uncovers some nerdy references on the internet (0:39), argues about late round upside pitchers (3:08), hits one into the middle infield banter (5:20), pits the toolz against one another in a 1v1 fantasy challenge (10:44), strategizes stolen base optimization (14:38), and wraps with a surprisingly unsalted conversation (29:40).

  • Episode 1.02 - The Great War

    15/03/2017 Duration: 37min

    1.02 scrutinizes the new GoT teaser (0:43), pits aging fantasy stalwarts against each other (2:30), forecasts Wins (6:15), promotes some new draft evaluation techniques (18:37), and wraps with a spongy sweet review (37:35).

  • Episode 1.01 - Don't Panic.

    08/03/2017 Duration: 34min

    Episode 1.01 has the toolz reading some large, friendly letters when confronted with web scraping. They contemplate the Sloan Conference (0:40), tiptoe back from the Price-ledge (1:35), evangelize the scripting language Python (3:44), scrutinize the wisdom of crowds through ADP (average draft position) (5:23), make some inferences about run projections (16:53), and wrap the pod (28:35) to end with a fruity review session (29:57).

  • Episode 1.00 - Ed Vanders Wand Emporium

    01/03/2017 Duration: 31min

    Episode 1.00 finds the toolz peering at the upcoming MLB season giddily. They extol the start of their league's rolling draft (0:40), wonder at Betances' public flogging (3:00), provide a bit of narrative background about the pod (4:10), prophesize K totals (12:43), and wrap the pod (24:03) to end on a sticky review session (27:21).

  • Episode 0.34 - A Bruise is a Lesson

    15/02/2017 Duration: 35min

    Episode 0.34 sets its sights on 2017 and sees the end of season 0.

  • Episode 0.33 - Well-Mannered Frivolity

    12/01/2017 Duration: 32min

    Episode 0.33 pours some out for the loss of a legend, the end of the year, and some wayward Blue Jays.

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