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Fantasy Toolz Podcast

Fantasy Baseball Discussions by Fantasy Toolz

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.

Episode 10.21 - More TBF

10.21 Sales into MLB chatter (0:43), enters roster expansion season (5:37), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings (7:34), dusts off the hitter regression candidate analysis from earlier in the season (9:17), reviews Chase Burns (18:57), and reviews Matt McLain (28:12).

Aug 28

32 min

Episode 10.20 - Same Story

Episode 10.20 - Same Story by Fantasy Baseball Discussions by Fantasy Toolz

Aug 22

33 min

Episode 10.19 - Two Modes

10.19 bats around the trade deadline moves (0:42), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:20), visits Westeros 3.7 (3:55), continues poking at pitching regression candidate analysis (7:02), reviews Sean Burke (21:52), and reviews Munetaka Murakami (26:22).

Aug 8

33 min

Episode 10.18 - Chum in the Water

10.18 extols the ultimate grand slam (0:39), peeks at TGFBI (6:21), visits Westeros 3.5 & 3.6 (7:03), opens the bet box (10:32), reviews Ryan Feltner (35:23), and reviews Jake McCarthy (37:43).

Aug 1

42 min

Episode 10.17 - One Thing at a Time

10.17 takes little away from the ASG (0:41), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings (2:22), visits Westeros HotD 3.4 (3:31), continues the “so I asked ChatGPT” regression analysis (6:09), reviews Zach McKinstry (19:51), and reviews Casey Mize (26:10).

Jul 18

31 min

Episode 10.16 - Laying Breadcrumbs

10.16 ponders whether fantasy darling pitchers would be better on new teams (0:41), peeks at the TGFBI standings (4:48), wonders into Westeros 3.2 & 3.3 (5:26), workshops TGFBI teams (9:23),reviews Royce Lewis (22:07), and reviews Taj Bradley (29:27).

Jul 12

36 min

Episode 10.15 - Math It

10.15 notes the continuing soccer presence in MLB stadiums (0:41), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings (2:07), finds Westeros in flames HoTD 3.1 (3:54), slicks up some platooning work (7:15), and reviews Alec Bohm (17:49).

Jul 4

24 min

Episode 10.14 - Attack of the Bryces

10.14 wades into a sea of Blue Jay ASG ballots (0:37), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings (1:11), notices the World Cup impacts baseball (4:06), looks at ownership trends (5:13), reviews Jung Hoo Lee (20:44), and reviews Robbie Ray (27:42)

Jun 27

34 min

Episode 10.13 - Felix Leiter

10.13 bats around some MLB stats (0:39), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:35), explores XBH ratios (5:53), reviews Joc Pederson (19:51), and reviews Jack Leiter (26:11).

Jun 13

33 min

Episode 10.12 - Commander Cody

10.12 scrutinizes the top 10 over the last 28 days (0:41), peeks at TGFBI standings (4:47), reviews the new Star Wars movie (6:20), analyzes BABIP as a way for finding regression candidates (10:13), reviews Kyle Manzardo (19:13), and reviews Colin Holderman (23:33).

Jun 5

29 min