Fantasy Toolz Podcast

Episode 9.16 - Only Doing Five Innings by Fantasy Baseball Discussions by Fantasy Toolz

9.15 feels the Burnes (0:37), notes some recent call ups (1:57), finds the TGFBI standings (3:20), walks through the recent trends in ownership (5:30), reviews Adolis Garcia (18:38), and reviews Jake deGrom (23:13).

9.14 finds a fantasy wasteland (0:36), fixes on futility in Coors (1:54), finds futility in TGFBI (4:26), fights through platoon analysis by looking at lineup appearance patterns (6:20), reviews CJ Abrams (17:41), and reviews Michael Soroka (25:44).

9.13 performs some PCA while batting around some hot MLB starts (0:38), visits the last three episodes of Andor season 2 (6:00), diagnoses TGFBI futility (12:02), reviews Dylan Crews (22:25), and reviews MacKenzie Gore (27:46).

9.12 starts with the Twins streak (0:39), glances at the TGFBI standings (2:14), watches Andor 2.7-2.9 (4:41), continues modeling MLB outcomes through winning percentage forecasting (12:20), reviews James Wood (24:26), and reviews Jake Irvin (31:17).

9.11 resolves the KC K conundrum (0:40), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:59), watches some more Andor (4:47), continues the “so I asked chatGPT” series by pondering agentic AI (10:42), reviews Mark Vientos (20:15), and reviews Griffin Canning (26:56).

9.10 reports on some baseball action (0:37), glances at TGFBI stamdings (4:13), watches Andor Season 2.1 & 2.2 (7:07), scrutinizes some batting order adjustments (11:53), reviews Zach McKinstry (17:11), and reviews Cole Ragans (23:26).

9.09 debates some closer struggles (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:12), turns the wheel finishing WoT season 3 (4:08), notes what ails two underproducing TGFBI teams (7:50), reviews Spencer Torkelson (23:35), and reviews Tarik Skubal (29:21).

9.08 peeks at the MLB standings (0:38), winces at the TGFBI standings (3:49), turns the wheel with WoT 3.06 (5:18), formalizes a sketch model for forecasting rest of season stats (6:53), reviews Wilyer Abreu (21:16), and reviews Ryan Pepiot (27:44).

9.07 solves an MLB mystery (0:39), marvels at a new banner (1:45), notes the names of the top 5 hitters (2:56), peeks at the TGFBI rankings (5:33), turns the Wheel of Time 3.04 & 3.05 (6:55), checks the MLB o/u tracking mechanism (12:55), reviews Francisco Lindor (22:26), and reviews Sandy Alcantara (27:40).

9.06 bats around the new bats (0:38), poses accountability in TGFBI (4:12), spins the Wheel of Time 3.03 (5:25), inventories the work the Toolz are doing that is available on GitHub (6:44), reviews Lawrence Butler (19:14), and reviews Bryan Woo (24:42).

9.04 bounces around some MLB notes (0:39), turns the Wheel of Time with 3.02 (4:07), pulls out names of players who either jumped or fell in value when compared with pre-season 2024 rankings (7:54), reviews Spencer Steer (26:48), and reviews Bryce Miller (30:15).

9.04 bats around some MLB storylines from Tokyo to Strider (0:37), checks the TGFBI pulse (4:28), turns the wheel of time into season 3 (5:37), tries democratizing data by asking chatGPT about the TGFBI draft postmortem (8:02), reviews Xavier Edwards (24:56), and reviews Luis Castillo (30:09).

9.03 bats around some early spring training stories (0:38), fills in the blanks describing the TGFBI draft (3:18), sifts through the early returns from the spring training batting order scraping (6:43), reviews Adolis Garcia (18:20), and reviews Logan Gilbert (25:46).

9.02 finds some spring training storylines (0:39), asks ChatGPT for help converting forecasted 2025 stats into rankings (6:47), reviews Jurickson Profar (22:39), and reviews George Kirby (26:45).

9.01 notes MLB teams for sale (0:38), welcomes all the spring training news (2:15), forecasts MLB pitchers using consensus expert IP projections focusing on pitcher 31-60 (5:22), reviews Jackson Chourio (20:08), and reviews Garrett Crochet (26:09).

9.00 scrutinizes PCA & Bregman (0:38), finds the start of our 10th season (2:50), presents probabilistic hitter forecasts using expert PA prediction averages (4:17), reviews Jarren Duran (22:19), and reviews Jack Flaherty(27:18).

8.49 bats around some MLB player moves (0:37), reviews the preseason wins projections for teams in the MLB (5:37), and reviews Chris Martin (23:50).

8.48 bats around some MLB player movement (0:37), bounces into the Luka trade (4:00), asks ChatGPT for some insights on some outstanding action items from the recent predictions rollout (5:51), and reviews Ryan Pressly (21:54)

8.47 bats around some MLB player moves (0:38), finds the fantasy landscape barren (4:56), presents the initial pitcher projections (6:53), and reviews Jeff Hoffmann (20:43).

8.46 bats around some MLB player movement (0:38), finds the end of Skeleton Crew (3:46), presents the 600PA version of the preseason 2025 predictions (6:58), and reviews Jorge Lopez (19:00).

8.45 bats around some MLB player movement(0:39), finds At Attin in Skeleton Crew (4:07), continues cleaning up the stat-scraping repository (7:25), and reviews Trevor Megill (19:45)

8.44 bats around the recent MLB moves (0:38), finds Skeleton Crew episodes 5 & 6 (3:50), reboots the batting order analysis with some GitHub updates (8:09), and reviews Ben Joyce (19:55).

8.43 bats around some MLB winter moves (0:38) , finds Skeleton Crew episode 4 (3:15), ponders AI as a Coach for fantasy baseball (5:11), and reviews Liam Hendriks (21:02).

8.42 bats around some winter 2024 player movement (0:38), jumps into Skeleton Crew 1.3 (4:46), posits AI as a creative in Fantasy (6:55), and reviews David Robertson (24:50).

8.41 bats around some MLB player movement (0:33), finds the Skeleton Crew (3:51), tackles AI as a tutor (7:24), and reviews Giovanny Gallegos (27:10).

8.40 tracks some early offseason player movement (0:41), finds the Skeleton Crew's new release date (4:45), opens AI month with a book review of “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" (6:23), and reviews Porter Hodge (28:09).

8.39 huddles by the hot stove (0:38), notes Dune Prophecy (4:10), continues the stat-scraping cleanup with a new pull request (6:17), and reviews Josh Sborz (23:56).

8.38 welcomes the hot stove conversations (0:36), continues cleanup month by looking through the stat-scraping repository (5:17), and reviews Felix Bautista (19:26).

8.37 trips over MLB award season (0:39), finds some Star Wars news (4:00), validates the MLB predictions from the season (5:20), and reviews Orion Kerkering (24:20).

8.36 congratulates the Dodgers (0:40), works through some items to get organized during the offseason (3:37), and reviews Jaden Hill (20:58).

8.35 wanders through some World Series ‘24 reactions (0:40), prepares for cameos in the Gollum movie (3:12), dives into how our ‘24 MLB pitching projections did on average (4:43), and reviews tommy Kahnle (24:20).

8.34 settles on the ‘24 World Series matchup while looking back at the conference championships (0:37), finds the upcoming Dune show (4:13), assesses: How did our projections do on average (6:37) and reviews Blake Treinen (25:18).

8.33 heralds the ‘24 conference championship series (0:39), rides slow horses to conclusion (3:07), peeks at the preseason ‘24 projections against full season stats (4:27), and reviews Lucas Erceg (23:33).

8.32 bats around some MLB topics (0:38), tackles Slow Horses Episode 4.5 & RoP 2.8 (3:48), performs a TGFBI ‘24 autopsy (10:20), and reviews Luke Weaver (24:29)

8.31 litigates the ‘24 AL Central (0:39), finds the ‘24 season spilling into an extra day (3:13), reports the TGFBI standings (3:51), finds the penultimate RoP season 2 episode (4:20), develops the mechanism for building a longitudinal dataset forecasting strikeouts weekly (11:24), and reviews AJ Puk (20:49).

8.30 bats around some final ‘24 MLB regular season topics (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (5:14), (6:56), starts modeling xHR - expected HR (11:42), and reviews Justin Martinez (24:45).

8.29 scrutinizes a fireable offense (0:42), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:57), fantasizes about dueling Elronds by covering Slow Horses season 4 & Rings of Power season 2 (5:35), continues modeling Ks by forecasting based on xFIP (11:00), and reviews Chad Green (24:00).

8.28 bats around some MLB storylines (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI (3:28), finds the Rings of Power season 2 episodes 3 & 4 (3:48), ponders what makes a great TGFBI team (9:38), and reviews Seranthony Dominguez (23:04).

8.27 jumps into Rings of Power season 2 episodes 1 & 2 (0:36), notes roster expansion (6:50), peeks at the TGFBI standings (8:50), dives into recent ownership deltas (11:47), and reviews Kyle Finnegan (29:32).

8.25 judges MLB storylines (0:39), peeks at TGFBI standings (3:50), prepares for Rings of Power season 2 (5:41), diagonalizes the matrix by modeling strikeouts as a function of advanced pitching stats (8:09), and reviews Hector Neris (25:05).

8.25 continues the Little League discussion foisting tradition (0:39), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings (2:52), peeks at Rings of Power (5:49), investigates 2024 K accumulation in Fantasy (6:55), and reviews Kirby Yates (22:51).

8.24 walkers through a Giant closer conversation (0:41), bats around the standings (2:32), scrutinizes TGFBI (4:40), peeks in the bet box (6:11), and reviews James McArthur (27:12)

8.23 wanders through the House of the Dragon (0:40), notes the White Sox streak (4:44), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings while diving deep on team construction (7:09) and reviews Michael Kopech (22:25).

8.22 flies through HoD 2.4/5/6 (0:39), bats around some MLB deadline trades (6:01), creates a benchmark Bayesian approach for dynamically forecasting games played for the rest of the season (9:55), and reviews Carlos Estevez (25:46).

8.21 ponders potential midseason MLB moves (0:37), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:11), finishes the Acolyte (5:29), flips through the recent ownership data for pulling out a few interesting player names (9:49), and reviews Alex Lange (22:15).

8.20 forecasts the derby hangover (0:38), glances at the TGFBI standings (4:25), checks the preseason PA predictions (5:37), and reviews Jose LeClerc (23:23).

8.19 finds some MLB stadiums (0:39), peeks at some TGFBI standings (4:38), catches up on some Acolyte (5:36), dives deeply into some MLB lineups: Red Sox, Reds, & Cardinals (9:00), and reviews Kenley Jansen (24:03).

8.18 bats around some MLB power rankings (0:40), visits Westeros (4:20), dives into TGFBI looking at possible paths towards better seasons (11:09) and reviews Adbert Alzolay (26:19).

8.17 scrutinizes some thought provoking posts (0:37), shrinks at the TGFBI standings (4:46), dives into the Acolyte (6:45), wanders through lineup order modeling for forecasting rest of season stats (11:48), and reviews Craig Kimbrel (22:07).

8.16 dusts off some MLB topics (0:35), peeks at the TGFBI standings (4:06), workshops rest of the season projections (7:29) , and reviews Tanner Scott (21:21).