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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 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.

  1. 468

    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).

  2. 467

    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).

  3. 466

    Episode 10.11 - One of the Categories

    10.11 finds an old Brave (0:43), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:07), decides that renewed shall be scraper that was broken (4:04), reviews Luis Garcia (18:48), and reviews Cade Cavalli (25:07).

  4. 465

    Episode 10.10 - Third Catcher

    10.10 pops an MLB quiz (0:41), peeks at TGFBI standings (3:58), seeks out some regression to the mean candidates (5:12), reviews Ivan Herrera (20:33), and reviews Michael McGreevy (26:48).

  5. 464

    Episode 10.09 - On a Yo-Yo

    10.09 races through some hard pitches (0:41) scrutinizes recent run differential differentials (2:49) notes TGFBI standings (5:07) peeks at Fantasy doings (5:45) dives into TGFBI teams (6:55), reviews Kyle Isbel (25:57), and reviews Seth Lugo (39:49).

  6. 463

    Episode 10.08 - That Means Over Time

    10.08 walks through the MLB standings (0:39), glances at the TGFBI standings (4:40), spices up the ownership scrapers (6:54), reviews Luis Robert Jr. (20:19), and reviews Nolan McLean (26:20).

  7. 462

    Episode 10.07 - Very Sustainable

    10.07 ponders some young pitchers (0:40), scrutinizes TGFBI standings (3:44), analyzes HR convergence (6:18), reviews Liam Hicks (21:27), and reviews Sandy Alcantara (26:32).

  8. 461

    Episode 10.06 - Light Mode Kinda Guy

    10.06 poses Schlittler vs. Alcantara (0:38), scrutinizes TGFBI (4:16), asks ChatGPT for advice on fantasy WAR (7:15), reviews Alex Bregman (23:57), and reviews Cade Horton (29:33).

  9. 460

    Episode 10.05 - Really Tall Pirate

    10.05 extols the return of Baseball (0:38), enumerates the upcoming Fantasy properties (2:36), reintroduces the lineup of scraping tools (5:48), reviews Oneil Cruz (23:08), and reviews Bubba Chandler (29:39).

  10. 459

    Episode 10.04 - Not My Catcher

    10.04 bats around some WBC (0:41), meanders through a quick quiz (3:45), reviews Hunter Goodman (23:54), and reviews Victor Vodnik (28:55).

  11. 458

    Episode 10.03 - Measure of Asymmetry

    10.03 bats around some injuries (0:39), scrutinizes the TGFBI draft through statistical analysis (4:45), reviews Brice Turang (25:10), and Jacob Misiorowski (31:33).

  12. 457

    Episode 10.02 - Two Servings of (Ben) Rice

    10.02 bats around injuries & suspensions (0:38), talks through TGFBI drafting & automation (6:00), reviews Steven Kwan (23:07), and reviews Cade Smith (27:25).

  13. 456

    Episode 10.01 - Magic Eye Sense

    10.01 locks into ABS (0:37), visits Westeros with Dunk & Egg Episode 6 (2:57), leafs through the early returns of the preseason lineup scraping (6:30), reviews Brandon Nimmo (19:24), and reviews Nate Eovaldi (25:58)

  14. 455

    Episode 10.00 - No Touching

    10.00 throws back a beer filled conversation (0:43), visits Westeros in Dunk & Egg Episode 5 (3:25), focuses on draft prep (7:00), reviews Drake Baldwin (21:00), and reviews Spencer Strider (27:36).

  15. 454

    Episode 9.47 - Long Term Project

    9.47 bats around some MLB topics (0:36), visits A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms through episodes 3 & 4 (3:01), peeks at prior agent based drafting work (8:43), reviews Kyle Stowers (19:51), and reviews Eury Perez (27:12).

  16. 453

    Episode 9.46 - Enigmaticness

    9.46 sets some expectations for prospects (0:39), works through Dunk & Egg Episode 2 (3:03), considers adding polish to several tools (6:54), reviews Rafael Devers (19:05), and reviews Robbie Ray (25:39).

  17. 452

    Episode 9.45 - Jacob Coefficient

    9.45 scrutinizes the Gore trade (0:38), visits Dunk in Westeros 1.1 (2:54), updates the Alt Model’s pitching forecasts (6:20), reviews Jordan Westburg (18:24), and reviews Kyle Bradish (23:12).

  18. 451

    Episode 9.44 - Mathematically Doing the Right Thing

    9.44 warms up at the hot stove (0:40), formulates some full season win predictions (6:47), reviews Trevor Story (21:54), and reviews Brayan Bello (26:54).

  19. 450

    Episode 9.43 - Nestled Between

    9.43 tackles a baseball geography question (0:38), finds that winter is coming (1:56), adds meaningful denominators to the Alt model projections (3:45), reviews Zach Neto (17:33), and reviews Jose Soriano (24:51).

  20. 449

    Episode 9.42 - Sort By Best

    9.42 warms up at the hot stove (0:40), finishes the book of dust (2:41), dives into consensus rankings (6:08), reviews Manny Machado (20:40), and reviews Michael King (28:27).

  21. 448

    Episode 9.41 - Alt Model

    9.41 warms up around the hot stove (0:43), visits Lyra in The Rose Field (24-29) (6:30), asks AI about 2026 projections (9:45), reviews Trea Turner (26:17), and reviews Cristopher Sanchez (32:10).

  22. 447

    Episode 9.40 - Continue to Degrade?

    9.40 warms up by the hot stove (0:37), cracks open chapters 17-23 in the third Book of Dust (4:04), scrutinizes pitching forecasts (9:48), reviews Ronald Acuna Jr (20:36), and reviews Chris Sale (26:23).

  23. 446

    Episode 9.39 - Squashed Dynamic Range

    9.39 bats around some hot stove topics (0:45), cracks open The Rose Field 9-16 (2:49), pushes the first draft of the 2026 forecast run for hitting (6:44), reviews Cody Bellinger (18:35), and reviews David Bednar (25:35).

  24. 445

    Episode 9.38 - First Splash

    9.38 wades into offseason moves (0:41), cracks open The Rose Field 1-8 (4:00), dances around early ‘26 pre-season projections (9:38), reviews Kyle Tucker (20:34), and reviews Shota Imanga (24:19).

  25. 444

    Episode 9.37 - It Starts With Runs

    9.37 warms up by the hot stove (0:40), opens the Rose Field (3:35), ponders what makes a winning TGFBI team (5:18), reviews Yandy Diaz (18:24), and reviews Drew Rasmussen (23:02).

  26. 443

    Episode 9.36 - Obvious Trend

    9.36 wades through MLB awards voting (0:40), scrutinizes 2025 preseason predictions (5:17), reviews Geraldo Perdomo (19:35), and reviews Brandon Pfaadt (27:39).

  27. 442

    Episode 9.35 - Within Margin of Error

    9.35 rates the World Series (0:42), explores saves (5:31), reviews Noelvi Marte (20:11), and reviews Hunter Greene (26:50).

  28. 441

    Episode 9.34 - Middle Bins

    9.34 bats around some WS observations before game 6 (0:38), notes the Twins manager search (5:25), looks through the MLB prediction machine results (6:28), reviews Will Smith (19:07), reviews Tyler Glasnow (26:35).

  29. 440

    Episode 9.33 - Feelable Numbers

    9.33 bats around some MLB ‘25 Championship series (0:41), rides some Slow Horses (3:52), works through some descriptive statistics on Runs (5:55), reviews Nathan Lukes (19:44), and reviews Shane Bieber (26:46).

  30. 439

    Episode 9.32 - Dennis Green Player

    9.32 bats around MLB ‘25 playoff divisional round (0:40), continues cracking into curveball data (6:37), reviews Michael Busch (22:10), and reviews Matt Boyd (30:19).

  31. 438

    Episde 9.31 - Easy Grader

    9.31 bats around the first round of the MLB ‘25 playoffs (0:43), walks through a quiz on 2025 MLB full season (5:27), reviews Hunter Brown (21:53), and reviews Jose Altuve (28:19).

  32. 437

    Episode 9.30 - 7,000 ABs

    9.30 finds the Guardians in the playoff chase (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:09), rides the Slow Horses (3:38), analyzes the fullish season TGFBI category numbers (5:24), reviews Brayan Rocchio (20:11), and reviews Tanner Bibbee (26:05)

  33. 436

    Episode 9.29 - How is he that old?

    9.29 bats around the Guardians surge (0:40), tosses around some Kershaw news (1:52), scrutinizes the TGFBI standings (5:05), spots some Starfighter images (6:03), conducts a fantasy playoff matchup case study (7:02), reviews Bryce Harper (20:44), and reviews Walker Buehler (30:36).

  34. 435

    Episode 9.28 - One Sympathizes

    9.28 bats around some MLB topics (0:40), notes TGFBI stagnation (5:14), investigates the hanging curve (5:50), reviews Jeremiah Jackson (21:28), and reviews Trevor Rogers (26:31).

  35. 434

    Episode 9.27 - Concentrated Dose of Stolen Bases

    9.27 bats around playoff predictions (0:40), glances at the TGFBI standings (4:27), bonds over Bond news (5:48), investigates the stolen bases scene (7:15), reviews Andy Pages (22:20), and reviews Yoshinobu Yamamoto (27:49).

  36. 433

    Episode 9.26 - No More Preamble

    9.26 predicts prices for prospects (0:38), glances at the TGFBI standings (2:55), scrutinizes the relationship between walk & strikeout rates (6:33), reviews Freddy Peralta (18:05), and reviews Christian Yelich (25:05).

  37. 432

    Episode 9.25 - King of Disaggregate Analysis

    9.25 brushes on some homer topics (0:40), glances at TGFBI standings (4:37), scrutinizes decisions (5:30), reviews Max (20:45), and reviews Addison Barger (24:55)

  38. 431

    Episode 9.24 - Significant Drop

    9.24 brews some Brewers thoughts (0:44), notes the TGFBI standings (2:31), checks recent changes in player ownership (3:50), reviews Bennet Sousa (18:53), and reviews Mauricio Dubon (24:23).

  39. 430

    Episode 9.23 - Pelt Him With Balls

    9.23 wonders at the Blue Jays (0:41), notes TGFBI standings (3:54), finds a Rose Field (4:48), dusts off the binomial PA predictor (5:37), reviews Nick Kurtz (20:30), and reviews Luis Severino (26:27).

  40. 429

    Episode 9.22 - Closer Bloodbath

    9.22 walks through the Twins fire sale (0:41), peeks at the TGFBI standings (5:10), sorts through the bevy of player movement (6:18), reviews Ben Rice (20:41), and reviews Will Warren (27:40)

  41. 428

    Episode 9.21 -Sophomore Slump Experience

    9.21 takes in some Cape Cod Baseball League action (0:40), peeks at the TGFBI standings (3:30), works matrix magic into batting order similarities by team (3:50), reviews Jackson Merrill (16:56), and reviews Dylan Cease (25:46).

  42. 427

    Episode 9.20 - Doing It Right

    9.20 covers some Derby & ASG stuff (0:44), peaks at the TGFBI standings (5:00), continues the K rate deep dive (6:42), reviews Lourdes Gurriel (20:15), and reviews Zac Gallen (25:48).

  43. 426

    Episode 9.19 - At-Bat Indicator

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  44. 425

    Episode 9.18 - Better Than The Worst Teams

    9.18 notes the current MLB standings (0:41), peeks at the TGFBI standings (4:58), performs a stat deep dive on strikeouts (6:34), reviews Jacob Wilson (18:38), and reviews Jacob Lopez (25:10).

  45. 424

    Episode 9.17 - Should I Have Known?

    9.17 plays up the Padres/Dodgers rivalry (0:40), checks the TGFBI standings (3:00), models O/U lines (5:55), reviews Josh Jung (20:26), and reviews Patrick Corbin (26:23).

  46. 423

    Episode 9.16 - Only Doing Five Innings

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

  47. 422

    Episode 9.15 - My Team and My Team

    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).

  48. 421

    Episode 9.14 - Three Young Guys

    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).

  49. 420

    Episode 9.13 - Make It Stop

    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).

  50. 419

    Episode 9.12 - Action Based Winning Percentage

    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).

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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.

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