5.20 talks obligatory ASG stuff (0:40), chants Bucks in 6 (2:37), performs a mid-season RP redraft (5:06), and reviews Didi Gregorius (18:47).

Episode5.20 - Conflating Decisive and Demoralizing

6.00 welcomes the new pod season with the prospect of canceled regular season games (0:43), hails TGFBI day (1:56), devises a new tool for EPL tracking (4:18), presents progress in the development of the player picking ABM including the first 1,000 synthetic 2022 pre-season drafts (7:14), and reviews Gerrit Cole (26:52).

Episode 6.00 - Baking Those ABM Pies in the Sky

6.08 traces some MLB storylines (0:39), notes some top fantasy performers (5:06), presents a few blind profile comparisons through the player A vs player B device highlighting some small number statistics(8:34), and reviews Adam Wainwright (24:49).

Episode 6.08 - Player A vs Player B

7.05 anticipates MLB opening day ‘23 (0:40), concludes Fall of Numenor (3:05), steps back for an exercise in predicting team quality posing the question of whether the team makes the fantasy player better or the fantasy players make the team better (7:11) including a walk through of MLB preseason over/under lines (11:00), and reviews Jose Abreu (21:01).

Episode 7.05 - Market Guesses

7.17 bats around some MLB topics (0:38), checks TGFBI standings (6:10), scrutinizes some summary Stolen Base stats (7:15), and reviews Jake Cronenworth (21:14).

Episode 7.17 - Should/could be more SBs

8.07 ponders the early MLB call-ups  (0:38), peeks at the TGFBI standings (2:56), reveals the automatic MLB game predictor page https://fantasy-toolz.github.io/predictions.html  (4:46), and reviews David Bednar (19:38).

Episode 8.07 - This week in Fantasy

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).

Episode 8.31 - Forecasting Strikeouts 2

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).

Episode 8.36 - Gets Organized

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).

Episode 8.39 - Childlike Empress

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).

Episode 8.40 - AI book review: Co-Intelligence

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).

Episode8.41 - AI as a Tutor

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)

Episode 8.48 - So I asked ChatGPT

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).

Episode 9.06 - The Bats

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).

Episode 9.15 - My Team and My Team

Episode 9.16 - Only Doing Five Innings

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).

Episode 9.17 - Should I Have Known?

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).

Episode 9.18 - Better Than The Worst Teams

Episode 9.19 - At-Bat Indicator

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).

Episode 9.20 - Doing It Right

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). 

Episode 9.21 -Sophomore Slump Experience

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) 

Episode 9.22 - Closer Bloodbath

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).

Episode 9.23 - Pelt Him With Balls

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).

Episode 9.24 - Significant Drop

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)

Episode 9.25 - King of Disaggregate Analysis

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).

Episode 9.26 - No More Preamble

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).

Episode 9.27 - Concentrated Dose of Stolen Bases

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).

Episode 9.28 - One Sympathizes

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).

Episode 9.29 - How is he that old?

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)

Episode 9.30 - 7,000 ABs

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).

Episde 9.31 - Easy Grader

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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