2.02 banters about The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational (0:40), bats around some hot MLB topics (2:20), gets into fantasy with draft preparation musings (5:28), peers at Google News results (19:04), ponders Sherlock characters (28:06), and ends on a review of 300 (29:15).

2.01 reviews the @darenw stats by state series (0:40), notes that the Silmarillion is free for prime Amazonians (1:58) , gets into fantasy with understanding rankings (5:12), evaluates the ADP lag argument (16:05), announces the recent LoMo move (24:51), tackles AI for sports analysis (25:38), and ends on a review of The Matrix (28:10).

2.00 dives into the Ray Tank (0:41), glances at recent player movement including JD Martinez (2:47) & Eric Hosmer (3:42), lays out the season’s aim & mission statement (5:58), lays out the season’s theme: Getting into Fantasy (13:06), complains about ESPN for being behind on the fantasy baseball front (23:58), wonders at the new MLB pace of play rules (25:32), presents the new review session theme (26:43), and reviews a foundational text movie (27:33).

1.48 analyzes where Yu went (0:38) & whether late signing will impact other fantasy relevant free agents (1:07), gives PECOTA (2:16) and FiveThirtyEight a mention (3:00), brainstorms the next steps for the news scraping zeitgeist model (4:15), bids season 1 adieu (14:06), glances at keeper decisions (23:24), wonders at the “Hollywood” moniker for a handsome pitcher (26:17), and ends on an eggy debate (27:29).

1.47 finishes La Belle Sausage book club series (0:40), drops by Westworld (3:50), goes into Solo reflection (5:20), continues evaluating MLB player movement impacts on Fantasy value (7:22), runs through a keeper case study (17:39), tackles some SB topics (23:35), and ends on an evergreen millennial debate (26:47).

1.46 bids the Indians logo adieu (0:40), skates across the Thames through chapters 16-20 of La Belle Sausage (2:15), sketches out a model for determining MLB trade impacts on fantasy value (5:32), reprises the article review segment with some Brewers chatter (16:24), investigates Twitter bot acquisition (23:56), previews the final game of the NFL season (25:22), and ends on a creamy debate (27:39).

1.45 laments the NFC championship results (0:39), posits a fantastical sports analytics topic (1:41), previews season 2’s “getting into fantasy” series by talking about types of fantasy (4:28), peeks at transaction logs for web scraping (19:20), reprises the award winning book club section with chapters 11-15 of La Belle Sausage (24:43), and ends by rolling up a fruity review (29:53).

1.44 tosses some kindling on the hot stove (0:38), continues the book club with chapters 6-10 of La Belle Sausage (2:14), reviews a fantasy baseball article (6:00), picks at some of statcast's fielding data (16:13), ponders the NFL playoffs (24:18), and jumps on a gravy train (27:04).

1.43 dives into book club discussion on chapters 1-5 of the Book of Dust Part 1 (0:38), glances at way too early fantasy player ranks (7:27), pads the bet box (15:20), inspects NFL playoffs week 1 (24:50), and provides a kit review (28:20).

1.42 wishes everyone a Happy New Year (0:42), proposes a book club (2:49), debates thank you note writing (3:25), contemplates offseason baseball stats (4:31), sketches out 2018 pod plans (14:23), wraps the 2017 NFL season (25:50), and rolls up a raw debate (30:41).