1.41 wishes everyone a Merry Happy (0:39), examines the NBA’s marriage to Christmas (2:00), struggles through a lean Fantasy Baseball news week (5:29), contemplates the ‘super seven’ concept (9:28), analyzes the distribution of global MLB hitting stats for Fantasy (14:31), throws water on the Vikings’ SB odds (24:22), says so long to the 747 (25:38), and fudges a review (27:28).

1.40 contemplates Kobe retiring two numbers (0:38), mulls Peter Jackson’s newest venture (2:10), debates MLB Winter Meetings player moves (3:52), deep dives on Star Wars Episode VIII (19:05), theorizes whether MSP will be ready for the Super Bowl (27:08), and ends with a caning (30:40).

1.39 breathes a sigh of relief that the Sloan Sports Analytics paper was submitted (0:39), considers MinneAnalytics Sportcon (3:06), ponders getting back into Fantasy shape (4:31) by discussing player moves (4:44) & what the pod can do for general fantasy preparation (15:24), blows off some Star Wars anticipation steam (21:14), and ends on a review that has everyone seeing red (24:33).

1.38 scrutinize the '18 Hall of Fame ballot (0:39), draft Ohtani landing spots (3:14) & notable free agent closer options (4:49), hold a Sloan Sports Analytics Conference manuscript writing project meeting (6:54), chew on some food for thought GC topics (15:40), banter about Twins & Sox off-seasons (24:40), take umbridge with Mpls Lakers throwback jerseys (27:15), and end on a tart review (28:22).

1.34.1 extends our Star Wars conversation from podcast 1.34 - skip over to 2:41 for new audio.

1.37 huddles round the hot stove (0:40), returns to Middle Earth (3:11), slings some growth chart development theory (6:39), scrutinizes age-based growth charts (14:48), bats around some Fantasy Football topics (25:19), and ends on a spicy debate (30:24).

1.36 celebrates the boys in orange (0:40), analyzes the Curse-shaw (1:36), snickers at the MLB awards finalists (3:25), contemplates MLB transaction logs (6:00), disaggregates the growth charts by position (14:39), considers discussing Stranger Things (23:15), prognosticates the 21st Century Fox acquisition (25:03), and ends on a layered debate (25:47).

1.35 wades through World Series topics(1:24), postulates ways of accounting for the DL in our growth charts (10:58), brainstorms some d3 for plotting our growth charts (18:13), dissects ‘Truly Madly Deeply’ (24:17), and ends on the great trick-or-treat candy debate (25:50).

1.34 reignites the Star Wars passion (0:40), bats around some World Series narratives (3:07), fawns over a Flower (5:28), plans the scope of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference manuscript writing project (7:20), brainstorms some visualization options and techniques (20:34), assesses the MLB manager tango (28:03), looks over the Golden Company’s payroll (29:50), and ends on a fruity debate (31:27).

1.33 concludes BoJack season 4 by discussing 4.11 & 4.12 (0:40), bats around some AL playoff topics (3:18), kicks off the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference manuscript writing process by diving into some Project Management (6:26), designs the growth curves (18:39) while searching for Mr. 50 [per]Cent (20:38), bats around some NL playoff topics (25:58), and ends on a sticky palm debate (30:02).