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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/14/15

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Dan Szymborski

1:05

It's only useful for baseball. It's not like it's a software platform

mtsw

1:05

Has any player taken issue with your projections of him, then angrily demanded you send him the .xls files so he can check your formulas?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Players generally know it's counter-productive to do this kind of thing.

Prince Nuada

1:06

Given that Mark Appel was something of a throw-in to the Giles trade, would Houston have been better off trading Appel, AJ Reed, Fancis Martes and Marwin Gonzalez to the Indians for Carrasco?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

If that had been actually unavailable.

Derek

1:06

You like gym shorts, but when was the last time you went to the gym?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

It was before Thanksgiving

greg

1:06

how much mlb network programming (not counting games) do you watch?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Quite a lot. My office has three large televisions on the wall and there's always baseball-related stuff on at least one of them

The Dude

1:07

Over/Under Stanton plays 100 games in 2016?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Over

The Cincinnati Kid

1:07

Are you able to run ZIPs 2017 projections? Not being a smartass, I'm just curious if the system can spit that out without having the 2016 data but aging the player by 1 year

Dan Szymborski

1:07

I have everybody's rest-of-career projections, which include 2017. I only release those when something interests me.

The Dude

1:07

Did you cause the first or second Boer War?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Both. The Second Boer War was the result of me trying to fix the previous war I caused. I stopped trying to fix the timeline after that

Which is why I would not kill baby Hitler. Baby Hitler may have been responsible for stopping Baby Super Hitler and I odn't wnat to make stuff worse

zips

1:09

say fangraphs had a meetup in cuba. would you go? (expenses paid by carson)

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Sure

OK, we're after one o clock

Let's do the Lightning Round.

1:10

The rules for the Lightning Round are simple: I must answer any question, so long as it is off-topic, with the exception of a few categories (very personal things, work related stuff)

and GO.

Eric

1:10

Are you excited for the FF7 remake?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

No, as I think they're action-RPGing it up.

mtsw

1:10

How do you feel about Woodrow Wilson's recent tumble in evaluations of his Presidency? Traditionally, he ranked as a borderline top-10 President but now, people have become uncomfortable with his extreme racism. But it's not like people are only now discovering that he was a racist (or that racism is wrong). What gives?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I'm not sure why he's back in the news. He always was a giant racist.

mtsw

1:10

A panhandler claiming to be a homeless veteran asked me for change the other day. I didn't have any cash so said "sorry, nothing on me" and he shouted after me "god bless! Vote Trump!" Do you think the "vote Trump!" was sarcastic or not? I honestly can't tell.

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I'd have to hear the panhandler's tone of voice

Mark

1:10

Pick your favourite 3 new LoE Hearthstone cards.

Dan Szymborski

1:11

Reno Jackson, Dark Peddler, Museum Curator

Sean

1:11

Be honest. The advantage to your working-at-home lifestyle is that you can play video games whenever you want.

Dan Szymborski

1:11