Hello and welcome to On the Corner, the official podcast, pitchers.com.

I'm your host, Eric Simulski, joined fresh off publishing an article, just a busy, busy workday for a man, Nick Pollack.

What is happening?

Yeah, it has been a whirlwind.

The past week, even, I dropped the top 400, and I realized I kind of needed to take a step back for a second. It's too much. And so I hadn't been doing the spring training articles and podcasts. And here I was kind of expecting to get back into it, say Monday, Tuesday. And we decided to go forward with this Twitter account, pictureless stats and just like, you know what? We want to get this

out there. Spring training has started. We have these really new player cards. And we didn't

really expect what happened at all, Eric. This is, I don't think anybody could have expected it. Eric, I... Guys, if you don't know this, I mean, I don't know how, because apparently the entire world knows it now. Yeah. We put out this, this Twitter account that we actually had before for PLV, but we just didn't really use it enough and whatever. And now we have Josh Sperry as a director of media, so like, we're like, all right, we can

actually focus resources into this.

And we have been working on these player cards, these picture cards for like months, like,

iterating the design, bothering Kyle Blaine endlessly.

Like little tweaks here and they're like, yeah, but we should have this or this.

Figuring out like what is the best way to do usage.

I mean, came up with this really cool thing of the total usage number in the middle and then the sides with the bars and stuff. Like all these little elements of this took ages. We put it out. And we had 800 followers. And within like an hour, we had, I want to say, I don't know, like 12,000. And we're like,

whoa, this is pretty cool. I remember going to bed. We put it out at like 2, 2.30 going to bed. And it was like a 25,000. And I said, this is insane. I woke up. It was 90K. We're at 112,000 now. Yep. And yeah, our model was bad.

Like we had a bug in it. That was like some overfitting. And it's a spring training thing.

It's different from our normal PLV model because it's just training. And Kyle Bland's computer also, like, is boot drive failed yesterday?

Among all of this chaos, you know, we felt so terrible for Kyle.

And people are acting like this is an AI model or something, which is no, this is the model we've been working up for ages.

You know, we started the project of PLV in this model since 2019.

And it was ridiculous.

So we're happy to say that I've, that, you know, we took some time.

We really like gather as a crew to like make sure we're doing this right.

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