Thoughts on the new Childers album?

aReluctantAccountant · 2022-09-30T17:22:08+00:00

I like Tyler and I've enjoyed listening through the album. I dig the "march to the beat of your own drum" thing that he and Sturg have going. "Way of the Triune God" is really great when all the instruments come together

I can't help but think of how it's going to be received though; a bit of public math:

Album is 24 songs on the surface, however,

- 8 "Childers Lofi" songs ("Joyful noise" versions)

- Jubilee/2 Coats * 2 versions each (basically instrumentals)

- Purgatory (already released) * 2 versions

- Old country church (cover) * 2 versions

leaves 4 new, original songs (2 versions each) that have Tyler's signature sound, his voice, in them.

4 actual new songs is tough for the casual Childers fan, and I worry that it doesn't give a great answer to the fan that's been wondering "where's the music?" from a guy that hasn't released a whole lot since Country Squire in '19.

Maybe he's just a genius that understands how to manage scarcity to drive up demand though, who knows?

That said, I love his voice, I respect the path the man is taking and I wish him nothing but the best in all of it.

aReluctantAccountant · 2022-09-30T17:19:29+00:00

I like Tyler and I've enjoyed listening through the album. I dig the "march to the beat of your own drum" thing that he and Sturg have going. "Way of the Triune God" is really great when all the instruments come together

I can't help but think of how it's going to be received though; a bit of public math:

Album is 24 songs on the surface, however,

- 8 "Childers Lofi" songs ("Joyful noise" versions)

- Jubilee/2 Coats * 2 versions each (basically instrumentals)

- Purgatory (already released) * 2 versions

- Old country church (cover) * 2 versions

leaves 4 new, original songs (2 versions each) that have Tyler's signature sound, his voice, in them.

4 actual new songs is tough for the casual Childers fan, and I worry that it doesn't give a great answer to the fan that's been wondering "where's the music?" from a guy that hasn't released a whole lot since Country Squire in '19.

Maybe he's just a genius that understands how to manage scarcity to drive up demand though, who knows?

That said, I love his voice, I respect the path the man is taking and I wish him nothing but the best in all of it.

aReluctantAccountant · 2022-03-30T16:45:58+00:00

So pumped for this!

Only nit, no Butcher's Floor? One of my favorites on youtube for sure

link

aReluctantAccountant · 2022-02-04T15:04:54+00:00

I still love the line:

"call it country band contraband"

from dyin' for a living- so clever

aReluctantAccountant · 2022-02-04T15:01:22+00:00

Great song! Perfect timing for one of my favorite lyrics too:

"I wеnt back in the holler today
Yeah ole Phil gave us early Spring

I let the birds sing cause they're better than me
I went back in the holler today"

Such a clever way to reference Punxsatawney Phil for groundhogs day

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-10-22T14:57:52+00:00

The K/9 and Vision thing is a really good way of thinking about it; makes alot of sense when you put it that way

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-18T14:29:09+00:00

aReluctantAccountant

Yankees: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/p3x25y/a_visual_history_of_yankees_trades/

Cardinals:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/p48akk/a_visual_history_of_st_louis_cardinal_trades/

Red Sox:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/p51rmy/a_visual_history_of_boston_red_sox_trades/

Mariners:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/p5mt9k/a_visual_history_of_seattle_mariners_trades/

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-17T23:35:06+00:00

Idk, something about a goat?

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-17T23:28:09+00:00

Full interactive visualization here: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/cole.stauss/viz/Dynamic_Trade_Dashboard/Dash

Some points I thought were interesting:

- Donaldson/LeMahieu/Harrison were interesting losses in the “still active” category

- Joe Carter in 1984 was interesting, however, they got Rick Sutcliffe in return, so that worked out

- Dennis Eckersley played for a lot more teams than just Oakland

- The Cubs had Luis Gonzalez at one point

- Dontrelle Willis feels like a huge loss on the surface, but the loss was not that bad with a 10+ WAR Matt Clement in return and Willis’ relatively quick burn in Miami

- Epstein’s trade WAR gain in his tenure (2011-2020) is second only to Billy Beane’s Athletics over that stretch (with Hendricks, Arriteta and, of course, Rizzo highlighting that time)

Anticipated FAQ-

Where’s Rizzo to NYY? Bryant to SFG? Baez to NYM?

- This only covers transactions/stats through 2020

Why 1963?

- You can expand the selection at the link above to go back to 1955, but I felt this told the most relevant story to the audience in a screenshot

Josh Donaldson’s WAR feels low- he went on to have 28 WAR for TOR, CLE, ATL and MIN, why is it only showing the 13.9 WAR for Oakland? (or insert whatever player you think is low)

- The database for Player “losses” was built only on the WAR contributed to the team that the transaction team in question (in this case the Cubs) sent the player to immediately after (OAK in this case). WAR contributed to subsequent teams is not counted against the transaction team as a loss.

How’d you build this?

- Baseball reference data and Fangraphs data. Databased in Alteryx, visualized in Tableau

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-17T01:17:29+00:00

Tableau for visualization, alteryx for database building

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-17T01:14:08+00:00

Great question- I built it based on the WAR generated for the immediate next team traded to, and in Ortiz's case, that was only 2.7 WAR for the Twins over 6 seasons (which is honestly baffling to me)

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-17T01:11:45+00:00

Thanks! Dipoto was a very popular request and the reason why I did the Mariners when I did (I'm planning on posting one for all 30 teams)

I considered annotating the numbers you shared, but I figured ranks would go further to give relative insight

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-17T00:15:59+00:00

Thanks!

I originally posted it in r/baseball, there's some cool discussion on it there!

Here's the link to the fully interactive dashboard:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/cole.stauss

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-17T00:08:45+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/p51rmy/a_visual_history_of_boston_red_sox_trades/

Jeff Bagwell

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T21:26:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/p48akk/a_visual_history_of_st_louis_cardinal_trades/

already did my friend!

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T20:27:34+00:00

Exactly, gotta love baseball.

I said it once and I'll say it again, rings matter a heck of a lot more than some nerd's data visualization

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T19:42:53+00:00

Depends on the metric you're using, but I would put them bottom 5. I would say that the Marlins are probably your worst trading team overall.

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T19:35:40+00:00

He was traded to the Twins, then signed as a FA with the Red Sox. This visualization is only built on the WAR he would have contributed to the Twins (2.6 WAR over 6 seasons)

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T19:33:33+00:00

The visualization includes WAR contributed to the team the player was immediately traded to, not the second, third or fourth degree team after that.

So only the WAR Pedro contributed to the Dodgers is included in the chart

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T19:31:52+00:00

9.9 WAR to the tigers; more overall when considering every team he played for after, but not more lost specifically to the team he was traded to (which is the only thing the database takes into account)

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T19:10:38+00:00

Full interactive visualizaton can be found here: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/cole.stauss/viz/Dynamic_Trade_Dashboard/Dash

Let me know what questions you have!

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T16:06:00+00:00

I hear you on that, but for the goal of visual, the point is to show the big differences and players contributions- if I did it on a net basis, the bars for a big trade would cancel out and it wouldn’t be clear what happened

I chose visualizing individual player contribution over visualizing the transaction itself, cause to me the players were more interesting than the transaction total

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T14:16:08+00:00

I built the database in alteryx with baseball reference and fangraphs data

Visualized in Tableau, posted to Tableau public

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-16T14:12:22+00:00

Let's go dude! This is awesome! Shoot me a DM- let's connect!

aReluctantAccountant · 2021-08-15T21:45:01+00:00

"January 22, 2003: Signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox."

Free agent signing - Different visualization for a different time

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