Hey, Lachita, I'm welcome to the always cheating podcast.

My name is Josh.

I'm here with Brandon.

Brandon.

How are you? I'm greatating podcast. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon, how are you?

I'm great, Josh.

Welcome to Tinker season.

Yeah, my prediction was that this week would be the week that interest in fantasy

Premier League explodes.

So, you know, I don't know what that means exactly. Maybe we just get a few more

retweets. But I think you were looking at the number of managers who have joined the FPL game

so far, which you can see if you go to your FPL team page, upper right corner, and we're just under

two million. And you'd expect that number by the end of the season to be around 8 million managers. So I predict this is the week where that number is just going to start ticking up, up, up. Yeah, I think that's right. I just feel like it's hard to like totally gauge this stuff, I mean, other than how many people actually join the league. But I just, I feel like I like leagues are, you know, like like many people who've

been doing that game for a long time.

Like I'm in like a bunch of various leagues that are started by various people. I think like the emails are starting to roll out this week. Like, all right. Hey, like we're kicking, you know, we're starting things back up. I mean, only psychos, like us in a handful of the people,

actually start doing fantasy stuff in June, right?

Most people, sanely, are like,

hey, let me wait until, like, the season's a month out before I start. Yeah. Doing serious planning. So, yeah, I think you're right. I think we're at, I think we'll be around 3 million managers by the end of next week. That'd be my guess. And I think we'll start the season around 5 million, maybe higher. I mean, we'll see. So yeah, I think it's, it's, you know, it's obviously, we wanted to, you know, you want to get out, I guess this is now our fourth or fifth podcast that we've done since the season launched. But, you know, for us, part of it's like getting into midseason form. Like I feel like, It's like, it's like preseason for us where this is now the third podcast you and I've done this week because we did the the team

period is part one and then we did our Patreon pod and then and then this one and so I think you and I need

it to like you know we need to get that like those reps in you know it's like it's like working out

match fitness Joshua yeah exactly so we did a podcast really this week we predicted the Premier League We do. It's like working out. Match fitness, Joshua. Yeah, exactly.

So we did a podcast earlier this week.

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