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Here's your host, Duane Calendar.

Welcome to the show, everyone.

This is one of my more favorite activities just in terms of game theory and application and that is Fantasy Premier League.

Now, I know some of you are more used to fantasy football and

some of you are more than comfortable fantasy football and get offended when we bring up

NFL as fantasy football. So yes for the EPL purists are talking about

fantasy and are annoyed that I'm describing fantasy football as NFL and fantasy

P.L separately, I don't know what to do for you.

It is what it is guys. We're Americans over here. But the

EPL is back. We're going to talk about the EPL season in another episode I want to focus on the fantasy game just because there

are folks that spend months and months doing this and no disrespect to them because there are various ways you can build out your roster.

So just for those who don't know in Fantasy Premier League the setup is you have your allocation

of players, you're trying to fill up your budget because your overall budget for Fantasy EPL is 100 million pounds.

So you can allocate that across your entire roster because you got to draft two goalies, five defenders, five

midfielders, and three forwards. So for those of you who are not that a student

math that's 15 players just just so we have that clear so you got a hundred million pounds

Across 15 players all the players are ranked by teams. You can have a max of three players on a given team.

And again, you have to fill out those individual roster spots so you can't skip on any

spots you can punt certain positions with cheap players that's definitely a strategy

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