Making Fantasy Fun Again

Always Cheating: A Fantasy Premier League Podcast

Always Cheating Media LLC

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Making fantasy fun has become a mantra on the Always Cheating podcast. But are Josh and Brandon actually having fun this season? GW30 was a test of patience for many FPL managers, which makes this the perfect time to check in on our mental approach to keeping the fantasy game in perspective. Plus, we discuss the newly confirmed doubles for GW33, giving us much to consider during this international break. Hail Cheaters!

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0:00.0	Hey, all cheaters. Welcome to the iOS streaming podcast. It is Sunday evening. I am recovering very slowly, Brandon, from Michigan State, losing to Duke in the college basketball NCAA tournament. But I'm here, and I have come out the other side. You know, I much like with fantasy, I am, I get very into it in the moment.
0:37.8	And as my wife said, I take it too personally. You know, I take it all too personally. But then once it's over, I really do shrug it off pretty fast. And that's where I am right now. I'm shrugging it off. Yeah. Feeling good about it. Game week 30 might take a little bit longer. But anyway, I'm Josh. Brandon, how are you? I'm good. I love the way you say
0:55.8	you take sports personally. It just reminds me of our friend who we met at the Emirates,
1:01.6	the flat cap, old guy sitting in front of us who was just like yelling. I can't stand it. And it was
1:07.0	like the the sports fan and not to denigrate them because I think we're identifying with those fans where part of the weird sick joy of being a sports fan comes from it all feeling like it's happening to you personally.
1:21.4	Yeah.
1:21.7	I think that's right.
1:22.5	You said something to me earlier when I was, I was bemoaning the Michigan State game.
1:27.0	And you said, well, you must enjoy it. There must be part of you that enjoys the feeling this way. And I was like, I think so. I mean, because I look forward to it, you know, and so, um, but, you know, it's like fantasy. Like I knew this was going to be a bad game week. And I would say it went worse than I ever could have possibly imagined.
1:44.5	I mean, I guess Sun getting a brace as my captain, you know, helped obviously a lot.
1:51.4	You know, but that happened in like the waning minutes of Game Week 30, right?
1:54.5	Everything up until the final like, you know, 45 minutes were awful.
2:00.0	And you're like Jonathan Wilson at that point,
2:02.2	you've already written the piece about what the game wake story is,
2:06.0	even though that brace,
2:07.3	that sun brace happens.
2:08.3	You're not going to go and rewrite the whole story of the game week.
2:10.9	And they were all assisted by Kane,
2:12.4	who I didn't have in my team.
2:14.8	You know,
2:15.4	but so I was just sort of,
2:16.6	yeah, it was just a tough game week
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