Welcome to the favorites, the podcast presented by Bet 365. We are part of the Action Network. I am Chad

Millman Chief Content Officer of the Action Network joining me today. Dude, this is such a big show.

My co-host, my companion, my compadry, my BFF professional, better Simon Hunter.

Hello Simon.

Hello, Chad, what are we six, seven weeks out from the start of the season brother?

We're almost there.

We are so close. Since we last spoke, Caleb Williams and Roman Dunezae have officially signed their

contracts with the Chicago Bears.

That's all I'm saying.

Next week, we begin our annual NFL division previews.

And so we want to seize the moment today as training camps open across the NFL to bring on two of my favorite colleagues could be action networks smartest people.

They're gonna discuss Simon I think you can you and I can agree

the luck rankings have revolutionized how we've looked at games the past couple of years.

This is like, it's very infrequent that a new stat is created that has such a huge impact on how we

look at the games and that is so accurate in terms of reflecting

quality of play quality of teams

Separating signals from the noise and how we do our jobs. You know I love it. I know that you love it.

Yeah, they've taken something that stupid people like me just say, well, I'm buying a loan a team and actually put some math behind it. So for years I always

talk about me and Chad love buying low on teams I get embarrassed especially in

prime time games and then here come a couple of geniuses that you can put the data

behind it and you know even

even when you don't even see an edge they come to us with these luck rankings we go

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