  We investigate the spectral form factor of the sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev
model. We use numerical methods to establish that at intermediate times the
connected part of the spectral form factor is the dominant one. These connected
contributions arise from fluctuations around the disconnected geometry, not
from a new saddle point. A similar effect was previously conjectured in SYK but
required a value of $N$ out of reach of current numerical simulations.
