Fantasy Football Team News

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 11 If in doubt, do nowt Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW11 In the end, the -4 for Salah was the wrong play and resulted in a small red arrow. Salah did score, and a 16pt return for our captain is no bad thing, but we’re gluttons for punishment, so let’s see what we could have won! We sold Son (10pts) and Fernandes (1pts) and brought in Palmer (2pts) and Salah (C) (16pts), factor in the -4 and on the surface, we look to have come out on top with 14pts vs the 11pts we would have had. Not so fast though. If we hadn’t brought in Salah, we’d have likely captained Haaland (16pts). Had we done that, we would have finished the game week with 78pts which is 13pts more than the 69 (-4) we ended up with. That score would have seen us jump to the heady heights...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 10 I tell you what’s amusing …. Welcome to FF247 Site Team Gameweek 10 When we come to write this when it is our turn to update you on the Site Team for the week, the top part says “amusing headline” – a sort of ‘insert funny name’ here part. The amusing part is that your author (GP) only realised Palace/Spurs was pulled forward to Friday when he went into check the first fixture for his Bundelsiga Fantasy Team for the week …. “Palace v Spurs, mmm, when did Flashscore start listing reserve games at the top. **PANIC** T-minus 150 minutes to deadline and here we are. I need a beer. We fell just short of the century mark this past week – 98 – but who’s complaining at that? A sizeabl...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 9 For whom the Bell tolls Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW9 There was us giving it the big ‘un’ about the early kick-off, and once again the curse was very real as our captain Son managed a paltry 6pts against Luton. Pah. The star of the show was a 9pt return from our keeper Sam Johnstone, but 6 pts from Trippier, Udogie and Maddison along with 5pts from Ollie Watkins was not enough to prevent a red arrow this week. Everyone else ended up with 2pts barring new signing Fabian Schar who went one better (worse) with just a 1pt return. We finished the week with 47pts, 3pts above the average but not enough to prevent a 10k red arrow seeing us drop from 27,566 down to 37,821. Not too bad in the end and we’ll look to get back to winning ways in GW9. Our G...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 8 We all dream of a team of Ollie Watkins’, a team of Ollie Watkins’, a team of Ollie Watkins’ ….. Welcome to FF247 Site Team – Gameweek 8 Guess who our star man was this week! Not that useless Norwegian lump, nor yesterday’s man Mbeumo, James Maddison or anything dressed in a Manchester United clown suit. Sir Oliver of Watkinsbrough. We love you. X 63 points overall with 23 (TWENTY THREE) from Aston Villa striker Watkins, including his second hat trick of the season, as he carried our attacking department. His nearest ‘challenger’ – Jarrod Bowen – was way back on 9 thanks to his goal against Sheffield United. For Watkins in attack, read Trippier in defence i.e. doing ALL the heavy l...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 7 Oh hell yeah! Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW6 How was our GW6 you ask? Well, if Carlsberg did game weeks it would probably look a bit like ours. We were awash with points from front to back, breaking the hundred point barrier for a cool 101pts. A clean sheet, save point and bonus point from Johnson (8pts), an assist and bonus from Estupinan (6pts) and double Newcastle clean-sheet with a goal from Botman (12pts) and a Hattrick of assists from Tripps (18pts). 44pts from our defence and keeper. Nice. Saka and Fernandes were the standouts in our midfield, netting 13pts and 10pts respectively. Maddison chipped in with two assists and 9pts whilst captain Haaland, did what he does best with a goal and 12pts. And to top it all off, Ollie Watkins only w...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 6 A good (game) week to have a bad week Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW6 We came out of the international break with high expectations for our team. It didn’t last long. GW6 was a rollercoaster of emotions (mainly bad ones) for many FPL managers and we were no different. In our defence, Matt Turner and Amari’i Bell might as well have stayed at home, contributing just 2pts each. Meanwhile, Ben Chilwell decided to make the aforementioned duo’s 2pts look like a mega-haul with a start from the bench, a yellow card and a not-so-grand total of 0pts – thanks Ben. In our midfield, it was starting to look like our team were members of some sort of secret club as Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford, and Bryan Mbuemo all chipped in with what was n...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 5 International (gimme a) Break Welcome to FF247 Site Team Gameweek 5 We return with a look at how our FPL team did in Gameweek 4, a time before South American teams began qualifying for the 2026 World Cup (no, really), when Italy didn’t beat North Macedonia (again) and poor old Harry Maguire lost to England (sorry Mrs M). Another gameweek where we could proudly boast that we beat (not smashed) the weekly average. Our 79 beats Joe Bloggs’s 72. This lifted us up to a season-high 104,106 and we turn attention to getting back in the saddle and cruising into the top 100k this week. Our main player, well everyone’s really, Erling Haaland took a 40 point haul into the break (in which he conitnued his scoring with his national team) and in...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 4 It was our Destiny Reading the above sounds so much better with a Yorkshire accent! What’s sweeter than a new defender (in our team) keeping a clean sheet? An assist and max bonus points that’s what! Yup, that’s our Destiny, what a guy! 12pts for new boy Destiny Udogie means it was another strong game week for us; 65pts was 21pts above the average and see us jump from 767,181 up to 117,056. Tidy. Other than the Spurs man we have to thank Chilwell (6pts) Fernandes (12pts), Saka (8pts), Rashford (7pts), Watkins (the standard 5pts) and our captain Halland (8pts). If only Haaland hadn’t brayed his penalty off the post (he is human after all) we could have had even more points on the board. We’re happy with our lot tho...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 3 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 3 Can’t be too bad a sign when your captain fails and you still amass a healthy 57 gameweek points. This usually means that one or two other have done the heavy lifting. Step forward and take your applause; Bryan Mbeumo (16), Pervis Estupinan (11) & Martin Odegaard (11). Bravo! Ollie Watkins (5) ‘only’ got an assist – but slow, steady and consistent we know he is – and he can’t play Hibs every game (!) The remainder were 1s, 2s and 3s inlcuding THREE Manchester United players. Two survive but these two have their cards marked. We sit healthily at 767,181 in the overall rankings ahead of Gameweek 3 …. where changes have been made …...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 2 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 2 First hurdle of 38 cleared. No fallers (injuries), and with the steady, experienced, consistent runners of Johnstone, Shaw, Estupinan, Mbeumo and Watkins jockeying for position, the big favourites – Haaland and Saka – have already broken into their thoroughbred stride. The Site Team opened up 2023/24 season with 75 points and we’re most content with that. Solid base to build upon, being as it is, 11 points above the average for the week. Erling Haaland was the obvious captain and those 26 points look neat on paper, but in reality with his ownership, it means you’re running to stand still so looking deeper into the team we must praise Bukayo Saka (10), Bryan...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 1 Our 2022/23 Overall Rank and Recent History Now last season did not go entirely how we would have hoped. There were more postponements, double gameweeks and players with well over 11 million playing the game so we will put our rank down to those issues. Unfortunately we ended up with a rank of 297,085 which is our worst rank in the nine seasons this team has been running. For that reason the big bosses have decided to bring me (MattX) in as they obviously need some help! Or more likely a scapegoat for whenever things go wrong. Initial set up To start things off we did a very basic add on the most obvious players of Haaland, Trent, Saka. Sprinkle in some more Arsenal in the forms of Jesus and Gabriel, toss in the template 6.5s M&Ms (Mitoma...[Read More]