Fantasy Football The FF247 Community Team
What do Heart of Midlothian, AFC Wimbledon and Galatasaray have in common?
They are all football clubs owned and operated by their supporters.
So?
So, I thought that seeing as this works brilliantly within (some) football clubs, then I wondered if this could be transferred to the fantasy world. A hugely talented fantasy player friend of mine first mooted this idea this close season and it got me to thinking, what if we did have our FF247 community represented as a single entity this coming season? I wondered if it could work. I wondered how it would work. I wondered if people would like the idea or how popular it could grow to be. I wondered if the FF247 Community Team could be the first supporter-owned team to win the World Title.
As far as I am aware, there is no other fantasy site with a community team. So are you with me?
Alright, first of all, the selection of everything to do with our team will be “one member, one vote”.
Basically if you go as far as to log in and leave a message to a supporter vote question, then you are a member.
So here is how it will work.
Initial selection
We will firstly vote to decide on our preferred playing formation.
The second vote will be to ask how you think the money in our team should be shared across all four playing positions.
Thirdly and most excitingly of all, the next vote will determine our first player.
I think it is fairest and most sensible to select players alternatively by position in turn beginning with strikers and working back through the team so we would vote thus:
Striker /Midfielder /Defender /Goalkeeper then returning to Striker to continue.
Ahead of each vote I would gauge the popularity of particular players through your discussions and early RMT enquiries and present to you a selection for you to vote for. The aim is to make the list as concise as possible but fear not there will be plenty of choice.
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Weekly selection
I will ask you to vote for one goalkeeper and one outfield player you WOULD PLACE ON THE SUBSTITUTES BENCH. This vote will indicate who the least popular players are for the week and determine the most popular sub – i.e. he who most of you think WON’T have a good gameweek, goes to the last place on the bench, next most popular goes second and third takes first outfield spot on the bench. Goalkeeper with most ‘sub’ votes takes the sub GK spot.
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Transfers
Each week there will be two transfer votes.
The first will ask “Who do you think should be sold from the FF247 Community Team?”
The second will ask: “Who do you think the FF247 Community Team should buy valued at £ ‘X’ ?
Multiple transfers (Points Hits), Wildcards and Chips
This is where it can be a bit hairy for us but not insurmountable – the theory will be that if at least five members request using any of the above, it will be put to a vote.
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Captaincy
We will use the existing captaincy poll on site and select the most popular player for that week who is in the FF247 Community Team. The second most popular within the team will be vice-captain.
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Summary
We will no doubt encounter little problems as we move along but where possible, I will always seek the advice of you, our members as to how they would suggest the problem dealt with.
I will be happy to address any issues or answer any questions you might have – leave them on our Community Team page which will be with us soon. If I don’t answer right away, please check back, I will answer.
I hope you will become involved with each vote as it appears. There may seem like there are a lot of votes but it will literally take you five seconds to take part as most of your replies will be one word.
This is intended to create additional interest away from our own teams, to not take itself too seriously or be bogged down with ‘what-ifs’. We should be democratic but not boring.
It is meant as a way for our fantastic community to bond further and with a bit of luck, to draw new visitors and encourage them to take part with us.
We may even be lucky and form a bit of a local FF247 fantasy rivalry as we progress…..
This is for you guys and your support is appreciated.
‘Your Team, Your Community’
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A word from FF247…
Team Management!
The Gallant Pioneer is your team manager for this one and he will be ably assisted by his two beautiful assistants in the form of NZAlex and Ellefcee. Please support them in this venture, it’s a brave new frontier but something that could work brilliantly given the community we have here.
Just one point though – the second you all start beating the site team it’ll be pulled quicker than a Jack Wilshire muscle 😉
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football The FF247 Community Team – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16. This article was written by The Gallant Pioneer
And follow your new Community Team on twitter here….
‘Beautiful assistant’, just call me Debbie McGee! When I initially thought of this a couple of years ago it was thought to be too difficult. We think we can make this work but please be patient.
It will be very interesting to see how a team that is run by the majority fairs. In other parts of life it has been shown to work, lets see if it does in this case. We are very excited by this venture.
Any questions, please ask.
Evening Debbie. Looking good.
Welcome to it guys.
Any questions? No? Excellent.
Phew 😉
Great idea guys! Should be a lot of fun, I’m looking forward to it this season
Veer
Good to see you back.
As a regular of our community, I hope to see you taking part in this.
Hello Veer, hows things pal?
Let’s play 2-5-3 in GW1
Cookie
That’s a given 😉
Morning GP, great to hear!!
Thanks to you & NZ Alex – it was Kiwi who I spoke to about this, around this time of the preseason I think – it was just decided that with it being FF247’s first full season we wanted to get off to to a solid and consistent start, which I think was the right decision then. A year down the line, GP jumps on board and Elle is recruited to collect tickets!
Good luck to the 3 of you for masterminding and managing the team (and the crowd!), really looking forward to seeing how the team does!
Haha
Alex knows how critical he was to this.
Looking forward to this
Sorry I meant this time last season!!
Huge congrats to you all for pulling it off, so to speak.
It’s the perfect addition to the site – after all, it could only work on a site with a strong, fun and friendly community, which of course you all are.
Now over to you guys!!
Cheers GP and Cooks, will be a great adventure. Especially with a site with so many managers who will have the right attitude to this. Bring it on
“I think in football it’s so important to work hard but also resting has the same importance,” Pellegrini told reporters.
“You have so many games throughout the year that if you don’t give them 30 days after they’ve finished their internationals, it’s very difficult for them to work hard.
“It’s more difficult for the South American players because Pablo Zabaleta, Martin Demichelis, Sergio Aguero and Fernandinho finished later, the first days of July, so they won’t have 30 days.
“I think when we return to Manchester they will start their pre-season. Maybe they will not be involved in the first game but I am sure they will work hard and will be involved as soon as they can.”
Aguero won’t play first GW !
Yash
Thanks for this. Rooney and Costa it is!
Maybe, I still expect him to be involved in GW 1 as I can’t see him not starting GW 2.
any chance Pellegrini’s taking press conference tips from Mourinho??
I like the idea but sounds very difficult… I guess if it can be done then you guys are the right people to pull it off. My worry is that the team ends up as a steady template type as it takes a discussion to take a chance/gamble as opposed to a vote that generally produces a predictable answer. I look forward to the first vote and look forward to seeing the team evolve.
Matt
Its all a step in to the unknown at this point.
Glad you’ll be here with us. Look forward to your voting.
Cheers mate.
Mag, and if that is the case of it becoming a template team, so be it.
I agree with you pal, will be very interesting to see how it develops.