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FF247 Site Team News GW3
FF247 Site Team News GW3 “Boast like hell” Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW3 They say that karma is a… well.. you know the rest, and after our barnstorming season that ended in the summer, it was a stuttered start with 48 points – nine below the average. Here we go, we all thought, this is what happens – something will find a way of bringing you back down to reality. Well, karma, you can stay away for longer because we were among those “jammy enough” (see the fallout on X, or Twitter, for further details) to triple captain Haaland and end up with a fantastic score of 103! Hello 100 Club! The Man City number 9 turned out to be an utter HaaLAD, as we believe the youth would say, scoring 17 which automatically turned to a fantastic 51. Sure, that means t...[Read More]
What Are the Challenges of Regulating Online Gaming Markets?
Online gaming industry and millions of users across the globe playing different types of games from casual mobile games, competitive eSports to real money gaming platforms. The global increase of the online gaming sector means that governments, and other regulators must introduce new regulations to make sure everybody plays fair. Despite that, governing online gambling markets remains a complex proposition. A Balancing Act This article makes an attempt to identify those challenges due to the incessant innovation that is driving the online gaming industry. Global Nature of Online Gaming These regulators also have a hard time enforcing their regulations in online gaming markets, which tend to cross country borders. When hosted in a different country, on the other hand, players can access gam...[Read More]
FPL Captain Picks GW3
FPL Captain Picks GW3 And the winner last week was of course… anybody who chanced the Triple Captain chip on Erling. 51 points if you did so, and you can happily chalk that off as a successful use of that particular chip for the season. After all, enough of us remember such DGW disasters as Kane with an assist, etc. The (only) downside there was that nearly everyone else captained him too, so just a 17 point jump start there. Whilst GW2 looked fairly obvious in the armband respect, GW3 looks less so. As such we have wheeled our team out to purvey the options for you. Off we go… Loud Atlas — Bukayo Saka v Brighton & Hove Albion No spoilers or anything, and sorry to disappoint, but Saka is going to be my vice captain this week. Yes, I can’t even persuade myself to look ...[Read More]
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW3
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW3 Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW3. Another week in the books and one that saw plenty goals in GW2. Thankfully we still haven’t witnessed a 0-0 result this season and in fact the only draw of the gameweek was the 1-1 draw of Bournemouth and Newcastle, and even that had a winner controversially ruled out! It was a case of copy and paste for Liverpool and Arsenal as they ran out 2-0 winners once more in their respective games. There were big wins for Man City, Spurs and Chelsea with 4-1, 4-0 and 2-6 wins. Not only were there plenty goals in the league there was plenty points in H&L with 24 managers getting double digit points out of the 54 participants. Of those 54, 12 got the FGS correct this week as Danny Welbeck poked home...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW2
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW2 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW2 WE hope that GW1 brought you many points, but even if not then don’t worry as we go again on Saturday with Brighton and Man Utd kicking off GW2 at 12.30pm. We then have five 3pm games with Palace v West Ham, Fulham v Leicester, Man City v Ipswich, Saints v Forest and Spurs v Everton. Villa and Arsenal finish Saturday off at 5.30pm. The remaining three games are all on Sunday this time as we have EFL Cup games this coming midweek. Bournemouth host Newcastle and Wolves welcome Chelsea, both at 2pm, before Liverpool and Brentford finish the short GW off at 4.30pm. The games in full… Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which enc...[Read More]
The Importance of Home Advantage in Football
Home advantage is a cornerstone of football that significantly influences match outcomes and team performance. This phenomenon, where teams often fare better at their own ground, stems from a combination of multiplier factors. Today, we are going to take a look at some of these factors, exploring what makes home advantage is so prevalent in even the highest level of football. How Does Home Advantage Affect The Game In this section, we are going to take a look at how the stadium in which a game of football is being played can affect the players and overall team performance. Historically The concept of home advantage in football has been around since the earliest recordings of the sport and, to this day, still plays a major part in the results of football. The first-ever World Cup, for examp...[Read More]
FF247 Site Team News GW2
FF247 Site Team News GW2 Can we get a do-over? Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW2 Well, the season starts here… or next week… or whenever we get above the average score! We didn’t get off to the best start in gameweek 1 as we scored 9 points below the average score getting 48 points. It could have been worse atleast we did have some players who returned just not more than the ones we didn’t own. No Saka, Havertz or Salah in our team so that was a bit of a spanking alright. The brilliance of the Premier League referee was on full show to chalk out a wonder goal by Eze who also had an assist ruled out for offside (correctly). Gordon and our captain, Isak, were both screwed over by the theatrics of Brereton Diaz. The man doesn’t know if he’s English or Chilean ...[Read More]
Why Fantasy Football Betting Gained Massive Popularity Online
Why Fantasy Football Betting Has Become Popular Online With the increase in the habit of online gambling, fantasy football betting has become a unique phenomenon. As the game’s popularity is slowly taking over across the world, more and more people are learning to enjoy the thrill of managing their own virtual teams of football players, and a bet on the success of their teams raises the excitement level another notch. This innovation-developed fantasy football combines the attributes of strategic thinking and sports knowledge, which appeals most to the fans of the game. To better understand the subject, the paper will look at some key aspects that influence flexibility in online betting, the notion of competition, and the possibility of enabling fans to test their knowledge. What i...[Read More]
FPL Tips GW2
FPL Tips GW2 Welcome to FPL Tips GW2 Rather than come at you with a whole list of players that you should suddenly pick up, after just the sample size of one GW, we have decided to offer up some quick-fire observations from the past weekend. More food for thought than anything else, really. More to discourage knee-jerk reactions than anything else, truth be told. We will then take a look at the FPL Team of the Week, in a similarly contemplative light. Talking of ‘knee-jerk’ we shall then look at the transfers in and out so far this week. WE shall then touch on Captain options ahead of GW2. GW1 Musings In Defence… Six of the ten games in GW1 produced a clean-sheet. Which is actually relatively high. Or it feels like it is anyway, sans any stats to actually back that up. So...[Read More]
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW2
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW2 Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW2. We are back and had some nice results in GW1. No massive shocks. Liverpool won easily, Haaland did what he usually does and scored to help City win over Chelsea. Spurs ended the gameweek by being properly roasted by the veteran Jamie Vardy who subtlety reminded them they have won nothing! We had a great turn out of 52 entries in GW1 and a wide spread of results ranging from 1 pt to the winning 15 pts. That is fantastic to see and it’s not too late to join now for the overall table! Nobody correctly guessed that new boy Joshua Zirkzee would be the FGS in GW1 but one sole man deserves a shout out, Swirly, was only one minute away from the correct time but did not get the name right. Now onto the...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW1
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW1 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW1 Aaaaaaaannnnnnnddddd, here we go again. The 1st of 38…. This one spans four days, with Man Utd and Fulham getting us under way at 8pm on Friday. Saturday does the heavy lifting with six games. Ipswich welcome Liverpool in the early one at 12.30pm There are then four at 3pm with Wolves going to Arsenal, Everton hosting Brighton, Saints up to Newcastle and Forest v Bournemouth. West Ham and Villa go at 5.30pm to round off Saturday. Just the two on Sunday with Palace at Brentford at 2pm and then Chelsea v Man City hopefully recreating one of the games of last season at 4.30pm. Leicester and Spurs then see us out at 8pm on Monday. The games in full… Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points,...[Read More]
FF247 Site Team News GW1
FF247 Site Team News GW1 Our 2023/24 Overall Rank and Recent History This time last year I was writing about how our 2022/23 season did not go to plan and how we finished just inside the 300k mark – we weren’t happy about it and boy, did we improve! We not only got back to a 5 digit rank but we had our best ever season and rank by finishing a fantastic 4,238. That is our 3rd time with a four digit finish so hopefully we can emulate that this season and go for our first three digit finish! We won’t get greedy and ask for top spot just yet! Initial set up Let’s tell you a bit about how we went about selecting our team. We started off simple – by owning all the players we wanted and not even looking at prices. The team was stacked! Palmer, Salah, Saka, Haaland, W...[Read More]
