Fantasy Football 247 League Round Ups May
Welcome everyone to the final round up of the 2014/15 season. It was a great ride for many, in particular the ones that we have consistently seen showing up in this monthly article. There was some ups and downs along the way in this very weird season and for those of you who had a rough season, you can I least feel good knowing that the scores reset and we start anew. Now let us have a look to see who gets a mention this time.
FF247 Overall League. 
Top of the shop and gold medal winner is Sakari Uutela with a grand total of 2365pts for his team ‘Oulunkylan’, well done. Our very own Alberto Mendonca aka ‘Albertini’ took silver with 2354pts with his team ‘Celtinha’. Only 1pt behind Alberto was David Ross in 3rd on 2353pts with his team ‘Rossaldhino’. The next 2 places are taken up by Nathan Cook in 4th and Daniel Hennessey in 5th with their teams ‘Crookys Gunners’ on 2343pts and ‘Boyz ll Mendonca’ a further pt behind on 2342pts. These top 5 players also did well in the whole competition with their overall places being 72nd, 113th, 122nd, 187th and 191st respectively. Well done to all 5, some brilliant scoring over the season.
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FF247 Manager Of The Month.
In 1st place for the month of May is rishabh thakur with his team ‘FULL POWER fc’ who amassed a monthly total of 301pts. 2nd place was tied this month with 290pts being achieved by Hans Hayrynen and Mike Smith with their respective teams ‘FC Monsas’ and ‘MilneSturrockDodds’. 286pts was obtained by team ‘Buzzers’ to put Phil Clayton in 4th. Team ‘Why Always Red ?’ Scored 296pts but with a total hit of -12pts put them on 284pts in the end and gave FPL Player a final position of 5th.
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FF247 Doubles League.
We have new champions this season, so stand up NZ Alex & Peaky Dave, you are the new ‘Hinge + Bracket’ of the site as you managed to amass a total of 2261pts to clinch 1st spot. Potty and Morbid put in a late surge, but came up short of the champions in 2nd spot with their team ‘Potty Morbid’ on a pts total of 2228. The weird and unseen couple Mr + Mrs Facepalm put their team ‘No Hope Bob Hope’ into 3rd place with 2211pts. Team ‘Aditupem’, last seasons champions, came nowhere near last years giddy heights, but managed 2182 to take 4th spot for Elleffcee and Init. 5th was taken up by Silvers & PvR with their team ‘The two Uniteds’ with a total of 2159pts. I would just like to add that the top 3 teams managed places of 2363, 5186 + 7461 overall, which I think you will agree is superb rankings for doubles teams.
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Well that’s it for this season folks, I would like to congratulate all those peeps that managed to get a mention throughout the season. I would personally like to thank the people who run the site, you know who they are, the authors who produce articles week in week out and especially you the congregation that post all season, THANKS.
Just to add, I did post that there will be no monthly reviews next season, as we feel that a lot of the people mentioned in this article are not site posters and we sort of don’t know who they are. But I will be running a league and cup, a sort of League Cup, not to be confused with Bench’s FA Cup, for site posters only, more of this will announced nearer the seasons start.
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football 247 League Round Ups for May. This article was written by Ellefcee. Fortunately he doesn’t have a Twitter account so you don’t have to bother following him.
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Site Updates and Feedback!
As ever over the Summer break we have a list of jobs to do that will hopefully improve the site and the user experience. Paramount is making the site ‘mobile friendly’. Although not of absolute importance from a user point of view we need to do this for practical reasons as Google are penalising those that don’t and we need to maintain our position on the 1st page of their search rankings for key words.
That aside we have a few minor updates to run with things like new ’emots’ but the rest is down to you really! If you would like any new features or have ideas as to how we should improve the site then we are all ears. Please feel free to post and discuss any suggestions below and as ever we shall listen and if it’s practical we shall implement. No promises of course but it’s good to talk!
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UEFA U21’s Fantasy Football
We shall be running a site competition for the upcoming U21’s Championship and we shall post details in the next few days, as and when it is open for entry. They are updating the site as we speak and it begins for real on the 17th June at 5.45pm. Stay posted for updates and no doubt the odd article to help you along the way!
Stay posted!
The Winner Speaks!
We all wondered who the mystery man at the top was… well, he’s been in touch! We were pleasantly surprised to find an e-mail in our inbox over the weekend from Sakari himself and so we had a chat and asked him a bit about himself and how his season had panned out and his FPL strategies. A mini interview if you like and he provided the following as a small bio and message…
“Hi All,
Somebody asked in your comments, who is the ‘Mystery Man’, who has won overa…
So I will reveal the secret. I am the winner of the Fantasy Football 247 league! Here is some extra information about me.
At the beginning of the season I just tried to find some competitive leagues where I could join. I also looked for useful FPL sites and that was the main reason why I joined the Fantasy Football 247 league. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to be a regular poster although I spend way too much time on this game!
I´m old “fox”, born in the sixties. I`m from Finland, Helsinki and this was my fourth season of FPL. My FPL history is quite good (4733, 3040, 12238 and now 72). 2013 – 2014 I refused to buy Yaya!
I started to play FPL because one friend of mine asked me. He wanted to create “Tampere – Lahti open” league, where participants were my three best friends and their kids. So in the beginning FPL was also a “family thing” for us. But just after few rounds I was addicted.
My favorite team has always been Chelsea. The great love begun in spring 1970, when I watched the FA cup final on TV and for some reason, which I don’t even remember, I chose Chelsea and not Leeds. Lucky me!
It would be also nice to tell you about my game strategies, but because one thing is the most important for me I put it simple: watch enough games. I watch weekly at least 3 – 4 games and make many of my transfer decisions based on what I see.
Of course there are several other strategic things for me, for example –
– I play fixtures for the first few rounds, after that it’s always form over fixtures.
– I’ll make sure that my team value is proper/decent (I jump few early bandwagons and could take also few hits).
– My captains are quite ‘safe’, but I always take some risks to make this game even more fun
and as I said earlier I use plenty (too much) time for planning.
It has always been fun and useful read your site, thanks! IMO it`s important that there are many different kinds of FPL sites and there are enthusiastic people like you to make them happen.
And good luck to you all for the next season.”
So there you go. Many thanks to Sakari (Uutela) for getting in touch, massive congratulations for actually winning it and also having the final say on this seasons league article!
Sweet, 4th in the monthly table. Thought I had a good end to the season!
Roll on next season.
Looking forward for those new competitions elle, count me in!
No probs Run DMC, i’ll probably be getting peeps to e-mail me and i’ll reply with the league code, only people on the site will see the posts, so no bodies we don’t know. Get yourself a partner mate and swing into the doubles league aswell, thats a laugh also.
cant wait for august to come where we all will be busy with our new teams and will have something to “utilize” our time for.. :beer:
Morning all!
huge thanks to everyone involved with the site,head and shoulders above anything else and still a comparatively fledgling site,well done folks!!! The standard (and reliability!) of the articles is superb and may it continue! Congrats also to Albertini, that’s a rank we can all dream about for next season well played!!! 
Prob won’t play anyone Footy leagues until EPL but looking forward to kicking some butt in the ‘Ashes’ one! 😉
Dave
Hey Peaky, hope all is well? You’ve reminded me – we still have manager profiles in the vault don’t we! Guess I’d best go check those out…
Cheers Peaky, I’m sure next season we’ll have a few managers around that rank or doing even better!
I imagine i’ll be doing at least that well.
Afternoon Everybody. Haven’t been on for the last few days and probably won’t till FPL season starts back up again but I would just like to say thanks to everybody for making this site great and to the fellas in charge of the articles, a special thanks to you. One last thing, I like the idea of having more comps and having a regulars league.
Cheers Everyone!!
Matt
Thanks Matt, sounds like Elle is cooking something up in that respect. Difficult balancing act not to ostracise people as such but this one will be for the community posters I guess and it’ll be good for those that chat regularly on here to be able to compete against each other directly.
Can’t interest you in a little dabble at the U21’s then in the meantime?!
Ye will be nice to know the lads your playing.
I could be convinced.
what do you mean???
Last paragraph on the article above Matt.
Ah I see it now must have skipped it somehow. I think I’d get into that. Do you have any ideas on when more details will come out??
Article in production as we speak Matt and will be up later this week. Tourney itself begins on the 17th.
Thanks boys and girls of FF247, your best season yet. I have loved being a part of this community and its down to the organisation and time you put in combined with the friendly helpful and sometimes weird people who make the community what it is!
Bring on next season.
Ps , I’ve loved the FF247 team you’ve added this year. How about a site run team on top of this that is run by vote? No idea how it could work and it may just have to go in the too hard basket but it would be cool to do.
Hi Alex, that was discussed and also deemed too difficult to manage. It was a last minute thought though so if it is indeed planned properly I’m sure it’s doable. Would mean someone running it though as we haven’t got the time in all honesty. Polls were suggested but again that’d have to be driven by someone. Sounds like you’ve talked yourself into being ‘Community Team Manager’ to me. Congrats
Alex
Seconded.
When can you start?
Funnily enough GP, you were a manager I was thinking of to help run the thing so if your not interested I’d keep your head down now 😉
Assistant manager appointed 😉
Doing well here.
Elle is usually a good tea-lady if you need one
I ain’t making tea for NZ and Gee Pee aswell as you Init. :shake:
You are if they want you to 😉
Come on Elle, milk no sugar. I notice GP has actually disappeared now!
Nope. It’ll be cold anyway by the time i got to New Zealand.
Andy, I like that idea. I think this is the most likely way for it to work. Nice work pal. Init?
Poor attitude Elle 😉
Haha Thanks Init your too kind! Will give it some thought but in all honesty I don’t have the time and know-how. I would be happy to do it in support with someone. How would you see it working?
No idea mate, you’re the manager you tell me :hippo:
Thirded. :thumbup:
Fourtheth ethetheth etheth. Scorchio!!!!
How many people run the site team, 5 ?
Four and a half
Well could we get another four and a half and have a site ‘B’ team ?
Nope. Other team if there is to be one will be a consensus run community one. Just not sure how you come to the final decision. Polls are an option and I’ll gladly run them but I’ll wait to hear from Alex and GP 😉
It’ll be a toughie mate. Of all the possible transfers in a gameweek, as you say, how do you get a final decision ?
I do like the idea but not going to run it on my tod, i’d have a divorce on my hands! If we can figure a way it could work (I’m not really sure how a vote would work, maybe the team behind the scenes comes up with the ideas that week and then the final 2/3/4 decisions go to vote?)
This was exactly why the idea was canned as quickly as it was conceived to be fair! That said, yes if you and GP and Elle and whoever can whittle it down early enough then a vote can be posted. Problem then is of course last minute changes etc as we all experience over the course. Guess a disclaimer saying you reserve final call between you could work?
I can’t see voting working, dictatorship’s are much better, you could just let one manager take over the team on a GW basis and leave them in sole control of the team, they’d have to write a little piece on the transfer that they’ve made for that week, of course the captain poll would be used as the de facto (c) choice. We could just use the Auto select to select our original team (We’d hammer it a couple of times to make sure Aguero is in the starting eleven) and take it from there.
Andy, I like that idea. I think this is the most likely way for it to work. Nice work pal. Init?
Alex. What? Nowt to do with me
So we have your blessing for anything we like then Init 😉
I’ll pick the 1st gameweek squad, then that’ll be me done for the rest of the season, as long as there is another 37 involved.
Only way I could suggest,is start gw1 with the same team as the site team,have 2 polls each Monday to Wednesday,1- who to transfer out,2-how many transfers.And then run another poll or 2 depending on results of who to transfer in from Thursday to Friday.e.g def under 5.2 cost.Late changes are impossible to factor in to a community team.but hey we have all summer to find a way.
That may work 1 of 7, it’s that or Andy’s idea. Just not sure which is best lol
If you had 5 volunteers for a transfer committee to meet up on Wednesday to finalise 12-15 players for each poll.top 10 from total score in the price brackets involved and maybe each committee member has a wildcard pick he can run in the poll.to account for players returning from injury,regaining their place etc.The committee could meet again on Friday to decide if a snap poll for about 2 hours is needed for any late changes.and run a poll similar to the way potty has his competition’s.This is the best way I can think off to give everyone on the site an input to a community team
Hope the comments help Alex,some guys used to meet on a Friday evening to pick a pact captain for that gameweek a couple of seasons ago.They might be able to give helpful advice.
Cheers for your thoughts 1 of 7, will have a chat to the powers that be in FF247 towers (although Inits door has an ‘out for lunch’ sign up that seems to have been there for a few days!) and see what they all think.