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!
Seems like Yaya is staying as well. Not sure what I think about that tbh, but he’s been our most important player since the takeover and has a special place in any City fans heart. If he makes an effort next season, I’ll be ecstatic. Read that Sheikh Mansour convinced Yaya to stay by telling Yaya that he wanted Yaya and Pogba to form a dream partnership.
With Dzeko up top when Kun goes to Madrid. :big-lol:
Banterbury menbers & @FantasyFooty247 community have,raised a amazing £209.98 in our Charity @HelpforHeroes Cup14/15, THANK YOU
Nice one Bench. I’ll boost that next week as it pledged an amount per Bant point I got if you remember? No idea what it was but I’ll check and send it over when I’m home at the weekend.
Thanks innit, hopefully it will help someone life, just that little bit :thumbs:
Bloody hell. Milner to Liverpool confirmed.
What a bloody decent free signing.
He’s a good solid signing.
Very pleased indeed with that signing!
How pleased though? Emre Can pleased? Mario pleased? Lallana pleased?
Milner pleased! 😉
lol….”oh James”
One of the few players who actually had some character in the City squad. Can’t believe we lost him because Pellegrini would rather play overpaid hookers with no regard for the club besides their paycheck. Milner could come off the bench in the 70th min and make more of an effort in 20 min than the rest of the City team combined during the whole match. He shall be missed!
I agree Tekno, he showed more effort than anyone else there last season. Still, sure he’s happy with another huge signing on fee!
Cookie,
He will be well looked after with this new contract I’m sure. But he is one of these guys who is very dependable, usually gives his all and can play to a decent standard at pretty much any position probably the reason he is always normally trusted by England so you can forgive him for earning decent wages.
I wonder how strong the Arsenal interest was in him.
GP I completely agree – rather him out wide than central though – if Liverpool think he is Slippy’s replacement I fear they may be disappointed.
I think City will miss his work rate especially if Yaya sulks again.
GP, Arsenal soon lost interest when he said he would’nt move house.
elle,
That figures then.
Cookie,
I think he plays his best stuff wider as well. With him, Lallana, Henderson and Coutinho they have some good midfield players there. Whether that becomes a good midfield is another thing – I think they need a big player in there still.
Looks like Skrtel has not signed his new contract. It was based around games played to get his full salary, i think he had to play in 80% of our games, 1 injury would knock his full wage on the head. What are these Americans expecting from these stupid contracts ? :shake:
Peter Crouch?
elle,
So when can he leave for free? Next summer?
GP, yip, 12 months left.
If his price tag stops the same at 5.5 I’d be more than a little interested in some Millner action next season.
Andy,
Probably will play more. Not sure how they will price him up because of this potential move and the likliehood that he will see more game time. I’d need to see who else Liverpool sign to see how attractive he might become.
Kovacic of Inter appears to be on the cards. Oh and Rafa is staying tight lipped about a possible Sterling move.
Can’t imagine why Sterling would want to go to Madrid. Can’t see him playing much. Could really damage his career imo. But that’s better than him coming to us!
Sterling won’t play as much where ever he goes, he’ll certainly get a few splinters in his arse sitting on the bench.
He should be more expensive. He wouldn’t have left if he didn’t expect to start most matches and his output has been decent when he’s started, so 6.0 should be his minimum price. Think he’s gonna be used more centrally too (that’s what he wants) so that may or may not hurt his output.
Has a player who’s made a downgrade in club’s price tag ever gone up in EPL? I’m struggling to come up with examples, Jonjo Shelvey is the only example I can think of mind, Pool -> Swansea.
Not sure that was a downgrade in club for Shelvey 😉
Cookie,
I must admit that was my first thought too
Rooney….
Ohhhh, I know Init.
What is a holding midfielder. #Jeopardy
Wait, so Advocaat is staying at Sunderland after all?
Thought he had confirmed he was leaving :cuckoo:
What a dick.
:whatever:
Yeah that one
“Fifa paid the Football Association of Ireland 5m euros (£3.6m) to stop legal action over Thierry Henry’s handball in Ireland’s World Cup play-off defeat by France in 2009, it has been claimed.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33011692
Such sensationalism from the Beeb. Ireland thought they had a legal case. So did FIFA. They settled out of court. Not exactly a bribe in my opinion.
Kinda misleading how it opens with stating that the FAI was paid as if it was a bribe, then ends the article with a quote saying it was an out of court settlement. Still, it is kinda like the FAI are being paid money to stop complaining and not give FIFA trouble. But I guess paying large sums to make someone drop a case against them both legal and quite normal amongst those with money nowadays.
Exactly. They’d be better waiting until there is actually something to report on.
If anything, i’d say it is the Irish FA, not FIFA, that have to answer to the Irish people on this one. I don’t know how that money was used, but if anyone (other than a lawyer) got rich off that payment then that is just plain wrong. – I doubt the Irish public were told by their FA that they settled when they actually had a chance to have their day in court and possibly get the match replayed.
They never had a case!! How can you take a handball decision (or not as it was) to court! Whole thing is ridiculous.
Maradona expected in court next week to answer for his header in 86.
Ok. Obviously FIFA felt that there was a risk of the Irish FA having enough of a case to either go to court, and /or set a dangerous precedent for sporting / footballing decisions to get dragged through the legal system. Point is, i don’t see anything in this that is worth of reporting on.
FIFA paid the Irsih FA compensation for an injustice (I bet they’ve paid a few) rather than face a court case or trial by media where the French FA might have got to a position where the match needed to be replayed. Again, my point is that it’s not really news, and a poor attempt by lame BBC reporters to drag up anything that involves FIFA and the payment of money.
And i agree. – The whole thing is ridiculous!
After all the underhand dealings in this country over the last 30 years the FAI getting 5 million from FIFA is nothing!!
It’s even being reported on in Norwegian newspapers :/
Tekno knows. He is a fan of City, so he is used to watching people throw money at any problem.
Oh yeah? Well I think your behavior is a problem so I’ll throw money at you if you don’t stop!!!!!! Let’s see how much you’d like that!!!!!!
Shame Mummy Mito didn’t share your thoughts Tekno 😉
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