Fantasy Football Live Match Chat and FF247 Site Team Gameweek 38+
Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek and FF247 Site Team 38+.
What could possibly go wrong………………………………?
GW38+ Deadline; Sunday 26th July 3pm GMT
We’ve finally come to the end of what was ultimately a bizarre yet memorable season. Possibly for all the wrong reasons but it is what it is. Or was what it was, hopefully.
We can’t let it go without handing out more than a few ‘thanks’ though. We feel like we do this every season, and we do, but that doesn’t mean any of it is less heartfelt. Let’s go view everybody’s end of year school (FF247) report…
The Writing Team
Outstanding. We have a team of about 15 writers all told, give or take. And each and every one is a pleasure to work with. Whenever you have ’employees’ that is probably box 1 ticked. Box 2 is whether they are actually up to the job. And our writers certainly are. Their body of work speaks for itself. It is consistently brilliant, and we can’t thank them all enough for it.
IT
Much maligned and forever blamed. For everything. But our IT team is to ‘blame’ for us even having a website in the first place, maintaining it, improving it (whenever Init shouts), and generally keeping us online. It’s a thankless task which goes unnoticed most of the time. And for that we thank them. We think…
Social Media
Masks off, Swirly posts our articles and a few other choice bits on Twitter, anything you see on there that is somewhat approaching controversial will be from Mito. Init oversees the lot filling in the gaps and dealing with the fallout from Mito’s posts!
Matt ‘runs’ Facebook, although we think he may have forgotten that he does…
Site Members
By this we mean those who comment regularly. The main reason we do the work we do is you guys. We see other fantsay football sites who have little or no interaction in their comments and we wonder why they continue or where their motivation comes from as a result. You are our motivation. And we thank you all. Each and every comment keeps our pecker up and is appreciated.
Readers
To those who simply read we say thank you too. We know you are out there as we see the stats and they are staggeringly good so we know you read even if you don’t interact with us. And that’s fine too. Thank you.
As for GW38+ itself all the games begin at 4pm on Sunday and we shall not bother you with any needless waffle about them, they are as follows:
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 encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
What Next?
Plenty, as it happens, so don’t go away for too long.
We intend to pick up where the Champions League left off and that one begins again on August 7th so look out for our preview prior to that with a reminder about where we left it in terms of the Regs League, what the craic is going forward with transfers and the new look layout for it in terms of the fixture schedule.
GP has made a gallant attempt to get us to play Fantasy Football Scotland so if you wish to do that check out his post here . We are lead to believe there will also be articles on it. Can’t wait.
Beyond that the plan for the 2020/21 season seems to be to resume on the 12th September so no doubt we shall gallop from the CL straight into our usual pre-season articles with info on the newly promoted teams and the like.
For now though enjoy GW38, and we shall see you soon!
FF247 Site Team GW38+
Our GW37+ Result…
Saturday began with an inevitable clean sheet for Pope. Sunday brought us an unexpected one from Aurier. That was after Ings had both delighted and disappointed in equal measure.
We then had to wait until Tuesday for our next involvement. Which was predominantly the City lot and new signing Auba. And what a bunch of flops the lot were! Granted, Foden got us a welcome goal but Dilva was a no show and Auba may as well have been too.
Wednesday needed to be better or we would be staring down the barrel of a huge red gun arrow. TAA did his best for us, Greenwood brought a goal and Salah an assist but Wan-B not starting was a blow and our Captain Bruno just looked spent. Pulisic was probably our surprise highlight / bonus given that he he didn’t even start!
All in all we landed on 65 points which despite being 12 above the average still saw us take home a small red’un, stumbling down 2k to 41,931st.
GW38+ TRANSFER
We have (n’t yet) SOLD Auba and (have not yet) BOUGHT Kane
Confused?
Basically this is a proposal. In a bold move we have decided to wait until the last minute for once, in the hope of some early Man City team news. In the absence of any we shall proceed with the Kane move.
The alternatives are Salah to Sterling or KDB to Sterling. Or anyone else to Sterling… Essentially we are waiting on Mr St. Tropez.
So what could possibly go wrong… well, we have left our IT department (Floydeth) in charge of executing this transfer as he was the only one who put his hand up as being ‘definitely available’ for the task. Gulp.
GW38+ CAPTAIN
Our Captain for GW38+ wil be DAVID SILVA
Our Vice-Captain will (may) be HARRY KANE
Our intention is to captain David Silva and that probably won’t alter unless we hear he is unexpectantly benched, which he almost certainly won’t be.
Our vice is up for grabs but Kane will get it, if he gets to grace our team. Only time (or IT) wil tell…
Good luck to absolutely everyone for Gameweek 38+ from all at FF247!
Our team in full, in theory…
We shall post on site tomorrow to confirm either way.
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek and FF247 Site Team 38+
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Fantasy Football 247 League Codes:
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League Code: ikkny1
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To enter this one you need to be an active and recognised site member and you need to e-mail us for the league code – elleffcee@gmail.com
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Disappointed to not finish in top 10 of regulars league as I consider that a good benchmark due to brilliant players on the site !
:hippo:
Last 4 weeks have been red arrows for me after a good start after lockdown finished on 34k could have been better but still satisfied.
Thank you all the writers and managers of the site for brilliant articles and Tips. See you next season
You were in the Regs cup final, got to check, but you win. Your opponent posted once last August and nothing since, no prizes for no posting i’m afraid, its the rules. These are community leagues not for someone to post once then nowt for 11 months.
Damn I didn’t know I was in finals?
Did I win anything? :smoke:
Also any screenshot or anything, you got me excited I won something especially for the site league
Snooks, like a lot of site users they don’t go over to the Regulars Leagues/cup tab. You did get beat but the other teams owner has not posted all season.
Thanks again for all your hard work this season team FF247!
Enjoy the short break Seren, hope you had a good season! :good:
Good season as in enjoyable – Yes
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Good season as in overall rank – No (my 13year old son thrashed me this year
I see you won the regulars league – well done!
Haha fair enough!! Well, it’s a game so it is meant to be fun!!
Oh and thank you!! It’s a tough one to win with so many great players here, so I’m chuffed to bits!!
680 points since lockdown with a rank rise from 980 odd K to 220k in the end. Got to be happy with that it’s just a shame it did not save me from my worst ever rank. I was hoping to get just under 200k last day but think I was 8 points short or so. Oh well not long now to wait till the new season. A big thanks to anyone that has given advice and to everyone else on the side, it really is a great community
That is a pretty decent climb Smash.
We always want to do that bit better but that’s good progress in anyone’s eyes.
I only ask for top 100k usually And winning my mini so I’m happy Most years. This year outside that and 2nd in my mini league but top had a freakish good season top 20k
It’s all relative isn’t it?
Still green arrows to end are better than red ones.
Thank you all for all your hard work. My OR 64K not as good as I hoped after a poor GW38 – but would have been much worse without the input from 247.
We shall all be together again quite soon!!
A solid rank all the same! Well played Colonial, see you again next season!
Phew glad that’s over.
So was leading my ml by miles a few weeks ago
My rival chased me down to 37 points going into last games.
I thought I’m leading by 37 and I’ve got a FH to play what could go wrong?
Well I tell you it almost did.
The problem was I over thought the FH team
Chopping and changing trying to be smart.
I even dropped KDB & Ings to get Sterling & Dsilva
I was out of it until captain Sterling scored.
He scored 91 -4 (87)
I scored 55
You work that out
I won by 5 point in the end?
To close for comfort.
Lesson learned do not over complicate things :dash:
But in the end who cares, you still won 😉 . Congrats! :good: :drinks:
Nice Grav OD!! :good:
Cheers mate! Took me longer than I dare admit to figure out how that odd feature worked :scratch_one-s_head:
Haha that’s why it’s best to pick one and then forget all about it!! None of this flip flopping like Raz or Elle!!
Over thinking always bites me in the bum! Prime example was changing Antonio to Soucek v NOR :suicide:
Cheers for the top advice this season chaps. A sign that FPL is getting better (or more popular)… I finished a point better than 15/16 but finished rank 115k this season and 10k that season!
Also worth checking out this link: https://fplreview.com/season-review/#points_table
It takes the pre-match bookies odds + post-match xG for your players you picked and compares to actual points. Gives a score for luck… I was robbed of 11 points!
https://fplreview.com/2019/05/analysing-the-data-behind-the-season-review-tool/
Thanks very interesting! Apparently I was robbed of 42pts!
I like their mathematical approach to this data and their test of own assumptions, apparently a talented manager can aim for top 10k but one should expect luck to aid you the final way to the top
quote: “Skill is undoubtedly the biggest component but there can be no doubt a season can be derailed by random events. Based on the data Top 10k is about as high as can be reasonably be targeted if you are very skilled without hoping for things to go your way at least somewhat more than everyone else. Massive success such as coming Top 1k requires both significant skill and luck.“
I think you could possibly strip the luck component – or trim it down a bit – by removing double points for your captain. In other words just making the captain a symbolic pick.
A good – or lucky – captain pick can hide a multitude of sins in one’s team and I guess that with luck one could get away with that for a number of weeks. Removing that bonus would quickly expose teams that were not that well set up.
Agree, there is a site which calculates this but forgot the name unfortunately. Serves for good banter if the ML has won solely on chips and/or cap’n choices 😉
*ML leader
anewpla.net is one site that you can use to check this Kralin.
Coincidentally I’ve learned that I’m absolutely horrendous at choosing the right cappo… :mosking: :slaphead:
Thanks. I think I’ll quietly put this season behind me and start thinking about the next…