Fantasy Football The FF247 Community Team – We go again
It was around this time twelve months ago that another team joined the 3 million-strong throng of Fantasy Football Teams vying for the crown of overall world champion. Except in this case it would be “champions” as this team was a little different. You were in it. And you. You, too. I was as well. The FF247 Community Team (founded 2015) was born, and indeed borne out of a curiosity of a few regulars who wondered if we could have a fantasy team representing all you good good people. Let’s embrace what we did last year, with an overall respectable final rank of 100,193 and see if we can improve on that the second time around.
For those new to this concept, your management team of myself, elleffcee and NZ Alex will guide you via comments on our dedicated article which sits on the tab at the top of the FF247 homepage. These comments will advise you when we are looking for your interaction, namely to let us know how you think we should manage the Community Team. Once our original squad has been selected (more of that soon), we need you to advise us how many transfers we should make, who should be transferred out, in and how we should line up for the forthcoming gameweek and also who will wear our captain’s armband for double points.
All our voting is based on a first past the post system – most votes wins. Simple.
The initial squad selection last season was a little laborious so we have decided to streamline this for this season. We will soon open voting where we will ask you to vote for your desired players by each position (hopefully getting a nice mixture of top-end and budget players . . . . or not?) and then the management team will construct the squad based upon your most popular two or three players per position and then by budget as we work our way through the positions.
The management team have our own individual teams so we are not one bit interested in manipulating the Community Team to turn it in to some second team of ours. You will get what you vote for.
We received some positive feedback on this venture last year so we feel we owe it to you all to have another go and we just hope you support us once more.
To the 2016/17 season then. Shall we?
The Gallant Pioneer
Yeh i should have realised and used that one instead
Point taken though mate. Logged and filed. We will look to improve upon that. I’m sure it’s usually posted in advance though. I will check. I’m not usually on here on a Saturday morning though so I’m not 100% sure either way.
Its my own fault Im not as advanced as you lot. I ended up using the community team for first 3 quaters of last season and did very well in my league and was counting on using the community team advice again this season. I tried making the two transfers that were done by looking at the vote results but was to late. Its all good.
Oh fffs, I waited for the team too long. One week lost. Thanks guys.
One week lost? Please expand.
Astor, Loz,
I think you may be missing the point of the Community Team – it is run so that the members of this community can have joint ownership of a FPL team. All the decisions and selections are made by vote, by the community.
It is not a team to copy or replicate as it is a team made up of a diverse group of fantasy football fans.
If you want to copy a team rather than make your own choices then follow the FF247 site team, which is run by
5 of us who run the site and each week an article is produced to explain the rationale behind the selection.
Yeah I understand, I will use your site team in the future. I will play my wildcard next time. Just frustrating to miss the deadline. Hope dumb luck will produce a lot of points.
That’s not the Community Teams fault in all fairness. It’s not it’s function either.
Just checked and it’s a groundless appeal really. The last 2 weeks teams have been posted plenty in advance. Didn’t find any ‘thanks’ messages on either. Checked back over last seasons and it’s the same thing.
I find this extremely disappointing. Seems as though you are treating your followers with disdain.
Who is? And on what point?
How????
The community is extremely important to us and i’m 100% convinced that those who contribute regularly on the chat would endorse that.
Where is the disdain?!
Damn dude, stop crying. If anything GeePee and CO. have been trying to pull us in since last year. If anything, not enough users have participated before. Especially GEEPEE has really been working his ass off for this.
I see this is your first reply on this topic, and it’s a negative one. Leaves one to think.
On that note, the turkey has been laying on his ass too much while perving on innocent bystanders.
Not sure what this relates to, but I think this place is way more friendly / supportive than pretty much any other board I’ve seen. Seriously, waaaaay more.
I mean, I’m not endorsing all of cookies advice…
Be worried if you did