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
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE FOR GAME-WEEK 26 *
Morning FPL managers . . . can you spare a second?
A reminder that our GW26 voting is open.
We have simplified our voting processes by asking you guys to vote only for transfers/chips etc. and to allow this vote to remain open for longer, your management team will select the starting eleven each Friday/Saturday for the foreseeable future. We will do our best for you.
Game-week 26 then! We have two free transfers, no cash in the bank and both Cech and Ibrahimovic on blank weeks. Let’s see what you guys think …
Please vote here after having inspected our squad (above):
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8LR38XD
Thank you for your support. Let’s get as many votes as we can please.
GP/ NZ/ ELLE
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
The squad:
Cookie
Morning and thanks GP….
This is tough given the City potential DGW as ideally we’d want to keep Ibra for Bournemouth but am struggling to see where we raise the cash to turn Luk into Kun for a week……Cech to Jaku raises 1.3 but that’s not enough even if we then sell Alli for Sterling next week…..any thoughts?
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE FOR GAME-WEEK 26 *
Any late night voters out there?
A reminder that our GW26 voting is open.
We have simplified our voting processes by asking you guys to vote only for transfers/chips etc. and to allow this vote to remain open for longer, your management team will select the starting eleven each Friday/Saturday for the foreseeable future. We will do our best for you.
Game-week 26 then! We have two free transfers, no cash in the bank and both Cech and Ibrahimovic on blank weeks. Let’s see what you guys think …
Please vote here after having inspected our squad (above):
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8LR38XD
Thank you for your support. Let’s get as many votes as we can please.
GP/ NZ/ ELLE
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM GW26 *
Thank you for your transfer votes.
You voted to use two transfers (both free) to remove Petr Cech and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to be replaced by Eldin Jakupovic and Diego Costa.
Management has plumped for the attached lineup with Romelu Lukaku as captain.
Good luck to us and to you all.
GP/ NZ/ ELLE
Cookie
Get in!
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
I thought that might have pleased you Cookie :thumbup:
Cookie
What does that leave us in the bank, GP?
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
£2.2M in the bank and no FT.
Cookie
Ok ta – Costa to Kun then!
There you go, you have my vote already
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
I love the forward planning Cookie!
Like the sound of that move myself.
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM GW 26 POINTS *
Hello. Our side scored 60 points this past week thanks to goals from Pedro and Costa at Chelsea, Alli for Spurs and captain Lukaku for Everton. Clean sheets too for Baines and Walker helped settle us 15 points above average and to a ranking of 1,162,656.
Still not good enough but a green arrow at the very least.
Attached is our latest points..
GP/ NZ/ ELLE
Cookie
nice one – a step in the right direction
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE FOR GAME-WEEK 27 *
Our vote is now open for the above and we urge you to vote to let us know who you would sell and buy for our team.
We have one free transfer and £2.2M in the bank.
Vote here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S8V8VM3
Thank you.
GP/ NZ/ ELLE
Cookie
Costa to Kun and TC the mofo
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Very interesting now to see that if that first chip of the season is going to be used. I would expect so.
Thanks Cookie.
Cookie
May as well make the aggressive move, nothing to lose and playing the conservative game isn’t going to help the rank.
Shame we can’t get Siggy or Sterling in there too.
Silvers
Morning all vote in Kun in & TC
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Right you are Silvers thanks.
Popular one that will be I’m sure.
inittowinit
Cheers GP, votes in – Kun in for Costa, Sterling in for Firmino.
Oh and TC on Kun.
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Thank you Init.
I plan to vote for exactly that too.
inittowinit
You haven’t voted?! Well now, make sure you do or we’ll hound you and hound you on twitter until you do. Oh no, hang on a minute…… 😉
KI
I can happily agree to any and all. No one’s mentioned Lukaku and Alli as potential sacrifices; keeping Firmino puts us one up for gw 28? But-I’m just happy with the go-for-it spirit. Fight, team!
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE FOR GAME-WEEK 27 *
A little reminder that our vote is now open for the above and we urge you to vote to let us know who you would sell and buy for our team.
We have one free transfer and £2.2M in the bank.
Vote here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S8V8VM3
Thank you.
GP/ NZ/ ELLE
Raziel
Voting. 😉
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Thank you Raz.
Good man! :ok:
constantine
Done GP..kuna nd Sterling in..
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Constantine,
Thank you for that.