Fantasy Football The FF247 Community Team
Two seasons ago Cookie put out a call for new ideas for the Fantasy Football 247 site. I saw the request before leaving for work and whilst driving I kept thinking how we could have a Community team run by the people who frequent the site. One question kept coming back to me; if you get the median answers of a fantasy football community, would it lead to a successful fantasy football team?
After discussing it with the FF247 team we decided it would be too hard (logistically) to run that season and it went on the back burner. At the start of this season we decided it might be doable but we were still unsure of the logistics. Thankfully the offer of help came from two seasoned FF players, namely The Gallant Pioneer and Elleffcee and between the three of us we managed to iron out the problems.
The original version was using typed votes on the FF247 site and Twitter which was arduous but manageable. GP then took the bull by the horns and moved us onto Strawpoll and then on to the much more streamline Survey Monkey which has made calculations far more manageable thanks to the Scotsman’s initial time setting it up. At this point we’d like to say a massive thank you to GP for the time he has put into reinvigorating the voting for the Community Team. In all honesty he has been the driving force for it this season. To quote Init ‘Many thanks GP, massive effort running this, especially with them two stooges helping you’. I shall be having words with you later young man and not just about your grammar!
On average we get around 55-60 votes for transfers, captains picks and who to bench. Next season we will be tracking this more closely as it will make interesting reading for the end of season article.
So how did the team perform I hear you cry? Well, we finished with a very respectable rank of 100,193. Here are some more detailed stats taken from the excellent FPL Statistico site (http://www.anewpla.net/fpl). If you would like to see more detail of the Community Team our FPL code is: 586387.
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Transfers
Total Transfers : 43
Total Points Hits : 32
Total Auto Subs : 13
Total Auto Subs Points : 15
Total Immediate Points Gained from Transfers : 181
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Formation
3-4-3 (30 times – average 55.5 points)
4-3-3 (3 times – average 61.7 points)
4-4-2 (3 times – average 40.3 points)
5-5-3 (1 times – average 154 points)
2-5-3 (1 times – average 61 points)
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Ranking
Highest Gameweek Score : 154
Lowest Gameweek Score : 31
Median Gameweek Score : 55
Highest Gameweek Rank : 48520
Lowest Gameweek Rank : 3223249
Average Gameweek Rank : 1201913
Median Gameweek Rank : 1105410
Total FPL Users : 3734001
In Top x% of All Users : 2.68%
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Captaincy,
Total Captain Points:,466
Total Captain Points as % of Overall Score:,21.64%
Total Vice-Captain Points:,208
Possible Captain Points if you Always used your Vice-Captain instead:,416
Possible Captain Points if you Always Captained Highest Gameweek Scorer:,1014
Total Actual Captain Points as % of Highest Possible Captain Points:,45.96%
Difference Between your Captain Points and Highest Possible:,-548
Possible Total Points if you Always Captained Highest Scorer out of (C) and (VC):,2214
Difference Between your Total Points and the Above Number:,-61
Possible Total Points if you Always Captained Highest Scorer:,2421
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Captains Used
Agüero (14 times – 162 points – average 11.6 points)
Lukaku (5 times – 64 points – average 12.8 points)
De Bruyne (4 times – 54 points – average 13.5 points)
Vardy (3 times – 24 points – average 8 points)
Kane (3 times – 40 points – average 13.3 points)
Sánchez (2 times – 56 points – average 28 points)
Payet (2 times – 40 points – average 20 points)
Özil (1 times – 4 points – average 4 points)
Pellè (1 times – 4 points – average 4 points)
Hazard (1 times – 4 points – average 4 points)
Giroud (1 times – 10 points – average 10 points)
Costa (1 times – 4 points – average 4 points)
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Points Difference to:
Rank 1 : -305
Rank 101 : -228
Rank 501 : -194
Rank 999 : -177
Rank 4996 : -130
Rank 9999 : -106
Rank 24995 : -70
Rank 49961 : -38
Rank 99979 : 0
Rank 249878 : 62
Rank 499909 : 124
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Benching Stats
Played:
Goals – 107
Assists – 66
Clean Sheets – 53
Own Goals – 2
Red Cards – 0
Yellow Cards – 42
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Benched:
Goals – 2
Assists – 2
Clean Sheets – 8
Own Goals – 0
Red Cards – 1
Yellow Cards – 10
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So what does that all mean?
The interesting facts are the variables that, as a community we control, so captain and benching transfers are harder to summarise:
We picked the highest scorer in our team as captain 45% of the time.
We benched two goals out of a total of 109.
We benched two assists out of a total of 68.
We benched eight clean sheets out of a total of 61.
And how well did we do?
Median Gameweek Score : 55
In Top x% of All Users : 2.68%
So the sun has set on one of the most amazing of Premier League seasons we are likely to see; the Fabulous Foxes wop the league by 10 points, LVG brought a new level of dullness to football and Spurs somehow manage to finish below Arsenal again.
As for the FF247 Community Team well you made it what is is. A massive thank you! We want this to carry on and go from strength to strength. For that to happen we need your help; spread the word and keep voting. We at FF247 are very proud of the fact this is the first community based FPL team and others have since followed our lead. As is said, “imitation is the the sincerest form of flattery.” We nearly finished in the top 100K (our points total was enough it was just the amount of hits that stopped us reaching it). So close to the holy grail of FPL in our first season!
So in answer to the original question; would the median answers from a fantasy football community lead to a successful fantasy football team? Abso-bloody-lutely!
Finally, we’d love some feedback from the community so if you’d like to leave feedback please comment below. To help us answering some/all of the questions would be great:
When you didn’t vote, why was this: Did you forget? Was it not posted enough?
Did you know you can find us in “Hot Comments”?
How is Survey Monkey for you to use?
Do you follow us on Twitter? If so do you retweet for us and if not would you consider it?
Anything else you’d like us to do differently?
Thanks again guys, see you all next season!
Thanks, GP/NZ/ELLE
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In answer to the (yet more) survey questions (they’re bloody obsessed this lot!) –
Did most weeks. Sometimes forgot. Yes posted plenty.
Yes.
Couldn’t be easier.
Unfortunately yes 😉 Yes.
I’ll have a think.
Really, really good article this NZ. Massive amount of time spent on it obviously and it throws up a lot of interesting stats that I think we can all relate to. The capo ones caught my eye especially. Many thanks mate both for this and your work on this innovation throughout the season and the same goes to GP and his scouse chimp.
One observation I would make, and this is simply from a site twitter handle POV is that when we retweet that people get confused and think it’s our site team one which diminishes the doing of the article and the site team. That’s mainly because the handles are almost indistinguishable unless you’re paying close attention, despite your fine fancy logo. Probably just due to people not knowing the actual difference. Not sure how we get round that though. Probably just need to make a bigger fuss of the difference at the front end of the season again. Or we make your logo yellow or something!
Yeah Init make your logo yellow.
Sorted.
GP, I was just about to suggest the same! mwhahahaha
Thanks init. Now about the grammar………
Kiwi, leave his Nan out of this
The grammar was fine. I reckon it may be a certain broad Yorkshire accent that screws it up?!
Excuses, excuses. Still at least GP had a couple of stooges to help, Cookie said you are more of a hindrance………. Ooohhhhh was I meant to keep that to myself? My bad 😉 Only joking, your an integral cog in the FF247 wheel and we all love you!
Morning all this is a big blow for France he would have b one of the best defenders at the Tournament
France defender Raphael Varane has been ruled out of Euro 2016 with a thigh injury.
The 23-year-old suffered the injury in training with Real Madrid and will be replaced in the squad by Sevilla’s Adil Rami.
The French Football Federation (FFF) said in a statement that scans had confirmed the initial diagnosis of Real Madrid team doctors, who estimated the player would be out of action for up to three weeks.
Morning Silvers,
My guru tells me that Mathieu is the likely starter alongside Kos – Mathieu is 4.5mln in the game.
Morning Cookie I have Kos at the moment but that would be interesting swapping him to Mathieu I might do this to improve somewhere else cheers.
Just keep an eye on the friendlies Silvers – Deschamps may have other ideas of course!!
The Fanager prize pot for the free game has been revealed.
Register here please –>
http://bit.ly/FF247-Euro2016
Don’t worry I’ll split the £3,000 with you guys.
What a pot that is!
Any idea on when the game will start up?
I have asked them on twitter for you Matt.
Cheers init
Arsenal confirm the signing of Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka for £35mln.
Where does he fit in alongside Alexis & Ozil? I’ve never seen (or heard of) him.
Wenger splashing the cash early……
I can’t say i know much about him Cookie, be interested to hear from someone who does.
Coiokie,
6 goals in 108 games for Moenchengladbach makes me think he is in one of the two pivot roles in midfield behind the more attacking players especially with Rosicky, Arteta and perhaps Flamini moving on.
Morning GP,
I see 26 goals in 102 appearances for Borussia Gotherinthesach and 12 goals in 40 matches for the Swissies…….
I just saw this from Arsenal and trusted it.
Perhaps with a temper??
If he gets sent off in the Euro’s it’ll more than likely be in the Albania game where he looks likely to be playing against his brother, that’s if he’s anything like me and my kid when we play together.
He’s a box to box midfielder. He’ll probably slot into one of the pivot roles alongside a proper holding player, presumably Coquelin.
The best stat I saw was that he created 78 chances but only got 3 assists. Should fit in perfectly with Giroud then
Ok cool thanks all – could be interesting to see where Coquelin, Elneny, Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla, Alexis and Ozil plus Xhaka all fit in then…..
GP – I think your stat is correct – Wikipedia seems to have added the 2 to the 6 !!
Granit Xhaka (Albanian pronunciation: [??a?nit ?d?aka]; born 27 September 1992) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English club Arsenal. He has been a full international for Switzerland since 2011, and has gained more than 30 caps and was included in their squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Swiss national manager Ottmar Hitzfeld once dubbed him the “young Schweinsteiger”.[3][4]
How quick was that
Morning all could there be anything more certain than this
Liverpool forward Sturridge has become a doubt for the fixture – England’s final game before the May 31 deadline for 23-man squads to be submitted to Uefa – after missing training at Manchester City’s CFA Campus on Wednesday afternoon due to concerns over a calf injury which was required a scan 24 hours earlier.
Never in doubt Silvers. Just need to get rid of Henderson as well now. Morning by the way!