FF247 Site Team News GW17-20 Christmas Special

Ho ho hell yeah, points!!

Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW17

The next few weeks feel like a real chance for us to finally kick-start our season — a festive resurrection, if you will. We’re now lined up to play three chips across the next three gameweeks, and with a sprinkling of Christmas luck, we could head into the holidays looking far more like our former selves. Or at least less like a team that’s been on the naughty list since August.

This week, Lady Luck came dressed as Santa and actually delivered, but let’s face it, now more than ever, this game is all about luck. Planning, watching matches, researching stats? Largely pointless. Dave from accounts is top of the league, has declared himself an FPL savant, and delivers a weekly carol dedicated to FPL Harry and Let’s Talk FPL. Throw in his Hub subscription and, naturally, he owns all the same players as you — just a gameweek earlier. Festive miracles everywhere.

Anyway, back to us. We unwrapped a few points, and the transfers mostly paid off. While Raya and Anderson delivered coal, Ekitike played the role of Christmas miracle with a tasty 13-pointer. Foden kept the goodwill flowing with 11pts, and while we may have slightly fluffed the captaincy — consider it a stocking filler gone wrong — the damage was minimal at just 2pts lost. Four of our eleven blanked, but the other seven worked overtime to drag us safely down the chimney.

By full-time, we’d racked up 82pts — a generous 22pts over the average. A festive green arrow followed, hoisting us up from 3,684,352 to 2,948,834. Not quite a Christmas number one, but definite progress as we edge toward the top half of the advent calendar.

Our Gameweek 16 Result

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We have £01m in the bank and 1 free transfer to use ahead of GW17. Let’s go see what was decided….

Our GW17 Transfer(s)

We’ve now pressed the Free Hit button, locking in our festive chip strategy. Next week brings the Wildcard, followed by a slightly unhinged Bench Boost in peak rotation season. Sensible? No. Seasonal chaos? Absolutely.

The XI largely picks itself. There’s a triple-up on Bournemouth for their plum fixture against Burnley, while City at home to West Ham feels like an early Christmas present. Form players Wilson and Foden make the cut, and we’re asking Arsenal for a clean sheet — which feels about as safe as leaving mince pies unattended around Big Sam.

The only mild surprise is our decision to keep faith with Ekitike. But after delivering 13pts last week, he’s earned another go. Add in a Spurs side arriving fresh off a 3–0 stuffing, and suddenly the decision feels very much in the spirit of goodwill.
Haaland wears the armband. He’ll be Triple Captained by plenty this week, so going against him feels like asking for socks when everyone else is opening PlayStations. We’ll take the sensible gift and move on.

To confirm then we have played our Free Hit

Captain – Haaland

Our GW17 team in full…

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For the remainder of the Christmas period we shall update the FF247 team and post our moves in the comments to this one.

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