FF247 Site Team News GW17-21 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.
You can follow the progress of the FF247 Site Team here
Thanks for reading FF247 Site Team News GW17-20 Christmas Special. This article was written by Fantasy Football 247
PREDICTED LINE-UPS
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***NEW ARTICLE – FF247 SITE TEAM GW17***
An Ekiteke is not just for Christmas…
AJW
Hahaha – I’ve taken a 2 week Semenyo cruise for Xmas! Then to Cunha (in GW19) to take over from him (Cunha help me get a few green arrows please Santa???).
– Got rid of Anderson + Burn for Semenyo + Mukilele. We’ll see for the rest.
God rest ye merry 247ers!!!
Best of luck evr’yone,
AJW! 😉
Rogueblood
Site team is looking healthy, hope everyone is having a nice run up to xmas.
What would you do with this lot 1.6ITB 5FT want to BB GW18
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oisedada
Sell dewsburyhall for Wilson for a – week punt
bundeena bunnies
I think DH is out for a while
Terminators
I think Mateta would be my worry.
idk about Dewsbury Hall we don’t know how long he’ll be out for yet, he’s great value with a good run of games, for a punt yeah but you may want him back if he’s only out for a couple of GW’s.
Kop Warrior
KDH is out until late January!
hammerfan_lm
FTx5
Itb-2.2m
Do I need to address Szob and Thiago?
I still have wildcard that I need to use but I don’t want to waste the freebies that we have been given.
Any thoughts.
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AJW
Tick-tock, tick-tock! Use it or lose it! You’ve still got 2 GWs to go HF.
In fact you don’t lose your 5 transfers – you just need to skim off 1 per week to keep the 5. So WC next week?
AJW
I mean better to use the WC and keep your transfers intact by trading 1 per week (cos you can’t have 6!)
GL
hammerfan_lm
Yeah but don’t I lose my 5ft if I use my wildcard?
ODT
Looks like he’s right Hammers.
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SAFs_hairdryer
No. They roll over
Please note that when playing either a Wildcard or your Free Hit chip, any saved free transfers are retained for the following Gameweek. If you had 2 saved free transfers, you will still have 2 saved free transfers the Gameweek after playing the chip.
hammerfan_lm
Thanks guys, that’s good to know.
Just not sure if to use it now or next week, as I don’t have much time to think about changes. I like time to look at fixtures etc
Terminators
Thiago has a good run he does need to start scoring goals though like he was earlier in the season, Szabos it on pens, corners and free kicks.
The two Newcastle players are the issue, I am getting rid of Bruno.G just after this GW starts and also Neto to bring in Bruno.F.
If you cannot afford Ekitiké I would keep Szabos.
If on a WC could if you did Bruno.G to Bruno.F and take out Waltermade how much money do you have left for a FWD you can play 3-5-2 as you already have Minteh, a replacement for Waltermade is Bowen if you cannot afford Ekitiké, if on a WC you can also drop one of VDV or Konsa for a playing £3.9 DEF there are a few and just have them last on your bench if you need extra funds.
mahelmy
Good luck guys
just wanted to let you know that in prediction GW17 the FPL FIXTURE TRACKER is for last year
bundeena bunnies
Play Van den berg of Virgil?
AJW
Hey mate – how’s it all going? I was gonna say Virgil, but I’ve seen Brighton’s fixture. I dunno – Virgil in a pinch I reckon.
How are the fish biting mate? It’s prime time for ducking out on your boat and landing a few, isn’t it?
Have been watching the cricket, but haven’t tuned in today – just keeping up with live reports in the newspaper.
Have a good end of year break!
😉 Cheers, AJW
Terminators
Virgil.
bundeena bunnies
I’m thinking the same.
Van den berg on bench is not bad in case Thiago is out