Thank You! – FPL Fantasy Football Premier League
Over the last few days there have been plenty of posts on our message boards from fantasy managers that have enjoyed fantastic seasons. We won’t take all the credit of course (!) but the feeling is that many of those successes are down to having spent time on the site and having absorbed the wealth of knowledge and advice that is available here, be that articles or conversations on the message boards.
The FF247 Team
In fact, this site would be nothing without those two exact things. The first being the immense efforts and contributions from our editorial team. We would therefore like to extend a huge thank you to the team of experienced fantasy managers that have all made time this year to provide invaluable articles for the site. Special thanks go to Bench, Cookie, Eddy, Init, Kop Warrior, Migs, Mito21 and Potty who have all published numerous regular articles during the course of the season. We would also like to thank those who have published some ad-hoc or guest articles which have been none the less valuable, this year – Mutley, James101, elleffcee, B-Bash, Milk and Busquets, Flingy and NZ Alex. We hope we haven’t missed anyone!
In addition to our great team that give up so much of their time to write for the site, a number of other fantasy managers have also kindly given up their time for interviews with us this year. We have interviewed some great fantasy managers, so special thanks to everyone who has taken part.
We need to take a second to make a special thank you to Floydeth as well. He may be the lesser spotted of the team on the boards but the reality is that without him you would not all be reading this post today as he is the IT brains of the operation and does a fantastic job behind the scenes to make it all possible. Thank you Sir Richard!
Thank you to the Twitter team. Well we say team, we mean Mito really! Cookie covers day-times occasionally and Init did it once so we are told! We have gone from zero to over 3000 followers this season and it’s pretty much all down to one man. Mito, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for a hilarious and sometimes informative twitter feed that supports the site brilliantly.
The FF247 Community
We would like to finish off by thanking everyone who comes on to our message boards and makes this place such a special community. FF247 has become a hot bed of activity as fantasy managers from all over the world exchange thoughts, ideas and suggestions 24 hours a day. This is largely due to a great group of amazing regulars, and for that we are exceptionally grateful. Thank you.
What makes it absolutely fantastic is that 99% of the time it is done in such a fun and friendly manner. We shall be perfectly honest now though… It’s that other 1% that really makes us laugh! We should step in sometimes but the reality is we just kick back, break out the popcorn and watch the fun unfold!
What Next?
Whilst the FPL season may be at an end there is no rest for the wicked at FF247. This week alone we hope to bring you Kop’s FPL team of the season which will no doubt spark many a debate, Cookie has a rather lengthy interview for you with some of the site community, Elleffcee will wrap up the FF247 leagues and then we move on to the next big fantasy game…
THE WORLD CUP!
We will kick off next week with a series of articles brought to you by… well, some of you. We will have detailed analysis and expert opinions on each team and each group and hope to run a group a day to provide you with all you need to know ahead of the fantasy World Cup game. We will have an official FF247 league in the FIFA version of the game (assuming they do it, if not then somewhere else!) and we will bring you details of the league codes in due course and we hope to have articles along the way to help you out.
What else?
Well aside from the World Cup we imagine that MLS will start to take some prominence once more and we have a very strong and competitive league in this game already. As we speak Mito21 is leading the way and is sitting pretty in 29th place in the world. Surely we can’t allow him to walk away with this one? Thought not.
If MLS isn’t your thing then maybe cricket is and as such Potty has a T20 comp starting this week which we are sure he will fill you all in on in due course.
We imagine there will be something else that pops up over the course of the summer as well, there always is but from an FPL point of view we will be back and as strong as ever next season. We thank you all for making this site what it is and hope to see you all over the summer in some capacity or other!
Thank you from the FF247 team.
Love this site… Previously follow the old one… This site is great!!
How I improved my ranking in FPL:
2011/12 – 184k (before follow this blog)
2012/13 – 371
2013/14 – 236
3 articles that really important and usefull for me… Fixture, tips and teamtalk..
Target to break top100 in next season…
Thanks a lot for your great info!!
Wow! Fantastic consistent rankings for the last 2 seasons?! What’s your secret?
The only secret is this blog… All articles and tips were valuable… Follow what have been adviced here… Most important, dont make any decision before you did homework.. Im still learning as well.. =}
I also noticed Idin you only took 32 points in hits all season,very restrained mate,brilliant!!! I took 112 points in hits this season,it sounds a lot but is actually less than previous seasons!
Hits is worst thing in FPL for me… take when no option. not for gamble.
Great going that LS7, welcome aboard mate – am looking forward to just copy/pasting your team into mine !! :hippo:
Just update my team link… Im still young in this. Need input from all.. =}
Yeah that works Idin, do I call you Idin?
Yeah…. Woww… You’re 1st in your country… Bravo!!
Yeah Idin, but in fairness it’s one of the smallest countries in the world! Are you on twitter?
There’s only 2 of them playing it in Monaco Idin And the other is Mrs Cookie…
Welcome to site mate. Fantastic rank, well done. I take it FPL is big news in Malaysia then? I assume fantasy football is very popular there also?
Evening gents! Just a fleeting visit,i just wanted to boast I came first in my country!!!! Yay
the Comoros Islands!!! If you’re wondering they’re a sovereign archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel off the eastern coast of Africa, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar!!! Comprendez!?!?!??!?! 😉
Population 707503! 😉
Interesting Peaky. Interesting. I would have described the Comoros Islands more of an archipelago of four islands and several islets located in the western Indian Ocean about ten to twelve degrees south of the Equator.
But that would just be me being picky.
😉
Bins + chellies, Northwest of Mayotte. :big-lol:
They’re easily confused chins,because they are so similar!! lol I just chose a ‘country’ I’d never heard of cos I wanted to be a big fish in a smaller pond!! 😉
How you coping with the cold turkey (sorry innit!) from FF??? I’m loving it!! It’s great to wake up in the morning and not have to check for rivals transfers,price rises,injury reports,etc etc etc and hey-ho ive rembered ive got a wife and 3 kids!!
Pokey, with no FF it might be 4 kids by the end of next season. :big-lol:
Hold on elleffcee didn’t I say I was married???? 😉
You must be Dave, juding by the look on your cats face.
lol I chose that face cos potty was talking about the dietary needs of Koreans the other day!!
Cold turkey (sorry init) hasn’t kicked in yet Dave. I’ve got mls and now my new favourite game – fantasy T20 cricket – to keep me busy!
Plus, theres the WC to look forward to, which (in case i haven’t mentioned it several times already) i’ll be able to watch every single game as i coincides nicely with the wife, me and the two kids emmigrating to the US. Happy days!
If cold turkey (sorry init) hits you hard dave, just think of the summer as just one long scouting mission for next seasons openning gameweek!
That cat looks like it’s just heard it’s on the menu!
Lucky u chins I hope the move works out well for you mate!!!! Speaking of scouting for next season,i was bored at work today and did stratagem ‘A’ for next season including Mr Costa!!
I guesstimated next seasons prices and after picking a team i was left with 17 million for my last 6 players!!
Peaky – Do yourself a favour mate and forget about next seasons FPL until it’s launched! 😉
Thanks a lot to all you guys! I was frequently on FFC, and as it slowly began to slide i was a little worried, because it was such fun. Credit to y’all for coming out and doing this. It was always a sure thing i could come on here and have a chat. Admittedly i haven’t had a fantastic season, but i’m sure it’ll improve with the site’s help
Welcome onboard Milo, you up for some Fantasy World Cup in a few weeks ?
Absolutely. Need some kind of fantasy football fix!
Are you guys running any fantasy world cup competitions? And if so, on which site, I would love to join in
Oh doh! I just read the article, looks good
Clougie can you check your e mail please as you have a invite into league 2
Summer is for Cricket so let’s have some.
Pottys “T20 Blast” starts this Friday the 16th at 5pm.
Its so easy,pick your men and your away.
I have two Plaques available to win.
So head over too…
fantasy.ecb.co.uk
Once your Teams selected please join both these Leagues.
5855-914
And
5855-917
Listen in you don’t need to know much about cricket, look at me as I’m from the County that created cricket and all I know is……
“its lobbed at you that ball and you whack it and run like hell”
Looking forward to seeing you all in the shower at Pottys Pavilion.
Potty
I’m in
Cheers Potty Boy,
I have signed up and will tackle your googly with my middle stump.
I’m in.
Init – Love the team name. – Very clever!
Haha thanks, I’ve forgotten what it was l’ll have to go check! I did that a few weeks ago.
Joined!
Tottenham sack Sherwood
Hey all… Just a quick thank you for running such a great site and to those who reguarly gave advice before each gameweek kicked off. The articles posted are reguarly well written and full of important information that helps a FPL manager.
I personally finished top of my main mini league and will collect what I hope to be over a 100 quid in cash. I finished in the top 25k, it could have been better… I was in the top 10k for a while but a decline towards the end of the season saw me drop a few places.
I can’t wait for the world cup fantasy league to start.
Brilliant stuff Mark, beers are on you then mate!
A Bit of a Stupid Question but does Anyone know how to change your team name on FPL ?
Jeet, on your team page down the bottom is Team Details – click on that and you can do from there. You seen my mail yet?
Cheers Mate! Sorry Cookie what mail ?