Fantasy Football The FF247 Community Team
What is it they say about a camel being a horse designed by committee? Well we wanted to see if we too could create a camel from well, a few donkeys actually, but let’s not be harsh and name names. You know who you are!
The inaugural season was always going to be one laced with teething problems but we are dealing with them as best we can and as diplomatically as we can. The Nobel Prize is in the bag we feel. We try to take an open view on all matters relating to our team and do what the people want or as close as we can get based on the voices we hear. Not in our heads, the other ones we mean.
The purpose of this article is to simply provide a refresh and a reminder as to our progress so far and encourage continued participation going forward. If you have participated in any of our voting thus far, then thank you. That’s what it’s all about.
The story so far
From selecting our budget distribution to a preferred formation to filling the positions player by player in GW1, it was something new, different and exciting. We enjoyed it and let’s be honest, it was something else to focus on after we had all torn up our one hundredth draft and rated our own two hundredth team! We were then set for Game-week 1 with this:
We were bang on the 34 average for that first week.
Just one man remains within our current squad. Guess who?! Riyad Mahrez has undoubtedly been our player of the season. There are a few names to cringe, squirm or wince at there, with hindsight of course.
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The stats
We have 587 points in total.
Currently we reside in position 527,351 of 3,564,851 (within the top 15%)
Team Value: £99.9M. Money in the bank: £2.8M. Overall value: £102.7M
We have made 9 transfers so far and only twice have we voted to save a free transfer and have two to use the next week.
Our Wildcard was used in Game-week 5.
All other chips are still to be used.
Lowest overall rank was in Game-week 2 where we fell to 1,762,749.
Highest overall rank was in Game-week 10 of 214,372.
Game-week 8 was our highest individual point scoring week where we scored 95.
Game-week 1 was the lowest where we managed 34.
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The biggest evolution so far is the streamlining of our voting system by using the independent ‘Strawpoll’ site and its ‘one-tick’ voting system which has proved very popular amongst voters and counters alike! This system has made the whole process of voting much more enjoyable and since its introduction, voting has increased immeasurably and as much as trebled some weeks. We pray this feature remains available to us otherwise Calvin Clyne is going to have to dedicate himself to setting up something similar for us having found Strawpoll for us originally.
Where we are now – GW13
This is how the squad looks ahead of GW13.
Clearly not in the prime of it’s health! But at the same time it may get by on crutches. Or a zimmer frame at least. Fear not though as said walking aids will be administered this week in the form of transfers and luckily we have two of those so it should be a fun week of voting on how best to get this sorry lot up and running again. Keep an eye and ear out for the polls in the comments below in the coming days and help nurse us back to health.
Remember, much like everything else for this team, when we use any of our chips is up to you. If you feel it is a good time to play one, let us know and if we think it merits a vote, we’ll do just that. They have to be used sometime!
We welcome any of your views. If you can see an improvement or a change, please bring it to us by commenting under the FF247 Community Team tab on site here or on twitter @ff247communityteam where all comments are replied to. Remember it is your team and your continued support which is keeping this thing going.
We’ll leave you to check yourselves how we compare to the FF247 site team so far…
Thanks, GP/NZ/ELLE
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* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM VOTE *
Ready to vote on our team for Game-week 32?
You voted to utilise our TWO free transfers and the votes tallied that Jack Butland and Gylfi Sigurdsson have been sold and replace by Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois and West ham’s Dmitri Payet. Sound moves right there.
So we now need to set up our team. Please follow the link below and select your FOUR players who you would substitute and then after clicking NEXT, please select your captain for the week and DONE.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/87R2WZT
Team above.
Thanks for all your support everyone.
GP/NZ/ELLE
I will (again): Did someone say “Wildcard” . . . . 😉 WC33/BB34
Yeah KI thank you.
Hoping that will be the case. It SHOULD be.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM VOTE *
Good evening FPLers. . .
Ready to vote on our team for Game-week 32?
You voted to utilise our TWO free transfers and the votes tallied that Jack Butland and Gylfi Sigurdsson have been sold and replace by Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois and West ham’s Dmitri Payet. Sound moves right there.
So we now need to set up our team. Please follow the link below and select your FOUR players who you would substitute and then after clicking NEXT, please select your captain for the week and DONE.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/87R2WZT
Team above.
Thanks for all your support everyone.
GP/NZ/ELLE
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE *
Nice voting everyone. Our team collected 79 points and a good rise in the rankings to now be within the top quarter of a million.
Aguero didn’t bomb as captain. Although like I tipped personally, we should have captained Bellerin or Morgan :winktongue:
One of the good weeks. Enjoy everyone.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE *
A little reminder incase you missed it here last night or on twitter.
Our team collected 79 points and a good rise in the rankings to now be within the top quarter of a million.
Aguero didn’t bomb as captain. Although like I tipped personally, we should have captained Bellerin or Morgan :winktongue:
One of the good weeks. Enjoy everyone.
Great stuff GP, superb week – if only they had listened to you eh?!
All my advice this week was dreadful in truth.
Told Elle I didn’t fancy Morgan for a clean sheet, told one or two I’d bring in Willian and said I just didn’t fancy Sigurdsson to get anything.
#jonah
Well at least you didn’t captain Antonio :cuckoo:
Cookie
I did OK myself (Payet captain, Bellerin was my transfer in) but I always feel genuinely awful when my advice to others bombs. :sad-face:
Have you kept hold of Ritchie though?
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
Turning our attention to the first DGW of the season now as Game-week 33 approaches.
So Crystal Palace and Everton play twice and we have exactly no coverage from either. Do we use a transfer to bring in some?
**IMPORTANTLY, SHOULD WE WILDCARD THIS WEEK AHEAD OF A POTENTIAL BENCH BOOST IN GW34?**
Please take a look at our squad (attached) and then visit this link and let us know who YOU would buy and sell.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/H657G65
Please click NEXT after the first two parts of the vote and then DONE to ensure your vote is registered.
OR
leave a comment saying ‘WILDCARD’
We’re ready to listen.
GP / NZ / ELLE
Thanks GP, vote to wildcard submiited – good luck with that
Well in Cookie :thumbup:
Completely unrelated, you busy this week? :winktongue:
“Completely unrelated” !!!
yes!
Vote WC BRING IT ON
Nice Silvers.
Looking likely.