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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I know, I think the French president was at the match. They picked a concert where an American band played. Think they did something with the Germans also? Sighs. So bad. I work with refugees and people in Holland were already afraid and kept their distance from them, will only get worse. I hate this. Makes me so sad.
Sorry Red, this message was meant for you but a page back. *shakes head*
The video has been shown on CNN Red. People in the stadium figured it was fireworks, it sounds like. At least 60 people died.
I’m following it on BBC live now, this is crazy. There are apparently 60+ hostages being held at the Bataclan concert venue. Ugh, I hate this stuff.
Same. Life is unfair and fucked up for some. Being at the wrong place, at the wrong time. This is sickening and it makes me really sad. Will never understand this type of terror. You achieve nothing with it except more terror, and the good people get looked at bad. The people I work with already don’t feel at comfort, this will get much worse now. I feel really sad for the people in Paris, but also the people I see daily.
Hey guys, i agree with everything above! Sucks for everyone! Those carrying out the attacks give the world a really bad impression and then others of the same ethnic and religious group get discriminated against.
I’ve just read that Paris is a very racially segregated and biased city. This won’t help heal wounds and division.
Yeah man, sickening. The fools starting this shit are just ignorant bastards. Killing innocent people like that. The fact they also kill other Muslims tells me they are doing this out of pure hatred and brutality. Mad world.
Cheers for the updates lads. It’s been a tough ride so far, but we’re getting there. Just
Thank you NiN.
We’ve made mistakes sure but which team hasn’t?
This is true, GP, this is all too true
I’m afraid to log in to my team and see whatever extra flags have emerged!
NiN
I have more flags than the UN mate :noshake:
Hopefully some clear up before we kick off next gameweek. Or maybe there’ll be more :shiftyeyes:
Great to see such an article
The team is doing really great considering its first season
glad to be a part of its management 😉
i am not having the best of season till now
Overall rank 8,65,474
Used the AOA Chip
team value £98.8M
in the bank £5.1M
Overall value £103.9M
Nishant
You’re doing great for us mate 😉
Any injuries during internationals that will affect the FPL world? I noticed Smalling is on yellow now. Did he pick up a knock during Spain game or is it from WBA?
Hi Pancho, yeah Smalling hobbled off last night but not seen any updates on that yet. Van Dijk came off too but likewise.
thanks for the update! Now that I look more closely VVD is on a yellow as well. Also Zouma, but I don’t know how long that has been.
Smalling? Oh dear, that’s not good for United at all at all. He’s been the main man thus far.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
Good morning.
Let’s shake you from this International Break slumber by introducing to you our new Community Team voting structure.
Strawpoll has been brilliant for us in recent weeks but it may have been gazumped by our new ‘partners’ Survey Monkey.
No it’s not that we’ve employed Raz to collect the votes but rather a new multiple voting system conveniently contained within the same link.
So, study our current squad (attached) and then visit:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/52C62J8
where you will be asked three questions. Please answer the first two on page one and then click the NEXT button to access the third question. Submit your votes by clicking VOTE. That easy!
Feel free to take a look just now but the vote will remain open until late Wednesday evening should you wish time to mull it over.
We welcome your votes and your feedback on this.
GP / NZ / ELLE
Hi TGP – how goes it.
something for you to consider. Survey monkey is the “play off”. So if survey monkey says trf 2, then the top 4 are picked and posted on here? If it says trf 1, then the top 2 are posted on here.
Survey monkey is great but it misses the banter factor so the above could be the best of both worlds. Just a thought.
Voted anyway
Hi dreamers
Certainly one we could discuss but that would leave us going back to manually counting votes on here which can be a pain and so far the turnout had been greater using a votng system.
There is absolutely no reason why you can’t declare your transfers on here after you’ve voted to get some debate going.
I’ll speak to the co-managers.
sometimes the easiest solution is the best so maybe will just post it here as you suggest.
I voted for Bony and Payet out for Kane and Defeulou in.
They are probably the transfers I am making myself. Others in the equation are Lukaku or Tadic.
Thanks for the votes Dreamers.
Done GP..cheers..2 transfers for me..
Thank you Constantine.
Appreciate your taking part as always.
My Pleasure GP..Its always exciting to take part in these surveys and see how the final result varies with your opinions.
You’re missing Cabaye from your list.
EBC
I left him out owing to him being on 4 yellow cards. Thought that might put a lot of us off.
GP,
I fired off my responses: I’ve been thinking about related problems for at least a week. Because the choices are complex, so I won’t be disappointed if others choose to disagree.
My two assumptions:
1. Aguero won’t play more than a half-hour, first time out.
2. We need to be sure to have the cash to get Aguero for gw14.
KI
It’s all about how you personally see it mate. Well done for voting.
We’ll see if the Aguero gamblers outweigh the conservative ‘wait-and-see’ brigade and also, if we can afford him.