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 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
Morning GP just voted not sure about new format , easy to do but keeps asking you to sign up for some sort of survey also couldn’t see how vote was going ,was there a reason for changing cheers mate.
Hi Silvers.
I’m sorry to hear that mate. How often were you pushed to sign up and how easy was it to by-pass it? Haven’t heard this from anyone else yet.
Should just be a matter of 5 or 6 clicks.
I believe there is an option to show the ‘results in progress’ after you’ve voted which I will try to include next time. Can’t alter it now.
Using this site allows me to use multiple votes on the same Weblink and the results are collated and at a glance. Its a time-saver in short.
If you get back to me on above questions, I’ll see if I can do anything for the next vote.
Just done it again now GP and I wasn’t asked to sign up at all. The final page offers an option to do so but it certainly wasn’t pressing me to.
Results in progress is always key on surveys. No idea why but people like to see the number of votes.
I’ve got a solution in the making to opening in a new window too. Solution is with Rich though so don’t hold your breath
Who’s Rich?
Mythical creature. Said to live in a cave with Kop.
Should be able to include it from the next one Init.
Hope rich can help. I remember that guy.
Kop will be out the cave in 10 minutes or so calling the craic !
Maybe list the lot in alphabetical order too while we are fine tuning 😉
Init
Noted.
It wasn’t that hard GP, think Silvers was probably sober when he did it, just give him a few beers and he will get it. 😉
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
Hello.
Let’s get the votes in for this week’s Community Team transfers.
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
Squad
This squad is crap! How you let it get to this?! Ohhh, that’s right the community voted on it…never mind, carry on.
How’s the site team doing Mito? 😉
I don’t know, I only narrate how they did the previous GW. I was kicked out of the site committee for making sensible recommendations.
:rant:
Hi TGP. I have made my vote. Hope you don’t mind me pointing out that its doesn’t have an apostophe unless it’s short for it is. See what I did there?
dear lord, after that I think I will go start writing the review for the site team. :geez:
Horse
ApostRophe I assume? 😉
Jesting mate. Thanks for that. IT’S autocorrect as usual.
TGP
Touche.
Hope you are good mate!
Not bad at all horse.
Watching Ireland here. Wish we could carry that little bit of luck in such matches.
Next summer isn’t gonna be pleasant for us :sad-face:
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
We introduce 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.
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 tomorrow evening should you wish time to mull it over.
We welcome your votes and your feedback on this.
GP / NZ / ELLE
Evening all any new injury’s for me to worry about bit busy at moment cheers guys.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM VOTE *
Thank you all for the excellent response to our transfer survey.
The result of which reads as follows:
* To use two transfers was the first vote result.
* You voted to sell Dmitri Payet & Wilfried Bony with these transfers.
* You voted to transfer in Mesut Ozil and Romelu Lukaku.
This has left our squad looking as attached . . . .
Now,
Please follow this link to select your Starting Team and Captain for the week:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Q8KLN66
You will be asked which players to bench, please do so then click the NEXT tab where you will then be asked to name your captain and afterwards it’s DONE.
Simple
The vote will remain open until Saturday morning when the final team will be selected.
We thank you for all your support with this.
GP / NZ / ELLE
Duty done. If Aguero comes on with, say 30 minutes, and scores, would folks contemplate a -4? Say Sanchez out, with I think about 8.1 for another mid who has to play regularly? Just musing…
KI
That option (of two transfers with Aguero in mind) will be available for next week’s vote yeah.
Thanks for voting mate.
And thanks for the continuing effort…I love surveymonkey…here. Hate it at work, where my colleagues use it to try to trap me into far too many useless meetings.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM VOTE *
Thank you all for the excellent response to our transfer survey.
The result of which reads as follows:
* To use two transfers was the first vote result.
* You voted to sell Dmitri Payet & Wilfried Bony with these transfers.
* You voted to transfer in Mesut Ozil and Romelu Lukaku.
This has left our squad looking as attached . . . .
Now,
Please follow this link to select your Starting Team and Captain for the week:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Q8KLN66
You will be asked which players to bench, please do so then click the NEXT tab where you will then be asked to name your captain and afterwards it’s DONE.
Simple
The vote will remain open until Saturday morning when the final team will be selected.
We thank you for all your support with this.
GP / NZ / ELLE