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 *
LET’S GET THESE VOTES IN PEOPLE!
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
^^ Team above ^^
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
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM VOTE *
LET’S GET THESE VOTES IN PEOPLE!
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 tomorrow morning when the final team will be selected.
GP / NZ / ELLE
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM GW13 *
Well good morning and thank you for your votes this week.
The votes were conclusive and the subs have been selected to leave our team looking liked this:
Lukaku won our captain vote by a long distance.
Good luck to us guys.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
Hello. Ell will be along later with a round up of our past week’s performance but meantime we’ll press on with our Game-week 14 vote.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JBCHBF6
To decide our transfers for the week.
Who goes?
GP / NZ / ELLE
done GP..bye bye Pelle. Welcome kane
Thanks Constantine.
Good evening folks. Just a short round up of our FF247 community teams antics this past gameweek.
We start with Mr Begovic and would you Asmir and Eve it, he managed to keep a clean sheet and get us off to a good start with 6pts in a rare Chelski victory.
We played 3 defenders with Morgan bringing 6pts in a comfortable win for Leicester at the Toon. Kolarov managed 3pts with an assist in a dreadful City performance versus Liverpool. Our last defender Naughton only brought 1pt in a Swans 2-2 stalemate with Bournemouth.
Our midfielders were a bit hit and miss. Mahrez kicked us off with 9pts up at the Toon, claiming an assist, a cleanie and 3 bonus pts. Although Arsenal lost at WBA Ozil managed to get 8pts with an assist and 3 bonus pts but Sanchez was unlucky with only getting 2pts as he gained a penalty only for Cazorla to put the spot kick somewhere into space. Interestingly the Premier League have got NASA looking for the ball as they want it back.
So on to our forwards, MMMMM ! Mr Pelle, the less said the better, 1pt in a 1-0 home defeat to Stoke. He also managed a booking, bringing a 1 game ban. Lets move on. Up at Newcastle Vardy was gunning for Mr Nostrilhairs record of scoring in 10 consecutive Premier League games and he did it, bringing 7pts with a goal and a bonus point. Last but not least is our hit and miss captain Romelu. It was the Villa who were his opponents at Goodison and in a 4-0 drubbing he was a hit. He managed to score 2 goals and earn 2 bonus pts, being doubled, he brought us 24pts. Well done Mr Lukaku.
We didn’t have any big points from our benched players as 2 scored 2pts and 2 didn’t play.
The total points for the week was 69pts, 14 above average. It gives us a total of 656pts and an overall placing of 422,056.
Well done fellow FF247ers for some great team work this week. So lets move onward and upward with gameweek 14.
GP / NZ / ELLE
Thanks very much elle.
Much better and funnier than I could have done.
After a couple of poor weeks it’s nice to be back scoring well.
Morning all, COMMUNITY VOTE TIME, please come and vote for the transfer and whilst your here, have a read of Elle’s round up so far. Cheers All
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JBCHBF6
To decide our transfers for the week.
GP / NZ / ELLE
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
Good afternoon and welcome to our next vote!
Now first off, bear with us please as we find a preferred voting schedule for the week.
Right now we ask for your preferred GRAZIANO PELLE replacement only.
Please vote at:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JVH8CVZ
Vote open until tomorrow afternoon.
GP / NZ / ELLE
Bah, i missed the first vote. Got this one though :thumbup:
Cheers NiN