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 *
Our transfer this week was almost forced upon us having the realisation hit us that we have no playing goalkeeper.
We are now aboard the Butland bus! And Asmir, friend, it was generally awful while it lasted.
Please vote now for this week’s team and captain. You may wait until the team news is out. The vote stays open until Saturday.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SB9QYYZ
Please ensure you click NEXT and then DONE after the second question.
Thanks guys.
GP / NZ / ELLE
Thanks GP, all done
Thank you Cookie!
I wouldn’t be thanking him. Anyways I just voted also.
Thank you Mito!
You best check that vote, GP – Lord knows you’ll end up playing 5-3-2 with Westwood capo!!!
That might help . . .
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM VOTE *
In case you missed it, we have made our transfer for the week – Jack Butland has come in in place of Asmir Begovic.
Looking for votes now for this week’s team and captain. You may wish to wait until the team news is out which is fine. The vote will stay open until Saturday.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SB9QYYZ
Please ensure you click NEXT and then DONE after the second question.
Thanks guys.
GP / NZ / ELLE
All done TGP
Cheers Dreamers.
Homework done GP, obvious on the bench and Kane capo. I’d be tempted to cut the crap out of that bench question and just get straight down to the only possibles. Just my thoughts
Evening Init,
You mean ask people to select the eleven starting players as opposed to the subs?
hey TGP – I’d imagine there are some “dead cert” subs = Westwood , McCarthy.
I think Init means – ask which 2 defenders you would bench as opposed to the full list – but….. over to Init to confirm
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM VOTE *
Amidst your own panic about transfers this week, please vote now for our Community Team’s starting team and captain.
The vote stays open until Saturday just before the deadline.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SB9QYYZ
Please ensure you click NEXT and then DONE after the second question.
Thanks guys.
GP / NZ / ELLE
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM SELECTION VOTE *
Evening everyone.
Can we all take a minute to vote if we have not already done so?
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SB9QYYZ
Please ensure you click NEXT and then DONE after the second question.
Thanks guys.
GP / NZ / ELLE
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE *
Attached is our team’s score for Game-week 16.
While Mahrez was again brilliant for us (thank goodness we’ve had him from the start!), a disappointing captain call again lets us down.
Thanks for all your help guys.
Onwards!
GP / NZ / ELLE
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE GW17 *
Hello team! We now encourage your thoughts/opinions/criticisms on our current squad. We have some good things and some bad things and we need YOU to let us know what needs improving first!
Please look at the team below and then let us know the number of transfers/who will be leaving and then who will be joining us in your view.
Remember to click on ‘NEXT’ and then ‘DONE’ after each part of the vote.
Our latest transfer – Jack Butland in for Asmir Begovic – brought us in 11 points in his first week. I think we’ll be pushed to beat that but let’s try!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ZPNVHPC
GP/NZ/ELLE
Morning GP can you put the transfer page up so we can see value of each player and what we have in bank cheers mate
Silvers,
There you go mate. There is a five second delay between posting the article (PC) to attaching the picture (mobile) and you got in there in between super-speedie!
Squad:
GP I like to be quick I’m thinking are def looks a bit light for the coming wks Depending on Haz injury I think we need to do something about are def so take a hit.
We also need to access Westwood injury as well which could change are tack.
I think the problem we have is transfers , our team value is very low in the lg run this will hurt us I’m not quite sure how we overcome this , but we need to look at it.
Great work by the people that run it , a lot of respect for you guys. 😉
Thank you Silvers, we do our best here
I agree with you and I may too vote for two transfers this week. Squad is a bit thin.
All done GP – Hazard outski….fancy Naughton, Kolarov and Evans is fine for this weekend, but we’ll see how the vote goes!
Thank you Cookie.
I agree mate.