Fantasy Football The FF247 Community Team
What do Heart of Midlothian, AFC Wimbledon and Galatasaray have in common?
They are all football clubs owned and operated by their supporters.
So?
So, I thought that seeing as this works brilliantly within (some) football clubs, then I wondered if this could be transferred to the fantasy world. A hugely talented fantasy player friend of mine first mooted this idea this close season and it got me to thinking, what if we did have our FF247 community represented as a single entity this coming season? I wondered if it could work. I wondered how it would work. I wondered if people would like the idea or how popular it could grow to be. I wondered if the FF247 Community Team could be the first supporter-owned team to win the World Title.
As far as I am aware, there is no other fantasy site with a community team. So are you with me?
Alright, first of all, the selection of everything to do with our team will be “one member, one vote”.
Basically if you go as far as to log in and leave a message to a supporter vote question, then you are a member.
So here is how it will work.
Initial selection
We will firstly vote to decide on our preferred playing formation.
The second vote will be to ask how you think the money in our team should be shared across all four playing positions.
Thirdly and most excitingly of all, the next vote will determine our first player.
I think it is fairest and most sensible to select players alternatively by position in turn beginning with strikers and working back through the team so we would vote thus:
Striker /Midfielder /Defender /Goalkeeper then returning to Striker to continue.
Ahead of each vote I would gauge the popularity of particular players through your discussions and early RMT enquiries and present to you a selection for you to vote for. The aim is to make the list as concise as possible but fear not there will be plenty of choice.
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Weekly selection
I will ask you to vote for one goalkeeper and one outfield player you WOULD PLACE ON THE SUBSTITUTES BENCH. This vote will indicate who the least popular players are for the week and determine the most popular sub – i.e. he who most of you think WON’T have a good gameweek, goes to the last place on the bench, next most popular goes second and third takes first outfield spot on the bench. Goalkeeper with most ‘sub’ votes takes the sub GK spot.
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Transfers
Each week there will be two transfer votes.
The first will ask “Who do you think should be sold from the FF247 Community Team?”
The second will ask: “Who do you think the FF247 Community Team should buy valued at £ ‘X’ ?
Multiple transfers (Points Hits), Wildcards and Chips
This is where it can be a bit hairy for us but not insurmountable – the theory will be that if at least five members request using any of the above, it will be put to a vote.
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Captaincy
We will use the existing captaincy poll on site and select the most popular player for that week who is in the FF247 Community Team. The second most popular within the team will be vice-captain.
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Summary
We will no doubt encounter little problems as we move along but where possible, I will always seek the advice of you, our members as to how they would suggest the problem dealt with.
I will be happy to address any issues or answer any questions you might have – leave them on our Community Team page which will be with us soon. If I don’t answer right away, please check back, I will answer.
I hope you will become involved with each vote as it appears. There may seem like there are a lot of votes but it will literally take you five seconds to take part as most of your replies will be one word.
This is intended to create additional interest away from our own teams, to not take itself too seriously or be bogged down with ‘what-ifs’. We should be democratic but not boring.
It is meant as a way for our fantastic community to bond further and with a bit of luck, to draw new visitors and encourage them to take part with us.
We may even be lucky and form a bit of a local FF247 fantasy rivalry as we progress…..
This is for you guys and your support is appreciated.
‘Your Team, Your Community’
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A word from FF247…
Team Management!
The Gallant Pioneer is your team manager for this one and he will be ably assisted by his two beautiful assistants in the form of NZAlex and Ellefcee. Please support them in this venture, it’s a brave new frontier but something that could work brilliantly given the community we have here.
Just one point though – the second you all start beating the site team it’ll be pulled quicker than a Jack Wilshire muscle 😉
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football The FF247 Community Team – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16. This article was written by The Gallant Pioneer
And follow your new Community Team on twitter here….
Hello Community!
We now have our fifteen-strong FF247 Community Squad:
Cech / Hennessey
Ivanovic / Cedric / Huth / O’Shea / Mings
Hazard / Mane / Milner / Mahrez / Wanyama
Aguero / Kane / Lambert
The FF247 management team has to go on record to say that we think that is a nicely balanced squad. Time will tell . . .
Now we must find out how we should set our line-up for Gameweek 1 which is tomorrow.
The vote is simple.
Please vote for:
ONE goalkeeper you would place ON THE BENCH; and
THREE outfield players you would place ON THE BENCH
The most popular bench players will be on the substitutes bench with order determined by popularity in the vote.
Captaincy is taken care of as we simply use our highest ranked player on the FF247 Captain’s Poll.
Let’s get voting!
We now know that Pellegrini has commented that Aguero is “working at 100%” but the “South Americans are not at 100%” . .
VOTE CLOSES AT 11PM THIS EVENING.
Please now vote concisely. Your co-operation is appreciated.
Visual with fixtures:
Looks good as is GP.
All your hard work is almost done… for a few days at least. Great job getting this started. Looking forward to seeing how a community-based team will fare.
BENCH:
Hennessey
Mings, Wanyama, O’Shea
Hello Community!
We now have our fifteen-strong FF247 Community Squad:
Cech / Hennessey
Ivanovic / Cedric / Huth / O’Shea / Mings
Hazard / Mane / Milner / Mahrez / Wanyama
Aguero / Kane / Lambert
The FF247 management team has to go on record to say that we think that is a nicely balanced squad. Time will tell . . .
Now we must find out how we should set our line-up for Gameweek 1 which is tomorrow.
The vote is simple.
Please vote for:
ONE goalkeeper you would place ON THE BENCH; and
THREE outfield players you would place ON THE BENCH
The most popular bench players will be on the substitutes bench with order determined by popularity in the vote.
Captaincy is taken care of as we simply use our highest ranked player on the FF247 Captain’s Poll.
Let’s get voting!
We now know that Pellegrini has commented that Aguero is “working at 100%” but the “South Americans are not at 100%” . .
VOTE CLOSES AT 11PM THIS EVENING.
Please now vote concisely. Your co-operation is appreciated.
Bench:
Hennessey, O’Shea, Mings, Wanyama
Well done lads
Thanks ell
Hennessey
Wanyama
O’Shea
Mings
Hennessey, Huth, O’Shea + Wanyama.
****POLL CLOSED****
The votes will now be counted and an announcement made on the first FF247 Community Team starting line-up.
Thanks for all your votes.
GP/NZ/ELL
FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM – STARTING LINE-UP – GW 1
It should come as no surprise that our big hitters have made the cut for gameweek 1 so it can be assured we’ll have our strongest team out.
Here it is (3-4-3 formation), per your votes
Cech
Ivanovic Huth Cedric
Mahrez Milner Hazard Mane
Kane Aguero Lambert
So simply, we begin Saturday hoping Kane can continue his form of last season at OT in the early kick off. Oddly we then have just two players at 3pm and both are Leicester players! Let’s hope Mahrez knocks one in and Huth keeps Sunderland out. On Saturday evening, our main midfield man (and captain) Hazard squares off against the Swansea defence and let’s hope he and our other Blue, defender Ivanovic, can get the Chelsea title defence off to a flying start. That wraps Saturday for our team.
On Sunday, at 1.30pm, our sole Arsenal representative Petr Cech makes his competitive home debut. It will be odd cheering on ONLY Arsenal defence – but that’s what we must do. At the other end of the land our two Southampton lads – defender Cedric and striker Pelle kick off at the same time and hopefully can set the brolly man’s Newcastle career off to a damp start (geddit?) ?
Later in the day new signing James Milner flies our flag at the ever-windy Britannia Stadium at 4pm
On Monday night our team is completed by two strikers going head to head. Aguero speaks for himself –probably speaking from the comfort of the substitutes bench but he can be quite the impact player and will be desperate to christen his new shirt number (No. 10 now that the main man Dzeko had finally left) with a goal or two. Rickie Lambert should start the game for the Baggies and any penalties for the Midlanders should fall to our third striker.
As standard, we take to the captains poll to select our captain and the winner by a mile is Eden Hazard. Second most popular on the poll who is in our side is Aguero so:
Captain: Eden Hazard (v Swansea City)
Vice-captain: Sergio Aguero (v West Bromwich Albion)
The Community Management wish you and your individual teams the best of luck this coming season. Remember, the Community Team is YOUR ‘B’ team so please remain involved with all the votes.
Enjoy the season everyone.
GP/NZ/ELL
Your starting line-up:
ive only 4 of your starting 11 GP. That kind of scares me
Dreams a lot of peeps won’t have the front line, i haven’t got any of these strikers.
It’s kind of comforting to see that my own starting XI isn’t the only one with double Leicester coverage! :cuckoo:? £100m really does not feel like enough.
Though now I’m quite happy having Mahrez in my XI.
Democracy did gave us Mahrez so not that bad!
***COMMUNITY TEAM***
Good morning everyone.
After day 1 the Community Team is as attached.
Solid start. Well done.
Thanks Riyad :smiling: