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….
***COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE***
Evening all
After the second day of GW1 our team has scored as attached.
Aguero and Lambert tomorrow night
Come on guys hat trick each please.
That team did shite!
*looks at site team
Hmmm, lucky bastards.
I take it it won’t take much to beat you guys this week? :smiling:
We said we help with your community team, it wouldn’t be much help if we crushed you from the start.
Most grateful Mito!
BTW, I just peed on the Community team, that’s why is yellow.
Go see a doctor Mito. Your piss should not look like that. That’s almost luminous!
It’s ok Bihom, I drank a protein shake.
Mito, have you considered entering the site team in the FF247 regulars league? Just for laughs, you know…
Looking good, GP! (the team, I mean…)
If Aguero or Lambert don’t play, we get Wanyama’s massive points haul, right?
Well 34 is pretty decent for an average 27 pts (bar BP) week. Power to the people!
***COMMUNITY TEAM GW1 UPDATE***
Good afternoon everyone.
Our site time is average.
No really, we are bang on the 34 point average leaving us in 1,283,943 position after the first set of fixtures.
So where did it all go wrong (or right?). Well of our 34 points 16 of them came from Leicester players. Basically Riyad Mahrez scored as many points individually as the combined total of Ivanovic, MIlner, Hazard, Mane, Kane, Aguero AND Lambert.
Well it’s however we get those points I suppose. But we’ll be hoping for a marked improvement from a number of our players especially the big guns.
Attached is the visual display.
Stand by for transfer voting coming soon.
GP/NZ/ELL
Visual score
****TIME TO VOTE – COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER****
It is time to let us know what YOU think should be done with this week’s free transfer (FT).
We have sixteen options which include selling any one of our fifteen squad members or saving the FT to have access to two transfers for Gameweek 3.
Please now vote which player you would sell or if you would SAVE the FT.
SAVE FT
SELL CECH
SELL HENNESSEY
SELL IVANOVIC
SELL CEDRIC
SELL HUTH
SELL O’SHEA
SELL MINGS
SELL HAZARD
SELL MILNER
SELL MANE
SELL MAHREZ
SELL WANYAMA
SELL AGUERO
SELL KANE
SELL LAMBERT
This vote will close tomorrow at 11pm (Wednesday 12 August).
Please have your say.
Your Team, Your Community.
GP/NZ/ELL
SELL IVANOVIC
Sell OShea
SAVE
Save FT.
SAVE
Save FT
Save ft
Save FT
Save this week so can get rid of Ivanovic next week
Sell Aguero
Agreed ^
Could be a great move
SAVE FT
GP,
Can you show us the lineup (as it stands) for gw2, please?
Cheers!
Los Machos
See below mate.
Save FT.
SELL FT
sell Kane
Hey there GP/NZ/ELL
Difficult to decide if not knowing who would we be buying but I guess that’s the only way to go.
My vote is: SAVE FT!
Cheers
Save FT
Save FT
Sell Ivanovic (to raise funds to upgrade rest of defense, including Hennessey).
****TIME TO VOTE – COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER****
It is time to let us know what YOU think should be done with this week’s free transfer (FT).
We have sixteen options which include selling any one of our fifteen squad members or saving the FT to have access to two transfers for Gameweek 3.
Please now vote which player you would sell or if you would SAVE the FT.
SAVE FT
SELL CECH
SELL HENNESSEY
SELL IVANOVIC
SELL CEDRIC
SELL HUTH
SELL O’SHEA
SELL MINGS
SELL HAZARD
SELL MILNER
SELL MANE
SELL MAHREZ
SELL WANYAMA
SELL AGUERO
SELL KANE
SELL LAMBERT
This vote will close tomorrow at 11pm (Wednesday 12 August).
Please have your say.
Your Team, Your Community.
GP/NZ/ELL
The team as it stands:
I be saving it with that current squad.
Cheers mito. You well pal?
Hey NZ, long time no see. 😉 yeah all is well.
Thanks, GP!
my vote: SELL IVAN
(cue Ivan goal/assist vs ManC and plenty of egg on my face)
Machos
No worries.
Thanks for your vote. Greatly appreciated.
Save FT
Thanks CC
SAVE FT
Thank you James
Either oshea or ivanovic
Can you do both for a -4?
Mitro,
We’re only considering points hits in extraordinary circumstances.
Where is your vote going?
hey GP/NZ/ELL
SAVE FT
Which would be best for this game week playing 3-4-3 & benching Oxford or playing 4-4-2 & benching Defoe & having Oxford 1st sub ?