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 SELECTION***
PLEASE NOTE: early end to voting this week; 4pm today.
As a result of our previous transfer vote it has been democratically decided to SAVE this week’s FT meaning we will have 2 FTs ahead of Gameweek 3.
We will now ask you to vote for ONE goalkeeper and THREE outfield players who you would place ON THE SUBSTITUTES BENCH for Gameweek 2.
Please list your FOUR players below. This vote will close at 4pm on Friday 14th August (due to the early Gameweek kick off on Friday evening).
Happy voting everyone!
2 hours to go!
Lads, I think you ought to post the squad list each time so lazy people like me don’t have to click back a whole page! 😉
I vote to bench Hennessey, Mings, Huth and Wanyama.
***COMMUNITY TEAM LINEUP***
Thank you all for taking part. The votes are in and are as follows:
Wayne Hennessey 21 votes
Victor Wanyama 22 votes
Robert Huth 21 votes
Tyrone Mings 21 votes
John O’Shea 2 votes
Petr Cech 1 vote
Therefore the bench order for this weekend will be:
Wayne Hennessey – Robert Huth – Tyrone Mings – Victor Wanyama
Our captain (per the Captains Poll) is Sergio Aguero with Harry Kane as vice-captain
As of next week we will ask you to name the captain when you vote for your substitutes so show a true reflection of our community’s choice.
Have a great weekend everyone
GP/NZ/ELL
Visual:
Cheers GP team look set you never know with Kun hope we move up a bit 😉
Good morning Community!
Here is the latest for our community team. 2 points from the bench from Huth as O’Shea again didn’t play.
Let’s go James Milner!
***COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE***
Evening everyone.
Thanks Riyad. Thanks Sergio. The rest? Meh.
35 points on the board for GW2.
Anyway, onwards!
We have 2 free transfers for GW3. We’ll be asking you tomorrow for your transfers to freshen up or team.
Your team, Your community.
GP/NZ/ELL
****COMMUNITY VOTE TIME*********
Hello everyone,
Its time to vote. We have two free transfers so please vote below on which one or two players you would like removing from our squad and who you would like them to be replaced by.
We have zero in the bank so the transfers must remain within the budget of the transfers you make.
So to clarify; please state if you would like to save a transfer or use both, who to sell and who to replace them with.
Squad below:
CECH HENNESSEY
IVANOVIC CEDRIC HUTH O’SHEA MINGS
HAZARD MILNER MANE MAHREZ WANYAMA
AGUERO KANE LAMBERT
Your team, your community.
GP/NZ/ELLE
Cheers NZ.
Use both FT’s
Ivanovic -> Kolarov
Mane -> Yaya Toure
Thanks NIN.
Hi there NZ
Use both transfers
Ivan to Kolarov
Mane to Payet
Thanks Wafflez
***ROLL UP TO VOTE***
My vote goes to
Mings OUT
Martin IN
Milner OUT
Montero IN
Cheers GP
Ivanovic OUT
Kolarov IN
Milner OUT
Payet IN
Thanks Tekno.
Cheers NZ
Ivan out –> Kompany in
Milner out –> Ayew in
My vote:
Ivan to Kolarov
Milner to Ayew
Actually I’m going to change mine and copy Matt;
Ivan to Kompany
Milner to Ayew
Ivan out Ward in
Milner out Payet in
Use both them FT’S.
Iva out for Darmian
Lambert out for Gomis
ivanovic out – shaw in.
milner out – ozil in
Kane out for Giroud
ivanovic out for kompany
Come to vote on the community team! My vote:
Use both FTs.
Lambert —–> Diouf and
Milner —–> Montero
Ivanovic > Shaw
Lambert > Gomis
Hi NZ, Elle and GP!
Here’s my vote!
Use both FT’s:
1st FT: Ivanovic -> Kolarov
2nd FT: Milner -> Payet
That leaves £0.9M ITB.
Figure Milner look the worst (except Lambert) out of our attacking players. Liverpool haven’t created a whole lot and Milner likewise. He also has a tough away game at the Emirates, monday night.
So, instead of downgrading Lambert to Wilson (who has a good run of fixtures after GW3) I went with Ivanovic because of how bad Chelsea’s form is, especially their defending. Heck, Lambert could actually score the winning goal next weekend and beat Chelsea.
Both the BP-magnet Kolarov and Payet are on form and have good fixtures, that’s why I’ve picked them.
Cheers.
Good reasoning Ruben. I voted to ditch Lambert because WBA haven’t scored a goal yet. I’m very hopeful of Ivanovic scoring 6-10 points in that match. If bloody WBA do finally score then I think it’ll tip me over the edge!
Hey there NZ/GP/ELLE
Not the best of weeks but there’s worse…
My vote:
SELL MILNER, BUY YAYA TOURÉ
SELL KANE, BUY GOMIS
This is our first “totally free vote” so you may get too many different options. If so, you may consider a last vote cast for let’s say the 3 more popular combos and see which is then favoured? Just a thought and keep the good work coming.
Cheers
DMC
Sorry for the late reply.
Timescales are very tight but it is something we can consider moving forward.
So I think you mean: Stop the vote after 1 day and then have the next day asking people to vote for just one of the three most popular? This may bring its own problems with people having to vote for players they don’t like.
Your opinions appreciated though mate. Thank you
I really don’t know. This squad looks awful. Hahaha. Just kidding. Hmmm.
Milner and Kane out, Ayew and Bentekers in.
Save 1.
Get Milner out.
Bring Montero in.
Iva > kolarov
Lambert > gomis