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 FOR GW3***
In the regular fashion, please VOTE FOR ONE goalkeeper who you would place on the bench and VOTE FOR THREE outfield players who you would place on the bench.
As a trial aimed at more accurately reflecting our community’s views on captain choice, PLEASE ALSO NOMINATE YOUR PREFERRED CAPTAIN CHOICE FOR THIS WEEKEND.
CECH/HENNESSEY
KOLAROV/CEDRIC/HUTH/MINGS/O’SHEA
PAYET/HAZARD/MAHREZ/MANE/WANYAMA
AGUERO/KANE/LAMBERT
This poll will close at 9pm TONIGHT
GP/NZ/ELL
Team
Bench: Cech, Wanyama, O’Shea, Mings.
Capt: Agüero
Here you are guys:
Cech
Mings
O’Shea
Wanyama
+1, and my captain is top of pole, Aguero
***COMMUNITY TEAM GW3***
Well guys we are now set for gameweek 3, with our two new players and a captain selected.
We line up like this:
CECH
CEDRIC HUTH KOLAROV
MAHREZ PAYET HAZARD MANE
KANE AGUERO LAMBERT
HENNESSEY – O’SHEA WANYAMA MINGS
Our captain voted for by you with a clear majority is hardly surprisingly one, Sergio Aguero. The Vice Captain taken from the Captains Poll will be Eden Hazard who is hardly a bad replacement if something happens to Sergio (gasp!)
Well this has been the most straightforward vote yet with only a small handful of votes going elsewhere from our finalised bench above. A vote here and there for Huth and Lambert hardly troubled the vote count and it was only that slightly fewer voted for John O’Shea which tips him in to Place 1 on our bench.
The team is straight forward with our new signings, Aleksandar Kolarov and Dmitri Payet, slotting in nicely next to the more established Huth, Cedric, Hazard, Mane and our man-of-the-season Mahrez.
The strikers led by Aguero, continue to be Rickie Lambert and Harry Kane.
Good luck us and enjoy your weekend everyone. Let the points toll home (please).
GP/NZ/ELL
Team
Congratulations for a sterling job, GP!!!
You know, give or take a couple if fringe players, this looks almost like a wild card team – it’s in real good shape.
Good stuff GP, cheers mate. I think it will do well this week.
Morning!
Well guys we are now set for gameweek 3, with our two new players and a captain selected.
We line up like this:
CECH
CEDRIC HUTH KOLAROV
MAHREZ PAYET HAZARD MANE
KANE AGUERO LAMBERT
HENNESSEY – O’SHEA WANYAMA MINGS
Our captain voted for by you with a clear majority is hardly surprisingly one, Sergio Aguero. The Vice Captain taken from the Captains Poll will be Eden Hazard who is hardly a bad replacement if something happens to Sergio (gasp!)
Well this has been the most straightforward vote yet with only a small handful of votes going elsewhere from our finalised bench above. A vote here and there for Huth and Lambert hardly troubled the vote count and it was only that slightly fewer voted for John O’Shea which tips him in to Place 1 on our bench.
The team is straight forward with our new signings, Aleksandar Kolarov and Dmitri Payet, slotting in nicely next to the more established Huth, Cedric, Hazard, Mane and our man-of-the-season Mahrez.
The strikers led by Aguero, continue to be Rickie Lambert and Harry Kane.
Good luck us and enjoy your weekend everyone. Let the points toll home (please).
GP/NZ/ELL
Thanks again GP and Kiwi and Ellle for all your work on the Community Team. Score well this week.
***COMMUNITY TEAM GW3 REVIEW***
Morning all.
59 points and start turns from three players with the rest sadly being quite mediocre.
We finished the week just inside the top 900,000 and we were 14 points above the weekly average.
Thanks to our Community’s brilliant clairvoyance we brought in Kolarov and he rewarded us immediately with a monster 15 points. Cech finished our weekend off perfectly with 11 points against Liverpool on Monday night and before that Riyad Mahrez again scored double digits to make that the in a row.
John O’Shea finally played, Tyrone Mings still isn’t bothering the first eleven and Rickie Lambert was rotated out on Sunday.
Aguero, our captain, was denied by Tim Howard a couple of times so wasn’t far away but the bottom line was he scored just 4 points.
Thank you all once again.
GP / NZ / ELL
Excellent week GP, well done all!
Thanks Cookie.
Doing relatively well I think. Like most, we have our problems but we’ll get there.
***COMMUNITY TEAM GAMEWEEK 4***
After a decent 59 point haul in week three and a comfortable 14 points above average, we now move on to look at Gameweek 4.
We need to know if you would like to transfer a player out of our team or save the free transfer to give us two transfers ahead of the return of the English Premier League after the international break.
**Should you feel that we would be better served using any of our chips at any point, please state so and if we receive at least five votes for the same chip, we will put it to a separate vote.**
So for Gameweek 4 please vote:
SELL CECH
SELL HENNESSEY
SELL CEDRIC
SELL HUTH
SELL KOLAROV
SELL O’SHEA
SELL MINGS
SELL PAYET
SELL MAHREZ
SELL HAZARD
SELL MANE
SELL WANYAMA
SELL KANE
SELL AGUERO
SELL LAMBERT
or
SAVE FT
Voting will close at 9pm on Wednesday 26th August 2015 (UK time)
Let’s hear your thoughts.
GP/NZ/ELL
Team:
Sell Lambert
Sell Lambert.
Sell Mane :thumbup:
Sell mane
Sell Lambert to Wilson
Matt
Take that as a SELL LAMBERT
Thanks.
Oh yeah sorry just remembered
Cheers GP.
Nice work guys
Probably an idea to WC over the break to allow a longer time to pick the new team, in which case no point in saving a FT.
Sell Lambert.
Cheers CC
Sell Lambert
Sell Lambert!
Bugger, I’ get outvoted as usual… ( which is probably why the team is doing rather well)
I’d be tempted to suggest Mings > Gomez, but in preparation of some heavy lifting over the intl break, my vote is
SAVE THE TRANSFER
PS: do we have any money itb?
Duh, just saw the 0.8 ITB at the top of the image – my bad
Sell Lambert
SELL MANE
SELL MANE (-> trying to steer you to double counting cause Lambs is not the priority!!!)
SELL LAMBERT
SELL KANE
A lot more in form options
Sell Lambert
Sell Lambert
+1