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 VOTE***
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) TONIGHT!
Let’s hear your thoughts.
GP/NZ/ELL
Sell Lambert.
Save
Sell lambert
***COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE RESULT***
Thank you for your votes.
Results are as follows:
Lambert 19 votes
Mane 4 votes
Save FT 3 votes
Kane 1 vote
Hazard 1 vote
So Rickie Lambert will be sold this week. His sale value is £5.9M and we have £0.8M in the bank therfore a total of £6.7M can be spent on a replacement.
Attached is our current squad with this week’s fixtures and on the right, a list of top-scoring forwards of £6.7M or less for the season so far.
Please now vote for your preferred replacement.
This vote will close at 9pm on Thursday 27th August 2015.
Happy voting.
GP / NZ / ELL
hey TGP, whats the teams WC plans as it plays into it?
Dreamers
We aren’t playing it this week. But a question will be asked here on Friday night 😉
Hmmm. You see its probably Diouf if not playing it next week and Wilson if you are….
Diouf
Wilson.
I like Diouf for this spot.
Yeah, let’s DIOUF this !!!
Diouf
Wilson.
Wilson
Buy Diouf :thumbup:
WILSON
Diouf better games over nk 5 GW
Hey Guys,
Playing my wildcard after an atrocious start to the season. Any comments or feedback??
Was also maybe thinking of getting in Costa upfront at the expense of Gomis. Think Pedro is going to be creating alot of chances for him. I also have Ayew as cover who is looking hot
With the crazy start to the season, I wouldn’t triple up on Chelsea. But then again, doubling up on Swansea is a bit of a punt too. Benteke maybe?
meant as an answer to Oldfield above
Benteke is an option but i think both ayew and Gomis will get lots of chances! Another option wud be Lukaku but he has a tough run of fixtures.
***COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER GW4***
Evening everyone – ONE AND A HALF HOURS UNTIL VOTE CLOSES
The votes just now are actually very close so your vote could be making ALL the difference
So Rickie Lambert will be sold this week. His sale value is £5.9M and we have £0.8M in the bank therefore a total of £6.7M can be spent on a replacement.
Attached is our current squad with this week’s fixtures and on the right, a list of top-scoring forwards of £6.7M or less for the season so far.
Please now vote for your preferred replacement.
This vote will close at 9pm this evening
Happy voting.
GP / NZ / ELL
Team
I say go for Wilson
Diouf
Buy Diouf
Wilson GP
Wilson
Kop
I get that :thumbup: