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….
Morning all! How’s everyones team coming along?
Just finishing up my WC team. Need two budget defenders who will likely not be selected too much, but could give me the two points when needed.
Thanks!
3rd defender is francis
LOL I commented on the article from July
What is the team or where do I find it ?
Top of the HOME page is COMMUNITY TEAM – surely a good place to find it but no – it says coming shortly from JUNE !!!
**A VERY important Community Team Question***
Simply, we would like to know if you think it is right to play our first wildcard of the season ahead of Gameweek 5?
Why? Well, with some wheeling and dealing, your managers could make a quid or two depending on the state of the transfer market for one but more importantly, we could tidy up those loose ends like Hennessey and Mings not playing and having Sunderland coverage (O’Shea) :say-what: Add to that, we also have one or two underperformers, so what do you think?
Please now vote if you think that the FF247 Community Team should wildcard. Vote will open until 9pm tomorrow evening – at this point we will review the market and see if there are any major risers (or fallers) which we can exploit (or avoid).
Would you like to Wildcard?
YES
or
NO?
GP/NZ/ELL
Also, a reminder of today’s team:
COMMUNITY TEAM WILDCARD ANYONE?
No
Thanks MelonCat
WILDCARD ANYONE ELSE?
Hi GP. Yep it’s time to Wild card.
Yes
Good evening community. You were asked a question wether to wildcard or not during the international break. From the votes posted here on site and on twitter, the count is as follows:-
Activate———–27.
Do not activate—7.
Thanks for voting and as you can see the wildcard has been activated. GP, NZ and myself will endeavour to keep an eye on any price rises so that we can try to up our TV. Please post comments if YOU notice any movement in prices as this is YOUR team.
Just a quick word on GW4 so far. We have had 9 players score 27pts. The 2 stand outs were Cech and Kolarov with 6pts each. Our choice of captain has failed again with Aguero scoring 2pts doubled up to 4pts. We still have Cedric and Mane to play so its come on Southampton.
Cheers.
GP/NZ/ELL.
Oops, didn’t see the vote on time… sorry. Would have voted NO, simply because GP deserves a couple of weeks off!!!
Phew…. Cedric and Mane save the Community Team :red-flag:
***FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM GW4 REVIEW***
Well guys at the first little segment of the season – to the first international break and the longest two weeks of the whole year :sad-face: – the FF247 Community Team has an overall ranking of 649,533 which we think is not too bad at all.
GW4 provided us with 45 points bringing us to 175 overall. The weekly score was 8 points above the average and we guess that’s better than 8 points under!
The week was saved by Southampton on Sunday as it might have been fr many. We had Cedric’s clean sheet and BP and Mane assisting and ‘bonusing’ for us. Cech and Kolarov netting Clean Sheets were the only other players to score more than 2 including our captain, Aguero.
We now have 12 days before our team is active again so how to fill the time? *Strums fingers on desk*
Wildcard, anyone? :smiling:
In case you missed it we have activated the WC per your votes and we are currently monitoring price rises and reacting to those either gaining value to boost our overall Team Value. Around middle to end of next week we will ask you to vote on our finalised wildcard team.
We’ll let you know in due course . . .
GW4 points attached.
GP/NZ/ELL
Team:
Great job FF247 community, that’s not a bad ranking at all considering the crazy start to the FPL season.
GP/NZ/ELL, thanks for running the team fellas. Hopefully we can get a real nice WC team together now that we know who the form players are.
Thank you Red
Wildcard vote will be in around a week or so. Make sure you don’t miss out.