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….
Hello again folks, the transfer of Wilson out and Vardy in has been done. Now its time to vote on your preferred substitutes. Please pick 4 players, including 1 keeper, to sit on our bench.
Please also vote on your preferred captain choice.
Voting will run until Saturday at 09-00am (UK time).
So come on down and get voting please for your Community Team. Look up to see the team.
Thanks.
GP / NZ /ELL.
McCarthy, Martin, Morgan & Westwood
Capo- Aguero.
+1 to that :thumbup:
Yet another +1 to that!
Bench: McCarthy, Morgan, Martin & Westwood
Cap Payet.
How are we all looking for wknd thinking of taking a hit for Dier have .1m in bank but Schlupp is 5m but he is going down in price tonight is it worth it ????
Morning Silvers. Not sure i’d take a hit for him to be honest mate.
Morning NIN yes I thk you right I just don’t like losing cash thanks mate.
Hello again folks, the transfer of Wilson out and Vardy in has been done. Now its time to vote on your preferred substitutes. Please pick 4 players, including 1 keeper, to sit on our bench.
Please also vote on your preferred captain choice.
Voting will run until Saturday at 09-00am (UK time).
So come on down and get voting please for your Community Team. Look up to see the team.
NZ\GP\Elle
Hello everyone the community team is all set! Good luck and thanks for voting.
GP/NZ/Elle
***FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE***
Welcome to the International Break Aftermath! And you are welcome to it 😉
The Community Team is about to get back up and running with a nice little new addition for voting.
A good friend of ours brought to our attention the website “STRAW POLL” allowing us to offer you the chance to vote by clicking your favourite choice. This also lets us tally the scores nice and quickly as well.
So looking at our team below how should we use our transfer ahead of Game-week 9?
You may vote here by name but I’d encourage you to vote on STRAW POLL here:
https://strawpoll.me/5736254
Thanks everyone.
This proposal isn’t on the poll. I think 2 transfers should be made this week for a hit. Kun obviously being 1 and one of those 3 defenders, whichever ain’t going to start.
If you believe what elle has suggested then please let us know here.
The vote will remain open until 10pm tomorrow (Thursday) to allow us tie to begin the transfer ‘in’ vote.
Good to the strawpoll up and running – it looks really helpful.
I would suggest sorting out the first tranfer (Kun > ???) and then afterwards ask an extra question, such as…
Should we:
-play AoA
-take a hit on a defender
-sit tight and think of England
Hi Los Machos
Thanks for your thoughts . As always you have a fair point. This week may be a bit tight (timescales) to have additional voting.
We did say at the start that if we hear 5 requests to play a chip we’ll put it to a vote. Eventually we’ll have to use these chips. No stampede for them yet I’m afraid.
Voted. Elleffcee’s logic is very good on the defenders-3/4*3/4*3/4 is only about 1 in 2. But doesn’t the site usually argue no hits for defenders? If it’s a hit, what about De Bruyne for Pedro? Just a thought.
KI
It’s a reasonable move. Pedro could do well though going against Villa I guess.
We need to kind of second-guess ourselves due to the limited knowledge from today’s press conferences. Unfortunately the logistics of having all injury information to hand is too much so we need to give it our best shot with the one FT.
32 votes on strawpoll and 30 are for Aguero. That’s a cut and dried move right there. Taking a hit has been mentioned by a couple but for this week at least it may be too difficult to take one and decide who else to remove.
Voted.
Cheers guys.
Thanks Andy :thumbup:
Strawpoll is simple and works great, and so far its been a unanimous decision with the votes
Gumby, anyone who doesn’t vote for Kun is stupid. i’ve suggested taking him and a defender for a hit.
haha Very true, Well I do agree to an extent, if one of those defenders doesn’t play, Martin can come on which isn’t to bad an option against Newcastle (he could likely score a hattrick against their defence at the moment, actually the way they played against City my 5 year old niece could score) the problem is I don’t see Morgan doing much if 2 of them don’t play but is it worth a hit……… Now if all 3 were ruled out its definitely worth it, who were you thinking to transfer in with the hit?
Gumby
Hope it will serve us well over the coming weeks.
Cheers.
Did someone recommend selling Sanchez on this poll?
I’ve voted but I was hoping the question was sell Aguero for who!