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….
***FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE***
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.
sell aguero & westwood , buy de bruyne & pelle
Thanks yellowkanoha.
Although we only look for who to sell at this point. Aguero seems obvious.
Yellow, i like that one, but with a front 8 like that we would have to play AOA. I think at least 2 defenders will play.
*FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE*
Thank you for voting here, twitter and on strawpoll.
Delighted to announce that strawpoll in it’s debut for us took 32 votes which isn’t bad at all considering the short period for voting. Speaking of which, we are running tight this week with timescales and therefore the next vote will close 1 hour after tomorrow’s press conferences (when things should be clearer and allow us to pick our team with all the injury news to hand).
SERGIO AGUERO unsurprisingly was far and away the ‘winner’ of this vote and therefore we need to find a replacement.
Please use this link to check the selections and vote: http://strawpoll.me/5743384
The current team is below (and money is no restriction obviously).
Team
Done – and then “x’ed” out
forgot to finish the sentence
Done and then “x’ed” out of the whole bloody site
Thanks Dreamers
Grear stuff with the strawpoll! Thanks to who suggested that.
If it matters, I think we shouldnt take a hit on a defender and otherwise hope for 3 out of those 5 make it. I reckon they will all play so no problems there.
Cheers (and we need KDB quickly!!)
DMC
Thank you for that mate. Yeah there will be no hit this week due to logistical issues. They will be problematic at the best of times but we’ll find a way.
Voted, cheers guys, Pelle all the way.
GP,
Are we too short of time to consider a hit?
KI
This week yes. I will add in an option for next week and if it is popular we’ll see if we can accommodate. Time is very tight on a good week.
Pull your finger out GP 😉
Yeah whatevs Init. :yawn:
I DEMAND a ‘yawn’ emoji.
Rich?
*FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE*
LAST CHANCE – 30 minutes to close.
Thank you for voting here, twitter and on strawpoll. 75 votes so far – phenomenal response. :thumbup:
Please use this link to check the selections and vote: http://strawpoll.me/5743384
The current team is below (and money is no restriction obviously).
Current squad:
Kun to Costa and hmmmm a defender to Azpi.
Thank you Raz.
Result coming soon . . .
Hey Gallant, how’s it going? Not sure if I made the deadline or not but I threw another vote in. And I’ve been out of the loop for a bit on the community team so I’m not sure how new this voting poll set-up is, but I really liked it. Nice job gentlemen!
*FF247 TEAM VOTE*
We received an amazing 87 votes via strawpoll taking the complete total from the boards and twitter to over 95 in voting for our Sergio Aguero replacement.
The winner with the 41 votes is Southampton’s GRAZIANO PELLE.
Now after studying our side in the attachment below, please vote for your substitute players (therefore giving us our playing eleven this week) and your choice of captain.
Please pick four players including a goalkeeper at: strawpoll.me/5748521
Then pick your captain at: strawpoll.me/5748548
Let’s keep this incredible turn out of votes going everyone. VOTING JUST COULDN’T BE ANY EASIER! We’ll close the vote tomorrow at 11am.
GP / NZ / ELL
Team: