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 UPDATE *
Morning everyone.
Please see the attached score for this week.
Disappointing from Gomis and Pelle (C) in attack led us to just above average score but a drop in the overall rankings.
Next week’s vote will being later.
GP / NZ / ELL
Well done lads, not a disaster by any stretch of the imagination. Consistent performance and one that many owuld be envious of. Keep it going, patience is key.
Jeez I talk a good game.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
We are now looking for your thoughts on how or if the Community Team should use its free transfer ahead of GW10.
Team is attached and would appreciate your votes via a simple ‘click’ at strawpoll.
strawpoll.me/5787644
Vote will stay open for 2 days. Thank you.
GP / NZ / ELL
Link:
http://strawpoll.me/5787644
Hit
Agree Mitro.
And the 2 idiots to go are Pedro and Gomis for me. Cue a hatty for Gomis up at Vanilla. :shake:
GP,
I slow with mental arithmetic. Could we get a periodic listing of our team’s value? It helps me think about reasonable substitutes (knowing, I think, that we’ll be looking at bringing Kun back, sooner or later).
Thanks much for the ongoing effort.
Hello guys,
Long time reader, but don’t really post. Cracking site and great articles. Extremely helpful.
Sell Gomis and leave at that. That panther celebration thing is cringe-worthy. It only came about as he went to celebrate by sliding on his knees, got caught by friction, toppled forward and ‘saved’ himself by turning it into a panther or whatever it is.
If Pedro doesn’t do the biz against the Villains this week,….P45 next FT…..
Hi there geordie, many thanks for the comment, much appreciated.
geordieNdog
Echoing inittowinit, I’d like to thank you to for that vote.
Hope to see you around here more often mate.
First time a player has been voted out for his celebration but the vote stands
I was thanking him for his kind words not the vote. Go get your own compliments
:whatever:
Gallant,
Voted out because of his celebration Haha. Reading the post back, it wasn’t meant to come across like that….maybe there’s a ‘thing’ to be had here moving forward? How about looks? Next week, “player voted out because he has a face like a bag of chisels”
Anyway, we all know I voted Gomis out because he quite frankly couldn’t score in a bed of fanny’s at the moment.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
We are looking for your thoughts on how or if the Community Team should use its free transfer ahead of GW10.
Team is attached and would appreciate your votes via a simple ‘click’ at strawpoll.
http://strawpoll.me/5787644
Vote will remain open until tomorrow afternoon. Lets’ hear ya!
GP / NZ / ELL
Squad
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
We are looking for your thoughts on how or if the Community Team should use its free transfer ahead of GW10.
Team is attached and would appreciate your votes via a simple ‘click’ at strawpoll.
http://strawpoll.me/5787644
GP / NZ / ELL
done GP..
Thanks Constantine.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
We are looking for your thoughts on how or if the Community Team should use its free transfer ahead of GW10.
Team is attached and would appreciate your votes via a simple ‘click’ at strawpoll.
http://strawpoll.me/5787644
GP / NZ / ELL