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 *
This is a tight one this week so we need as many votes as possible.
Who do we replace Bafetimbi Gomis with?
http://strawpoll.me/5856012
Cheers guys. Let’s vote!
GP / NZ / ELL
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
Evening all. Two hours to go in the vote and just THREE votes seperate THREE players.
Wow. Huge this. Let’s hear your votes if you haven’t done so. Could be critical to our transfer.
Who do we replace Bafetimbi Gomis with?
http://strawpoll.me/5856012
GP / NZ / ELL
Come and vote everyone. You really can make a massive difference this week!
Close at the top eh guys
Unbelievably tight, Dreamers . . . But it’s brilliant
I’ve just voted for Bony!
Thanks for the vote smithy.
Could count massively.
GP I’ve noticed you have been banging the Kane drum quite a bit this week! I’m going to bring in Bony I think, hope I’m right!
Smithy
It’s just who I personally fancy for my team.
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE *
25 minutes to go!
Who do we replace Bafetimbi Gomis with?
http://strawpoll.me/5856012
GP / NZ / ELL
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TRANSFER VOTE RESULT *
That was a close one. THE closest. Phew
Replacing Bafetimbi Gomis received 127 votes.
Wilfried Bony 35 votes
Harry Kane 31 votes
Romelu Lukaku 30 votes
Others 8 votes
Manchester City’s Wilfried Bony comes in to the Community Team.
We will vote on Game-week 11 team and captain beginning tomorrow.
Thanks all for the wonderful vote.
GP / NZ / ELL
I just got my vote in in the nick of time
MattX
Pleased to hear that mate – you’ve had ample warning this week as well 😉
* FF247 COMMUNITY TEAM TEAM SELECTION *
Morning!
Time has now come to vote for our line-up and captain for Game-week 11.
Please vote for who you would place ON THE BENCH from our squad using this link:
http://strawpoll.me/5871681
And who do you think should be our captain for the week? Vote for this here:
http://strawpoll.me/5871686
You may wish to wait until you’ve heard news from the managers at their press conferences and of course FF247 will be first with a complete round up of all the injury and fitness news later today.
Vote will open until tomorrow morning shortly before the deadline.
GP / NZ / ELL
My vote is in…..thanks GP, top stuff
Thanks for voting Cookie . . :smiling:
Wsssup? I think Naughton will do well……
Cookie,
#calledit
Bry will be after you GP!!!
He’s never on here :winktongue:
#called it
Done. Cheers lads and good luck to the team for this week :thumbup:
Nice NiN
Cheers for that.
Just spotted the vote, hope I caught it in time. This crowd-sourced team selection is a fascinating experiment. Really enjoying seeing how it’s going.