 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Footies is Friday. It is coming Friday after this loading screen confirmed it. We saw the car design last night, and we actually saw the cards today in FIFA with a Footies fan vote. But again, it is all confirmed, all but confirmed, that Footies is coming Friday. I wanna talk about what we learned from just yesterday and kind of deep dive a little bit further into the details and give you guys everything you need to know about what could be happening in two days or in one day with the Footies promo, with cards released back in packs. What's that gonna do to the market? What is that gonna do to SBC fodder? And what is it gonna do to the high tier players on this game? There's a lot to talk about. Let's get right into it. So, Footies, of course, has been put into this game and it is basically probably one of the last promos that we have. I don't know if they're gonna do pre-season again, but it's usually Footies is kind of carrying us towards the end of the game cycle. Now, we had the loading screen that's hopefully gonna get upgraded today on Thursday with some sort of new information on it. But this first fan vote already told us a lot about what this Footies promo is going to be about. So, position change voting. So, basically, they're giving us two cards and whoever gets more votes, so that you get a player pick, you open it up, as a lot of you already have done, you choose Carvahall or Manolis, and the winner is gonna get an even more crazy boosted item with stats specific to that position change, right? So, the interesting thing that we learned already about this is this 86 Carvahall and the 83 Manolis are not loan items when they give you the player pick. So, you actually get an 83 or an 86 item. So, that today, and even looking throughout the rest of this Footies promo makes us really think since fodder is so important and SBCs are gonna be coming out every single day like they have been, people always need SBC fodder. They're gonna be taking the highest rated players out of these fan votes, I think nine times out of 10 unless there's an insanely hyped up player that's a low rated card that everybody would really want to see get an SBC as a part of Footies, it really seems like the highest rated player is gonna win because people are just gonna choose the card that they want for fodder. So, hopefully, honestly, if EA would change these to loans, that would make for a, I guess, less, I don't know what the word would be, people would be less motivated by the actual fodder portion of the card and it would be more motivated by, oh, this guy, if he won, could be a really sick SBC. So, I kinda hope they change these to loans. Having them not as loans is nice, so you get the fodder, but I'm down for a fair vote, right? So, anyways, even though Carvajal is almost 100% gonna win this, it's rigged if he doesn't, but he has to, right? Because everybody wants an 86 rated card instead of an 83 for SBC fodder purposes, so Anolis could still get an item at the end of the campaign. So, also what we learned from this is, it's kind of like the same as last year in summer heat and even footies from two years ago in FIFA 19, the same upgrade timeframe, right? So, we had a vote on Wednesday, the SBC is gonna be released on Friday. So, probably what's gonna happen is on Thursday, we won't get a vote today, unless they're gonna do an SBC every single day, usually what they did was they would release voting and a new, the winner of the last vote that upgraded player SBC on the same day. So, Friday we would probably get another vote and an upgraded Carvajal SBC. So, that's kind of, I think, the schedule that we can start to think that we're gonna see and kind of base our, I guess, week around for these next couple weeks. Now, I don't know how long footies is gonna be, but it's probably gonna be a couple weeks, especially in the words in here, they said, the losing nominee stands a chance to return as a footies player SBC at the end of the campaign. So, seems like there's gonna be at least more than one week of this promo. So, again, we talked about the voting, right? We have that down. We know how that's gonna work after today. Now, let's talk about the rest of this, right? I'm gonna be comparing FIFA 20 Summer Heat and FIFA 19 Footies, because they're very similar, right? Basically last year, Summer Heat was Footies, just under a different name. And the biggest part about Footies and Summer Heat from last year was the best of packs. There's not gonna be brand new special cards, most likely coming into packs unless EA changes something up. It's gonna be a re-release of older Team of the Season, Foot Birthday, Future Stars, all those older cards that have already been released this year in FIFA. Maybe even the PTG and Summer Stars items could be re-released at some point. And they do this in what they call batches. They do best of batches. So basically however many weeks this is, they'll probably do one batch per week. Last year in the Summer Heat promo, we had three different batches and they were out for one week each, a piece, right? I think the same thing happened about Footies and FIFA 19 was longer. They did two weeks per batch. But again, you're gonna see a lot of market movements with this. And that is one of the major things that I wanna talk about on the game today is that you're gonna see massive fluctuations on a lot of these cards. Here's example number one. Now, albeit, when this promo dropped last year in FIFA 20 Summer Heat, when they dropped the re-release of these special cards, it was basically, it was in June, right? June, I think 14th or June 17th was the start of Summer Heat last year. So card prices were still, you know, kind of a little more expensive than what they are now. Cards are already so cheap this year inside of FIFA. I don't know if you're gonna see this big of a drop off for a lot of the cards already in this game. Think about it this year. Right now on the market in FIFA 21, team of the season Hyunmin Sun is like 650,000 coins. Last year, when he was re-released back into Pax, he was 950,000 coins. So of course, you can see what happens when these cards get added back into Pax. They definitely do drop off with the supply and probably with the panic selling of, of course, people saying, hey, this card's in Pax, he's gonna get sold off, so I'm gonna sell him. So you're gonna see a lot of price drops on some of these items that get re-released back into Pax, whether it's team of the seasons, whether it's for birthdays, whether it's Path to Glory cards, Summer Stars, all of the cards that they put back into Pax, even if it's just an informs, right? They're probably gonna include some informs in there. We'll talk about that in a second. You're definitely gonna see a lot of those cards drop off in price because people are gonna save some Pax for this end of the year time period because it's fun. It is fun to open Pax because like almost every single time you open a Pax at this end game part of the year, you're getting some sort of special card. Like that's the fun part. It's like, you know, all these special cards are in Pax, you're maybe getting some players that are higher rated because instead of their, you know, base 82 or 83 rated card being in Pax, you're pulling up Pax with three, four, five different special cards in them when you're opening 100,000 coin Pax and stuff like that. And as I'm saying this and thinking about it, it makes sense. And I've got some stuff on the side right now so I can't actually show you Pax. I got a duplicate in Boppe today from PlayerPix, which was dope. But it makes sense that EA is taking away Preview Pax because prices are so low already in this game. If they were re-releasing special cards back into FIFA with Preview Pax out, think about how easy it would be to profit if you had headliners, future stars, foot freeze, foot birthday, what if cards, if you had all these different types of promo items that were in Pax at the same time re-released, how easy it would be to make profit from buying a Pax with coins and then going and selling those cards on the market. It'd be so easy. Or if you bought the Pax with FIFA points, it'd be so easy to make coins. And I think that's why they're taking away the Preview Pax and stopping that quote unquote experiment in this game. So that's one thing I think that's gonna impact the market a lot. Again, team of the season cards, I expect to get released right away. Since team of the seasons are not the highest rated cards that we have in this game this year. We have the summer stars items and we have the path to glory items. I think that we might see team of the seasons in batch one released on Friday. So I would expect to see some of these cards drop off in price. They're already so low. Everything on the market is already so cheap. Icons are crazy cheap. I mean, it's really just a testament to how insane the past couple of weeks of content has been with PTG cards and with summer stars. These two promos right here with how cheap these guys are, like look at the insane stats in these cards and how cheap they are, right? That's really what's dragging the market down so much and making these cards already so cheap. But they're gonna drop off even more because again, panic selling and the supply of that re-release of special cards is one thing that's just, it's inevitably gonna drop some of these cards. So a couple other things that happened last year and in FIFA 19 with Footies is they had tiered engagement reward packs. We haven't had any of these in a while. It's about time they drop us a few more of these. Again, it's happened in FIFA 19 as well with reward packs. Basically, the more FIFA that you played, the higher level of pack that you get. Probably a lot of us are getting ultimate packs. So I would be expecting to see an ultimate pack and actually last year, they gave out two different tiered engagement rewards which was nice. So that was one thing, basically, you can call that free packs from EA Sports. And last year they changed up week in league rewards as well. So right now what we have in week in league rewards is Team of the Season items and we haven't had any code added yet for new week in league rewards but I would sincerely keep an eye on that this week to see if they're gonna mess with rewards. I'm really curious to see if they're gonna mess with the rewards because right now, of course, you have got the 91 plus deluxe TOTS three players. It's only Team of the Season items that are in rewards but what they did last year was they added in some of these other items that were in packs at the same time. So technically you could pack 90 plus overalls in your elite packs from Ultimate Scream, Team of the Knockout stage, Road to the Final, Future Stars and stuff like that. And I believe that even some of the player picks, any player pick packs will have a minimum of one special item from the above list of selected Foot 20 campaign items, 90 or higher. So it was all 90 or higher in red picks if you were gold two or above and it was 83 or higher if you were silver one but it was from all those different past special teams. It wasn't just Team of the Season. So again, it's gonna really depend. This promo, this footies promo is really gonna depend since we're so further along in the year than normal when this is released, it's all gonna depend on the rating of the cards that they put out. I mean, again, we've seen some 99 rated items. We've seen some insanely high rated cards with juiced up stats as a part of the Summer Stars Promo and they have to keep that hype going with footies and even with the cards that they re-released back into packs. Honestly, for me it's gotta be Team of the Season, Foot Birthday, Team of the Year, maybe some Future Stars, maybe a couple Headliners and yeah, they're gonna throw in some of the lower tier in-forms, Man of the Matches, Team of the Group Stage or whatever. They're gonna throw in some of those cards just for like, you know, making it seem like you're packing a special card all the time. There's gonna be so many special cards in packs but for the higher tier stuff, they gotta start releasing these Summer Stars, the PTGs, those have to be in like batch two and batch three because if it's just Team of the Seasons and as the highest echelon of cards are getting re-released, that's gonna be an L, in my opinion, so we'll see what they do with that but that's, again, I really think those special cards being released back into packs is one of the biggest things. I'm gonna talk about that a lot over the next couple of days but that's kinda what footies is, right? Now there's a couple other things. There's gonna be objectives, right? Now last year you guys might remember they had a Summer Heat objective for a Furland Mendy which was kinda like the Academy, Future Stars Academy objectives that we have had before in FIFA as well where you would work towards like an 85 version of Mendy, then you would do an 87, then an 89 and then you got like the 92 or the 93 version so hopefully we have something along those lines this year. Last year those were called Summer Showdown Special Items, or sorry, no, those were called Summer Heat Fan Favorites. Summer Showdown Special Items were basically the first time we actually had Showdown cards which we, of course, have had this year in FIFA 21 all year so we will see what the content is. Again, what's really gonna make this market interesting is how good the cards are that they release like the car of a haul, how big of a juice are they gonna give that item? Now also with the re-release of special cards and since this SBC or since this promo is very SBC based, right? We saw in here the winners of these nominees it's gonna get an SBC, right? We're probably gonna have more player SBCs. We're gonna have more icon SBCs. We're gonna have more of like 87 times three like TOTS upgrade packs that we had last year that came out during Summer Heat like an 89 plus TOTS upgrade, 90 plus team of the season up, probably player picks coming out like team of the season, PTG or Summer Stars player picks that type of stuff is probably gonna be coming out during this promo. Last year in FIFA 20, SBC fodder went nuts. Take a look at this 84 rated Surge Navry. A lot of cards had spikes like this and it's also helped like this Surge Navry went out of packs because he had a couple of different special cards like I think his end form was in packs then maybe, you know, his Champions League man of the match item was in packs but take a look at this card. Last year, Summer Heat started on June 17th or 19th or something, yeah, I think it was June 19th. He was 9K on June 19th. Instantly he goes out of packs but there's a lot of SBC demand and some of these cards went bonkers. They went so high up in price. Fodder absolutely skyed last year. Now again, this year, SBC fodder is already up a little bit. You're looking at 84s that are like 8 to 9,000 coins but that's really not that high in the grand scheme of things. Take a look at this Jimenez card, right? 18,000 coin price cap, he's 9,000 coins at the moment. He was 18,000 coins at his peak earlier this year in March, even about a couple of weeks ago he was 13,000 coins. Honestly, today it rewards, if you guys are watching this, it's Thursday rewards day, maybe even tomorrow on Friday. If they were to do some sort of like two for one packs that would supply the market, I'm not expecting that at all. I'm just saying that if that sort of thing does happen or even if the content on Friday is a little bit lackluster for the first part of footies, you might see some of this 84, 85s, like 83s and maybe even 86s as well drop off a little bit as the market with special cards that are in packs are getting supplied, pushing some of that higher rated fodder down. The lower rated fodder goes crazy during the footies promo. So again, I would really start to keep, and I think 84 is the best. I really like 84s because people have so many high rated cards and they're gonna be packing stuff from the special cards that are in packs. Like these Tots items, you can see here Community Tots, CSL, Aeridivisi, Foot Birthday. This was released two last year of Summer Heat. Future Stars items, La Liga team in the seasons. So I mean, really, really hoping that this stuff comes out and they do big cards right away from the drop. But again, fodder wise, you're gonna see a lot of this stuff go up, I think. But again, that all depends on the quality, the quality of the SBC content. If the cards that they're dropping, like Carvajal, if there's not really any other content on Friday and there's not a lot going on and the upgrade isn't that good, if Carvajal is not at least like 93 or 94 rated and like weak foot skill move upgrades, it's probably not gonna be as hype. Again, we just came off of a hugely insane hype week of two Summer Stars insane teams and with really good SBC content with skill move upgrades with plus 29 individual skill boosts for this Benucci card that came out yesterday and this card's 130K to do on the market. So there's just a ton of potential for this footies promo and of course tons of potential on the market for it as well. So again, I talked a lot about today, it's basically we know it's gonna be an SBC based promo with those footy cards with the votes that we had. We covered the special cards getting re-released back into packs and of course the rewards packs that we should be seeing and of hopefully some objective content as well. Maybe some sort of like fan favorites that they'll re-release. Probably some SBCs from earlier this year we could see re-released as well tomorrow. Like I keep saying full birthday Renato Sanchez or maybe Flashback Marcello, re-release SBCs that were maybe expensive earlier on that are still pretty big names, fan favorite items they re-release those at a cheaper price. That's the kind of stuff that we can be looking forward to tomorrow in this game. Now also I wanna take a look at something that happened just a little bit ago. We're gonna transition and instead of looking at tomorrow and Friday, look at today on Thursday for just a little bit at the end of this video. Team two, Summer Stars Guaranteed Pack was just added to the code tonight. Last week they required what was it like an 85 or an 86 rated squad for team one. Now team two is so much cheaper than team one across the board. Yes, you have Neymar in there. Yes, you have Sterling. But then after that, your next most expensive card is 385K with Kiesa and I really hope that they lower the requirement for this because these cards are so cheap with the supply they've had on the market this week. I do think that today at weak only rewards, some of your 84s, 85s and 86s, they could go up a little bit with that Summer Stars Guaranteed last week. They went up as well on the market. So I'd be keeping a close eye on some of that. But everybody's gonna do this SBC today. I'm saving that duplicate in Bopay to basically put in this squad today on Thursday. Everybody's gonna try to get their Neymar, their Sterling, maybe their Gomez or Kiesa. But that is an SBC pack code that we did see tonight. I think that today on Thursday, if you wanna buy any of these items, depending, I don't think they're gonna re-release any Summer Stars that just went out of packs. I would say it's really doubtful that any of these Summer Stars items would get re-released on Friday as a part of Footies. So in my opinion, some of these cards might be good pickups for out of packs investments, right? I really like Kiesa with the five star skills and with the Italian hype that is going on with Kialini being released. Of course, with the Bonucci SBC yesterday, just a lot of Italian hype, of course, with that nation winning the Euros as well. I think this Harry Kane card is really, really cheap for a four star, four star. I think Gomez is cheap with the Acuna hype, with the Parades hype, with those upgrades that they had. I think Sterling is cheap. I think a lot of these cards that are in this team are very, very cheap. And if they don't get re-released back into packs, and I just have a little bit of a feeling that the Footies promo might be a slight bit underwhelming, just a slight bit, just a slight bit, at least on Friday, we'll have to see what happens then. But I think that some of these cards could be due for a rise out of packs. So kind of take an eye on that or keep an eye out for that today. Also last day for player picks, I've really slowed down on hitting the player picks because they have just been bad. They've been so bad. And I've actually resorted to trading a little bit. Like I haven't traded in a hot minute. And I've kind of started looking at some of these items, some of these icons, just because they get pretty rare and they fluctuate a lot, maybe try to flip some of these today after rewards. I mean, this real Ferdinand was down. Is he 460? Okay, there's an undercut at 430. He's like 450,000 coins though at the moment. He was 400K flat earlier. This push guest was 500. He's still about 530. I'm still looking at a lot of deals on these cards because they move around a lot on the market. And, you know, they're very, very, very possible to flip. So I'm keeping an eye on a lot of these cards just because I know there's gonna be some fluctuations and especially open bids. I'm gonna try to catch this Garenja here on an open bid because that looks like a pretty good deal. In my opinion, if we can snag that. So I'm just trying to look at the market and trade and make a few more coins because I know there's gonna be a lot of content coming out with footies that I wanna get involved in. So more talk about footies today. Hopefully that clears it up about what the promo should be and what we should be seeing. Again, it's kind of confusing to kind of wrap your mind around a little bit with the footies promo, with the upgrades and stuff like that. So we'll try to explain it the best we can as we get more information. Hopefully we do get some more information today on Thursday about the footies promo and maybe what we could be seeing tomorrow on Friday. So that's the video for today, boys. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and of course, subscribe if you are new. It's been Nathan Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace. Out.