 Hey guys, just Nate, A.K.A. the photo accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today we're gonna be looking at the official FIFA 23 team of the year, and I'm gonna be giving you guys some price predictions as to how much I think this team of the year will cost on day one when they're released in packs and then towards the end when the whole team is in packs and their prices are a lot cheaper. I'm gonna give you two price points for every single player in the team, and of course we have to talk about how this team of the year might be the cheapest team of the year that we have ever seen based on the official ratings that were just dropped and just how the market is these days at FIFA. It might be one of the most affordable team of the years ever. We're also gonna look at the honorable mentions and some potential guys that could be in the 12th man vote and shout out some price predictions for those as well. Basically what I wanna do this video is help you figure out an idea of how much you might need to spend to afford a team of the year card of your liking. So without further ado, if you're excited for it, hit the thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. This is gonna be a short one. So buckle in and we just got these ratings posted. Literally like 20 minutes ago EA posted on their website the official ratings for the team of the year and what's the surprise? Again, the ratings are low. This is the lowest rated team of the year I think we've ever had. Only one 98 rated card and that is messy. We have a couple 97s and then after that some 96s and some 95s and a couple 94s. It's just not like the old days where a team of the years were 98, 99 through almost the whole entire squad. We missed those days for sure. But nonetheless, these cards are gonna be juiced. They're gonna be very hype and a lot of people like myself included are going to want to pack them. They're also gonna be pretty expensive even though we're saying the cheapest team of the year ever, the whole market is so much cheaper than it was in previous FIFAs. So let's start at the top, the attack. Let's start at the top and go through some of these cards. First of all, number 97 Mbappe, how much do I think this Mbappe is gonna cost? If we look back at last year in FIFA 22, his team of the year card was 97 rated as well and it started out at a crazy price of 8 million coins with Mbappe being so overpowered last year. He's probably just overpowered this year in terms of a comparison. I think that Mbappe's card this year is probably gonna be around the same amount. He already has a promo card that is 4.5 mil, a 2.7 mil promo card. I would imagine this Mbappe is gonna be somewhere around that 7.5 to 8 million coin range but as he drops down and his impacts for the next week, I do expect the Mbappe this year to probably get down just like last year into the 6 million coin range. He is absolutely gonna be the most expensive card in team of the year. Now, what could make him even more expensive is if they give out some extra week foot boosts, right? If they do a five star, five star Mbappe, we're talking maybe a nine mil card, seriously, that much more for that extra week foot. Guys, remember the foot birthday Mbappe a couple of years ago? That card was so overpowered. Just imagine a 97 Mbappe with a five star week foot. That would be absolutely nuts and that would make his price be a lot more expensive, I think. So I'm gonna guess between seven and a half to eight and then all the way down to about six. Let's move on through the attack, Benzema. Speaking of week foot or skill move upgrades, that's huge for Benzema's card as well. Of course, we currently have a Benzema card in the game that is a 92 rated winter wild cards with five star skill moves. I don't imagine that they will give the team of the year Benzema five star skill moves, but I could imagine them giving a five star week foot to this card. He's 97 rated, it's gonna be, of course, a very hyped card that a lot of people would like to use. Probably a big pace boost, hopefully on his card too. Maybe we get towards 90 pace and that five star week foot would be fantastic. So I'm gonna go at the price for Benzema around about two and a half million coins to start off with and then probably dipping below two mil or staying right around two million coins once the full team is in packs. I feel like it's a pretty good comparison to the Lewandowski that we had last year, but Lewandowski I think was cheaper because he didn't have as hype or as good of a links. And since there are so many other Real Madrid players in team of the year and in FIFA that are just really, really hype and Real Madrid just brings a lot of hype in a big community of fans that wanna use a Benzema card as well with the France links that Benzema has. I feel like he's gonna have more hype than Lewandowski did last year. I think he still will maintain a price probably around two mil. Maybe a little bit less, but around two million coins seems right for him, especially if they gave him a five star weak foot as well. Of course, if they give him skills and a weak foot, we could be talking more. If they don't, we could be talking less. Just kind of depends on what the final card is that we will see tomorrow. Let's go to 98 Messi. Just like we've seen in previous years, 98 Messi, literally the exact same card that we had last year was 98. I don't know if they're gonna mess with the work rates. That's my biggest thing with this card. Messi's base work rates this year are low, low. I really hope that they give Messi high, low, like they did with the 94 rated card. Last year he was 3.4 mil, started off at about four to five million coins though. I think that Messi this year is gonna be a little bit cheaper just because the whole market's a bit cheaper. And of course, the Messi card this year in FIFA just doesn't seem to be as insane in terms of the meta. So I'm gonna go at the Messi price of somewhere from starting around four, four million coins and maybe even being one of the cheapest team of the year, Messi's we've ever seen. I mean, you remember the olden days of Messi being at his cheapest for 4.2 million coins when he had a 99 rated card, two years in a row. This is when Team of the Year was at its peak, honestly guys. Messi, 99 rated with 97 pace, even with the medium, medium work rates then, like absolutely insane, insane cards and this is what we have now, right? The 98 rated not as big of a stat boost. I'm thinking Messi this year is gonna be somewhere around the three to three and a half million coin range in that full team aspect but starting off around four million coins. Let's go to the midfield, right? A lot of really interesting players in here. Jude Bellingham won that a lot of people would like to get in their squad. I think Jude Bellingham is going to be the second cheapest midfielder. I think Modric will actually be cheaper than Jude but that's because I hope they give Jude a really, really nice boost. Now we have a Jude Bellingham card this year of course. This is his first team of the year and we don't know the stats of course but he's getting a plus five boost over his phenoms card so we could suggest that this is maybe gonna be a plus five, plus six in all different stat categories so he is gonna be teetering on the edge of being club 90. He's gonna be one of the best complete midfielders in this game, probably like 88 pace, 88 shot and then 90 plus everywhere else. If they give him 90 pace and 90 shooting this Bellingham could be very expensive but my price prediction for this card since it's a bit more difficult to link him in terms of the leagues. I'm gonna guess this Jude Bellingham still is gonna start off around maybe 1.7 to 2 million coins but then he's gonna drop off to be a million coins flat maybe even a little bit below a million coins if the juice isn't that big but somewhere around like the one million coin range maybe 1.2 but starting off maybe around like 2 million and then dropping down from there. I just think there's gonna be a lot of hype with Jude getting a team of the year and I mean this phenoms card for a long time was like 600K in early December. So he's been 500K since then. I would imagine that his price of his team of the year card would double that and maybe then some of course with the stat boost that he could have. Let's move on, right? Modric is another really big name that a lot of people are excited to see in this team of the year promo. 96 rated for Modric of course just like we have great memories of the Messi cards and 99 rated Messi's from years past. We have had some really insane Modric cards in the past couple of years in team of the year specifically the 99 Modric and even the 96 Modric in FIFA 18 was really good but he's nowhere near gonna be this expensive from his Ballon d'Or year when he was 3 million coins. I'm looking more towards the random range on Modric somewhere around the one million coin range and again just like Jude Bellingham maybe starting off a bit more expensive it depends on the stat boost but probably teetering around that 1.5 mil range. I mean honestly for a start price 1.5 mil but then maybe going under a million coins I think Jude's gonna be more expensive than Modric even though his rating is a bit lower I think that Modric card might just be a little bit less desirable to some unless they give him some big boost or skill move upgrade or something like that but I think Modric is gonna end up being around a million coins maybe a little bit under maybe even like 800K we'll have to see he might be our cheapest midfielder this year and then De Bruyne, right? De Bruyne's team of the year cards they're always saucy. I mean last year he had a really really nice team of the year as well it was club 80 with the 80 defense it was a really really big boosted card he started off around 2.4 drop down below to kinda the 1.85 range after that with a KDB this year being 97 I think that could mean maybe even a higher juice than this card that he had last year I'm hoping that Kevin De Bruyne this year is somewhere around the two million coin range even with the market being a bit cheaper I know Kevin De Bruyne's got the really awesome 99 physical Winter Wild Cards item hopefully they give a big pace boost on that keep the physical not 99 but keep it pretty high keep the passing and dribbling stats of course really high as you'd expect I'm gonna say Kevin De Bruyne this year somewhere around about two million coins to start off but then dropping to about 1.5 while he is in packs now let's get on to probably the cheapest part of the team in the defense and we're gonna start with left back Teo Hernandez there's a lot of hype around Teo Hernandez's special cards this year he's got the team in the tournament card that is 450,000 coins after it was 600K a couple of weeks ago and that makes me think that Teo is gonna be the most expensive of the two in terms of the outside backs I think Akimi is gonna be cheaper than him and since this is Teo's first team of the year I'm gonna say Teo's gonna start off at about 1.2 to 1.3 million coins I think he's gonna end up going under a mill probably around like the eight to 900K range but then he might even rise up after he's out of packs just because that is gonna be one of the best left backs in the game, probably the best left back in the game at least for the foreseeable future and I think people would be very willing to pay around a million coins maybe 800, 900,000 coins for that we'll go to the right side we'll look at Akimi of course we can take a look at his card last year I absolutely loved using this card 93 rated last year, 94 rated this year I really hope he gets the 80 shooting again hope he gets all 90s in the dribbling and defense categories of course we already have a Phenom, Sakimi multiple of these guys that are getting into team of the year we have Phenoms for it, right? This card was 368K at the time of this recording he was 460 at his peak and of course he's dropped down since then but especially with the Ramos Flashback SBC there to consider for this Akimi card and of course you got a lot of PSG hype I could imagine this Akimi being around the same prices last year even with the cheaper market, right? I do believe Akimi will be somewhere around the 550 to 600,000 coin range like he was last year probably in the what you would call the peak or the lowest point, not the peak at all like the lowest point for his price last year was 650 I think even though he's higher rated the market being cheaper this year I think he'll be about 550 this year 650 last year as you can see so I'm saying 550K for that low price for Akimi and his starting price probably around like a million coins maybe 900K as people pack that card probably going to be, Akimi and Courtois would be the most commonly packed team of the years out of this promo team let's go to the two center backs cause they are pretty massive VVD 96 rated of course has not had a team of the year in the past couple of years he's already had a really, really big World Cup Stories card this year with a nice juice, nice boost this is a card that people say is the best center back in the game he's 890K he was just over a million coins recently he was even over 1.4 million coins earlier on in December before he was re-released back in packs but with that being in mind and with this van dyke hopefully returning to the VVD team of the year days of old with high 80s pace I mean FIFA 20 we had 88 pace we had 85 in FIFA 21 in FIFA 19 he had 84 so since this card already has 83 fingers crossed that this van dyke with a plus four overall upgrade over this card would potentially have like 86 pace maybe 87 pace and I think that would be a shout for probably the best center back in the game and I think this van dyke card will end up costing and showing that price right especially with the pro hype that's gonna be there for this VVD the team of the year VVD that we had in years past were really, really expensive when he had a 99 rated card he was still 3 million coins now again different year different market of course but I think this VVD this year is gonna be the most expensive defender he's gonna be somewhere around the range of a start price of two to 2.2 million coins and then dropping off while he's in packs to about 1.7 and then maybe rising up after that again I really think that some of these defenders are gonna be elite enough that they will eventually rise up out of packs maybe not for a long time but for a little bit so van dyke 2.2 star price maybe dropping down to about 1.7, 1.8 just because he's gonna be so overpowered the other center back in here is a new one Edgar Militow first team of the year for him of course there's gonna be a lot of hype for his card as well again a lot of Madrid hype here Militow, Benzema maybe some other Madrid cards and honorable mentions or stuff like that maybe in the 12 man voting which we'll get to in a second as well Militow if I had to guess he's pretty comparable to the Marquinhos of last year but he's just not right it's also a completely different card last year Marquinhos was started off at about 2.5 went down to about 1.5 million coins I think that Militow is gonna start off cheaper because he's a little bit lower rated and I think he's just gonna get packed a bit more than Marquinhos his base card is lower right Militow 84 base Marquinhos is like an 88 base so I would assume that Militow is gonna start around 1.7 to 2 million coins and then end up dropping to about 1.3 it does depend on the stats though because if this Militow has like 92 pace or you know like above 90 pace and not just above but like way above 90 pace it'll be an absolutely massive card we're getting a plus six upgrade he's got 87 pace he could have 93, 94 pace on this card and that would be insane I think he will be very, very hyped and very, very in demand so I'm gonna say around 1.3 to 1.4 at his lowest point but I could see this card even being more expensive if the hype is there and then finally in net Courtois goalkeepers are always cheap right we've seen that the past couple of years Don Ruma last year with all the PSG hype and links that were in the team I mean he went down to about 220,000 coins while he was in packs and I think that Courtois is gonna be in that same threshold maybe starting off at about 500K but then dropping down to about 250, maybe 300,000 coins with all the Real Madrid links that are out there again a lot of hype but again guys just the bottom line with this team is it's not insanely hyped because the ratings are just not what they used to be and especially if you played FIFA in the old days or not even the old days like three or four years ago you know that team of the year is a lot different now than it used to be still great card, still amazing I hope EA threw out some skill move, week foot boost in there that would absolutely help the cause as well now I wanna talk through a couple more things because we do have some leaks about the 12th man vote and I wanna put some cards and show some cards to you about the 12th man in team of the year last year we had Ronaldo this year we have Valverde, Holland and Cancelo so it is going to be a vote obviously and this one's kind of tough because a lot of people really wanted Valverde to be in team of the year as a midfielder but I really feel like Holland in this particular vote has the biggest chance to win just because of the name of Erling Holland because of the amount of votes that he's gonna get being a Premier League card I know we have Cancelo in here as well but let's be honest guys when is a defender gonna win out of these conditions, right? I feel like it's Valverde or Holland but I really feel like Holland might end up being that guy and it's tough when you think about Erling Holland team of the year card we've got the ones to watch which is a 90 rated card it's 800,000 coins I mean, this guy's been 2 million coins from earlier in the year he was 1.3 most recently in December I feel like Erling Holland team of the year is probably gonna be around 94 or 95 rated if he gets a card and with that rating being there I do believe that he could be somewhere around that 1.5 to 2 million coin price range the 12th man is always a little bit more rare too, right? Cause it doesn't get that first session in packs of course, Ronaldo's 12th man card last year was very, very expensive it was 6.9 million coins and nobody is gonna be up there except for Mbappe in this year's range but if I had to guess Erling Holland somewhere around I don't even know man maybe starting off with 2 million coins maybe getting down to like the 1.5 range but that would be a card that would probably be pretty disgusting in a good way on this game now I do have some graphics that I wanna show you and we had a whole thing planned out shout out to Yaz who made these graphics I'll put his link down below in the description of this video we had a whole thing planned out where we're gonna do nominees and predictions and I didn't get around to this until too late and EA posted the ratings officially so some of these of course are not gonna be nominees but big shout out to him for making these graphics that look absolutely unbelievable Fede Valverde is in the vote for 12th man so he will most likely not get a nominee card unless EA say hey we're gonna put some of the nominees that don't win in the votes like either Cancelo or Valverde into a nominee or honorable mention type card scenario, right? Lewandowski, Mane definitely players that could have had really high vote tallies that could get into the honorable mentions or team of your nominees second week, right? We imagine that these cards will be dropped the second week after the full team of the year is in packs Lewandowski of course would not be as juice as his card was last year that card to me looks somewhere around like a 500K card doesn't look that expensive to me but again a small boost smaller boost in these team of their honorable mentions Mane would probably be somewhere around like 700K to my liking just a plus one over his ones to watch and we can talk about Fede Valverde as well because if he were to win that 12th man award he would probably get a really juiced card and that one would be pretty expensive I would say a Fede Valverde team of the year 12th man would be around a million coins but the less juiced honorable mention that Valverde card would most likely be I think about 750 or maybe even 600K depending on how the stat boost look a couple more honorable mentions that could be in that didn't make the final squad Marquinhos if we get another Brazilian center back Tamori could be an absolutely insane card I know we just had the Winter Wild Cards but you never know how EA is gonna work in honorable mentions or nominee system I would say Tamori somewhere around 750K Marquinhos somewhere around 650K and I really hope we get a Cancelo card whether it's an honorable mention or if he somehow miraculously wins the 12th man vote which is probably not gonna happen I do believe that this Cancelo will be around 500K if we get a card like that so it's just tricky right now guys because the market is of course where it is this year it's a lot lower this year as you guys know prices are just a lot lower on all different aspects as I'm searching up Messi's card here like a card like this Messi I'm looking for the team in the tournament one I mean this guy was 2 million coins right after the World Cup he's 1.7 mil right now he's got the work rate change the World Cup trophy you guys know how cheap the market is like Gold Ronaldo and Gold Messi have basically been fodder for like a month now and we're in January so I just believe that this year with the way everything looks the team of the year is gonna be one of the most affordable ever not saying it's gonna be cheap because these are still we're talking high 90 rated cards we're talking big names like Mbappe, Messi, Benza and all that stuff but I just feel like with the way the market is and those prices that we just talked about prices will be cheaper than last year and I think we will see the cheapest team of the year ever so hopefully this video helps you out in determining maybe how many coins you might need to attain one of these team of the year cards best of luck opening packs during this period and if you have any comments drop them down below if you have any questions drop them down below but of course leave a like if you enjoyed and subscribe to the channel if you're new it has been Nathan Fodaccount and I'll catch you guys later peace out.