 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have a confirmed date for Team of the Year from EA Sports. It is coming on Friday, the 22nd on Friday. Team of the Year is going to be here. So we're gonna talk about today in Team of the Year preparation video number two out of pack special cards and icons. Cause I wanna take a look at how this market's gonna be affected over the next few days. And even into next week when Team of the Year starts, when could we see a time to buy some of these cards and what types of cards could rebound after Team of the Year, which cards are gonna go down after Team of the Year and icons especially. We're in a very interesting scenario because icon moments are only a month away. So after Team of the Year is over, yes you might see a rebound on some icons but you might see that dip very soon when icon moments come out in February. So let's show you guys the official date for Team of the Year was announced here on the EA FIFA 21 Team of the Year website. The file Team of the Year will be announced on January 22nd and obviously in on Instagram there was like a countdown. So it's actually gonna be announced pre 6 p.m. UK on Friday. It's gonna be announced early and then they said when special Team of the Year player items featuring some of the highest ratings of the season will be released in foot 21. So they're announcing it before 6 p.m. They're announcing the full 11 of players, right? But they're releasing special Team of the Year players impacts on that 22nd date as well. So I think we're getting cards impacts on Friday. If I read this correctly, we're getting the announcement and then cards and packs. Now it would be a super EA thing to do and also kind of correspond with how they've run Team of the Year in the past to only put either the defenders and the goalkeeper impacts or just the attackers impacts for the first couple of days. I think that EA instead of starting Team of the Year on Monday this year, realized they could start it on a Friday, get everybody to open their saved up packs on a Friday with lighting rounds with only a few cards and packs and drag this whole Team of the Year thing out instead of just being one week. I think they're thinking, hey, we can drag it out for an entire week plus a little bit extra. So that's why I think they're starting it on a Friday and I think they realize they make more money on a Friday's promos anyway. But this is the first time Team of the Year will have ever started on a Friday. It's always started on a Monday, which is very, very interesting. So how is the market reacting right now? Actually, to be honest with you, there's not really a ton that's happening. A lot of prices are still kind of chilling around the same mark. If we head over to Footbin and take a look at the popular page, which is one of my favorite things to do, is just to take a rundown of where cards are at in this game. And Bop, it was 825 yesterday, right? And Amar was 640, 650K. So some of these cards have maybe bounced back a tiny bit, but I do not think this is a time that you want to buy just yet because as we're gonna take a look at some graphs and just talk about stuff today, it doesn't seem to me that it's got low enough yet. I don't think we've had panic. We've only had a sell-off. So I wanna continue to talk about that a little bit, specifically with the out-of-packs cards in this game featuring Road to the Finals, Freeze, Team of the Group stage, Record Breakers, all that stuff. And Icons. I'm gonna talk about out-of-packs specials and Icons because I know a lot of you guys wanna buy them for your team or you want to make an investment on a player you think will rise after Team of the Year, which both of these types of cards, out-of-packs specials and Icons should be rising post-Team of the Year, right? So let's look at last year in FIFA 20 and talk about what happened. I'm gonna talk about out-of-packs specials first and then we'll go to Icons because the one thing that I think a lot of people wanna get in their teams is these out-of-packs special cards, right? Whether it's Team of the Group stages or whether it's Road to the Finals, whether it's just in-forms from a previous Team of the Weeks that were for Team of the Year. One thing, if we take a look at this last year, right, we had Ultimate Scream, Road to the Final and then Team of the Group stage and that was it before Team of the Year. There was only end-of-ones to watch. So four promos before Team of the Year last year in FIFA 20. Look at how many we have this year, right? We have got Headliners. We have had Road to the Final three times. We've got Freeze. We have Team of the Group stage, Record Breakers and Rule Breakers. So instead of just four promo teams, we have six and also we have multiple of those six promos, right? Three Road to the Final teams and multiple Headliners teams as well and multiple Rule Breaker teams. So there's even more out-of-packs specials on the market this year that we can see rise post-Team of the Year. The important thing is gonna be finding your spots and finding the ones that are gonna have the best return on your investment if you're looking to buy a card purely for investment purposes. So we're gonna talk about that here in a second but also if you just wanna buy it for your team that it's gonna be a great time to do that as well. If you're not worried about how much Road to the Final Rebitch will rise out of packs, you just want them for your team, well, this is gonna be a great time to buy them as well. So let's take a look back at FIFA 20 again and look at some of these cards, right? Hyunmin Sun, plenty of special cards last year inside of FIFA 21, FIFA 20, right? This guy dropped, obviously, when they dropped Team of the Year nominees some of them from 580K down to 446,000 coins and then rebounded in the weeks after up about 130K to 580,000 coins. So a nice rebound on a card like Sun and if I would go through here and show you all of these out-of-packs special cards, like, you know, not a lot of them, well, most of them, not all of them is what I should say, most of them rose, right? The main thing when you're looking at an out-of-packs card post-Team of the Year is, is it a live item? Is it a meta player? And is it a player from a top five league or a top nine nation, a player that is gonna be used by most people in this game? I really like Road to the Finals and headliners from this year for Rises Out of Packs. Take a look at this Road to the Final Conte from last year, everybody used Conte, but they didn't wanna use this Team of the Year that was, you know, two and a half for three million coins right away. So instead, I remember watching this Road to the Final Conte at 730,000 coins last year, he rose all the way back up into January to 914,000 coins. Now, let's talk about return on your investment or a Rises Out of Packs from Team of the Year. I don't think you're gonna see as big of Rises this year as you saw last year, and here's why. First of all, there's more promo cards, there's more cards where people can put their money towards, it's not everybody's going for this Conte, people might be going for Headliner Gretzgra or people might be going for another CDM in this game, since there's more promo cards out there, there's just more cards for people to choose from and they have more options basically. So I think that is gonna be a factor and maybe some of your Rises not being as big as last year, but also the timing factor because Road to the Final and Champions League and Europa League games are gonna be starting literally like two weeks after Team of the Year ends. So instead of having a month to rise on the market after Team of the Year with all those coins and even Headliners being after Team of the Year last year putting more coins on the market, this year you're only gonna have two weeks. So it's about half the time. So if you technically look at it this way, this year I would maybe expect Conte to go from 730K in a two weeks time span up to maybe about 870,000 coins. So it's only going up 150K instead of reaching that full potential and going up an entire 200,000 coins. Or maybe like 120K instead of 2,000 coins or 200,000. I think that's gonna kind of make your Rises a bit smaller and make your out of pack investments still do good, but you just have to consider the timeframe since Team of the Year is starting so much later this year, I think that's gonna factor in a lot to these cards rising out of packs. Now again, what cards do you wanna pick this year to rise out of packs, right? And we're not talking golds, we're talking the out of packs, we're talking the special cards, the live items especially and the rare ones are the ones that I want you guys to focus on, right? Road to the Finals for sure because these guys are gonna have games in mid-February, which will be just shortly after Team of the Year and these cards are super duper rare. I trade with them very often on this game and they fluctuate a lot and a lot of people wanna have these in their teams post Team of the Year, right? Even a guy like Varan, he's a 1.3 million coin center back in this game, arguably the best center back card in terms of his gold card. Watch this guy drop over Team of the Year as other Team of the Year defenders come out, he'll find a low point and you'll be able to snag him up and buy him and watch him rise because people are not gonna be afraid to pay two million coins plus for a center back with people going out and buying prime icons for the teams. These Team of the Year center backs are gonna be very expensive when they come out. So we'll be watching cards like that but also the headliners. I really think these new headliners just came out. Since we have, again, a lot of good players in here. Ben Yetter, of course, possibly getting an inform this week. Even like Bomba, Zaha is very potentially getting special cards because he scores a decent amount of goals. Hyunmin Sun, 1.1 million. We are seeing a little bit of a, not market crash, but just a dip on the market on some of these. Some of them, like Retzger, are just very high at the moment because people are already buying these to link together Team of the Year cards that they think are coming. Now, in my opinion, do you wanna buy this stuff yet? I don't think that you wanna buy this stuff yet because my number one concern with all of this is if EA drops Team of the Year impacts and they drop Team of the Year nominees impacts at the same time with the Team of the Year nominee pack weight being very high and the Team of the Year pack weight being, of course, what it is, absolute 0.0001%. Team of the Year nominees, if they do come, will still crash this market. No matter if people have already sold off those nominees, if they have the high pack weight, people will sell cards because those nominees will come out. They'll look like Team of the Years and everybody will be enthralled by those new items on the game. So that's my only worry, right? And I also, again, I've been mentioning the panic. I've been mentioning panic, wait for the panic. We haven't really seen panic yet, right? We haven't seen the panic that I was mentioning before. Now I'm clicking on the wrong tabs because I'm looking at icons here, but let's look again at a freeze card, right? Let's look at a freeze card. Let's look at freeze Portnardo Silva as a great example. A lot of guys want this for the team, right? Very good center attacking mid. Bernardo Silva was 580,000 coins. His lowest so far has been 536 a couple of weeks ago. And this really isn't a sell-off for Bernardo Silva, right? This really isn't much of a sell-off. He's been between 540 and 590 for the past two months that he's been in the game. And now this guy is just a little bit lower than that. Maybe he was 511K yesterday. Maybe on Sunday night he was a bit lower, right? 525, yesterday on Monday he was, okay, he went down to 490 yesterday on Monday and then he kind of bounced back when we had no content. I would, again, still want to see more panic on a card like this because like we saw on this Bernardo Silva card, some cards bounced back yesterday on Monday when we didn't have any content. So again, wait for more loading screens to come out. Since we have this announcement today, I would be not surprised if we had a loading screen today at 6pm because I think that will cause a little bit more panic, but I just want to kind of just say wait. I want to say wait right now. I don't think we've seen the panic yet. I think there's still going to be a time to buy. And even if there's no panic before Friday when Team of the Year actually comes out, you might see stuff go up this weekend, but then obviously if Team of the Year is going to be a longer promo, they could, and if they're not putting nominees in packs, stuff could come out next week that could really crash the market too. So I know a lot of you guys want to buy before and we'll still definitely look into doing that, but I'm going to wait and see what kind of content the EA drops, what loading screens they drop, what hints we get later on this week. So that's kind of the out-of-pack special card situation for me. Honestly, I think a lot of cards are going to rise. Just again, what I use with this popular page for is look at the cards that get on this popular page, right? People know Alaba, Goretzka with the links, right? Renato Sanchez as a very popular Europa League live item. This guy is probably going to go even higher after Team of the Year. I would like to see some panic on him, see him drop like 40,000 coins or so, lower 900s to get you a good buy price, but people are going to have the coins to pay absurd amounts for these overpowered OP cards later on after Team of the Year, right? Goretzka, a very OP, incredible looking card, right? That's why I like the headliners and the road to the finals honestly the most out of a lot of these special cards and just your normal informs too, right? Inform Ben Yetter, depending on what he gets today, you know, it's a very meta card people like to use. All these Bruno Fernandez special items. Now he's got the player of the month so that's a bit interesting because people might be crafting that. Marcus Rashford's special items, right? People are going to buy back that Rashford. Kyle Walker's Inform, this card right here, right? A lot of pros have this for their qualifier teams. This guy isn't being panic sold at all, but when there's a point when he does, this card's going to be one that fluctuates like crazy, right, because he's one of the most OP and used center backs in the game. So we'll probably do more videos this next or later on this week about what cards, again, we can focus in on, you know, out of pack specials and stuff like that, but I want to talk about those for a minute and now I want to talk about icons because icons are also a very big part, but I want to save it to the end because some of you guys, and it's fine, but not everybody in FIFA can afford an icon, but let's talk about icons this year. Puskas, baby card, right? These are out of packs. Baby icons out of packs. I want to show you what baby icons out of packs did last year. This is Eusebio, right? One of the most OP icons yet last year in FIFA 20. 3.2 mil on the Xbox, 3.7 mil on the PlayStation. Even with Prime Icon moments coming in February, this guy was so OP that he rose up to 5.2 million coins in late March on the PlayStation. 3.7 to 5.2. A crazy rise in that Eusebio, one of the most insane we've ever seen, but these are the icons that I want to look at, right? Whether it's Croix that you want, whether it is like Rycard or Eto, Cantonal, one of the new ones, Vieira, Pelé, any of those new cards, I would argue that Pelé is this year's, or last year's Eusebio, right? Pelé this year is kind of like Eusebio last year from what I've heard and from what I've seen, but some of these mid-tier icons with the good links, they do incredible. Take a look at this Macalely, right? We can leave Panic sell-off down to 400,000 coins on both consoles, rebounds to 590,000 coins a few weeks after team of the year. Look at that return on your investment. Your return on your investment there is incredible, and this is mid-Macalely who was in packs, right? He was in packs, but then you can see as we get into February with icon moments coming out, a lot of these cards do tend to drop off, and of course, it's just the second half of the year, so prices drop anyway, but Baby Desai was another one. I don't think I have his graph pulled up, but that was another baby card. Like this year, Baby Canavaro would be a fantastic one to probably sink your coins into. I know I showed Puskas right here. You know, the new icons, right? Puskas, Eto, those top two for sure would be ones that I would keep my eyes on that are one of some of the most popular new icons in this game that people wanna use, especially just because they're brand new, right? And people have been using them all year. Now again, buy time for these. Puskas was 1.85, right? Now he's 1.66. I still think you wanna see a little bit of panic on these, especially because they're out of packs. If you see 100, 200K drops in undercuts, whenever there's a lot of panic going on or open bid listings, that's when you're gonna wanna get interested on these icons. Now let's talk about mid icons for a bit too. This is Cruyff, check this out. Mid Cruyff last year, 3.5 mil, all the way down to 2.4 mil during team of the year, and then rebounded right back to 3.2 mil, dipped a little bit when prime moments came out, but this guy went out of packs then, and was so meta that he stayed very, very high. I do think you will see rises on icons this year, right? Again, just like we talked about with the out-of-packs specials, you gotta look at meta, you gotta look at popular, and top nine nation, right? No icon league, but yeah, the big names, right? The big name icons, and the ones that have icon SBCs, you have to be a bit careful with this as well because they have that icon SBC price that will kinda hold them in check, right? So like Roberto Carlos Caca, if you wanted to do Canavaro, his SBC, a lot of people will be crafting that during team of the year, they won't actually be buying those cards, so those cards you might see less of a rise on because they have that SBC available in game, and just beware if they drop more prime icons during team of the year, that might inhibit some of their rise there too. Now let's look at primes, because primes have not been in packs for too long this year. Let's look at what happened last year, Rio last year, 1.2 million coins, bounced hard on a weekend, kinda came back down to 1.3, rose into February, and then bang, right? 1.28 to 1.46, was up almost 200K, and then icon moments come out in February and the dude goes to the bin to 1 million coins over the course of the next month. That again is gonna happen with a lot of cards, so just keep in mind that if you're buying an icon, especially a prime icon, right? Look at Rio this year, I think I have Rio's graph pulled up right here. Rio this year is 1.7 million. Some of these prime icons I feel like are gonna take a hit with the supply that comes during team of the year, because people are gonna, number one, sell icons to buy team of the year cards, and number two, these icons are gonna get supplied like they really haven't been yet, with the number of packs that are open on team of the year, and especially since we've had even longer time for people to save up packs for team of the year, there's gonna be a ton of supply, right? And then you have icons like got into it from last year as well. I wanted to show you this graph because some icons are just overpriced to start with. Garincha was 2.8 mil, dropped into team of the year to 2 mil flat. He did go up about 200,000 coins, but then his price just kind of stayed chill, and he didn't really move that much until throughout the rest of the year when he kept dropping, so again, you wanna pick the icons that are the most OP, the most usable, the ones that people have in their teams the most, right? Some primes this year that a lot of people like to use, cantona, eto, pushkash. Of course, everybody loves Dalglish, but the real prime is a big one. Fernando Torres' prime is gonna be one this year that I think you wanna keep your eyes on because this 88, even though he does have an icon SPC that's been out in the game, this prime is like, it's insane. So I want you guys to keep your eyes on Fernando Torres. That'll be one that I think could do pretty well. I think it needs to drop some more yet, but I also think it'll rebound. And when you're looking at a certain icon, if you wanna buy an icon for your team, right? Make sure you go on footbin and you compare the prices from this year to the last year, right? Where is mid-croiff right now compared to where he was last year? Mid-croiff on the market last year was again, during team of the year 2.4 million, he rose to 3-2. Well, croiff this year is still in the 3.3 million coin range. Now I know we have more coins in the game this year, but that's why I'm still saying I wanna see more panic on a lot of these cards. I wanna see more drop off before we actually look into seriously buying these for our teams. But regardless of whether it's special cards or icons that you're looking to buy, I just wanna take this video and kinda show you the rises and the market movements that you can see post team of the year on this stuff. Now I'm gonna make another video here the next couple of days on some of the best cards that I think will rise the most out of packs just because of their links, because of what happens to when team of the year cards come out. And a lot of people can't afford team of the years. So they just go back and buy a cards that they were using even before team of the year came out. So that's team of the year prep preparation video number two for you guys today. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions. I know it's a lot of info and we'll break it down a little bit more later on this week. But if you enjoyed it again, hit that sub button. I would greatly appreciate it. It's been Nathan Ford Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.