 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We've got the full team of the year. We've got honorable mentions and now all the team of the year icons and packs and we've come to a conclusion, team of the years are basically impossible to pack. Now I know some of you guys that have packed them are like, no, Nate, it is possible. You can get them, but it's hard this year and it's also just, the pack weight is weird, right? Some days it seems better than others and the beginning of team of the year, it seemed really good. Now it seems to be not so good. I wanna talk about that today and of course with the upgrade packs expiring that we have been doing for a lot of these last couple of days, specifically the 75 plus and the 81 plus double, are these just gonna come back today or will EA drop some other upgrade packs out that maybe are better or maybe worse? We'll talk about that because it is an upgrade pack Monday and also speaking of upgrade packs, yesterday's 88 plus, again, the mid world cup and prime icon, as we see that basically the same one that they released last week, they released it again, but this time you can do it three times. I've already done it three times in yesterday's time span because we're crafting and opening a lot of packs because we're still trying to pack these almost impossible to attain at blues. But I'm talking about how that affected the market because price has reacted a lot of like we thought they would fire going up, some of the rest of the market dropping a bit. What's gonna happen today? We're gonna cover it. If you're excited for the video, hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you are new. Let's talk about these team of the years a little bit. I just wanna have a conversation because I feel like a lot of us just feel this way and we felt this way since like Thursday or Friday, it's hard to pack a team of the year this year and let's be honest, in general, it should be difficult because these are some of the best cards, especially this earlier on in the year. We're used to seeing stats like this in like team of the season, right? That's still like four or five months away, but here in January, team of the year, this is always a promo where everybody full sends but they full send because these cards are usually hard to pack and they're ones that you really wanna spend a lot of your effort to getting because they're worth it, but this year the pack weight just seems weird. It almost seems like sus at some level because team of the year messy right now is 5.2 million coins and 7 million on the PC. This guy was his cheapest day two. He was day one even. He was 3.8, 3.7 million coins that is absolute lowest day one, day two when the attackers were first in packs all by themselves and of course, common sense would tell us there's no way he's gonna be as cheapest then, right? Because there's gonna be more packs supply coming when the full team is out and when everybody opens their packs for the full team of the year, right? Well, that literally didn't happen for any of these cards. Most of these cards, except for some of the defenders where they're cheapest the first time they were put into packs, right? Like Jude, I think some of these guys did end up hitting their absolute lowest points on like Thursday, right? But we were expecting a lot bigger drops and a lot lower prices on a few of these cards and the pack weight is I think the biggest reason why these cards are as expensive as they are, right? I mean, even on the lightning rounds all the lightning rounds that we saw on Thursday and on Friday and even over the weekend Saturday, yesterday on Sunday these guys are just like really hard to pack this year which makes sense again in a clear point because they're team of the years and they're incredibly high rated but also I think last year spoiled us a little bit. I really think that it did because last year I mean, it wasn't easy to pack team of the years but I mean, I know guys last year that pack 12, 14 team of the year cards and a lot of duplicates with Don Aruma, Hakimi and Georginho, stuff like that, right? But still, this year that's like almost unheard of and these guys, if you hit one, like you win, you know? Like it's really, really hard to pack just one team of the year across the whole scheme of the game. So yeah, you know, you could kind of place the blame on EA sports and say, man, EA this pack weight maybe is a little bit dynamic and it's just weird, right? Also, we have to remember this is the first year of a new market with the Xbox and the PC. Sorry, Xbox and the PlayStation's together on one market. So that changes things as well. So it's really a learning experience but it's just so weird, right? Because last year with what we expected and what we saw this year, it's been a completely different story, especially with a lot of the cheapest prices for like the Messi and the Mbappe were day one which is really not what you ever expect. But regardless of the fact these guys are very difficult to pack, we are still chasing them down. I know a lot of you guys maybe feel like it's over for you because you've opened all your saved up packs and now you're like, Nate, I don't know what to do. I feel like a lot of people are in that spot and they're just sharing the sentiment like, man, team of the year is, I had my shot, I opened my saved up packs and well, now we're here. Well, there's still upgrade packs out but if you've kind of distinguished or if you've extinguished all of your coins and now you're like, all right, I'm done. You know, I understand where you're at right now. At least EA has given us some opportunities to still go get some packs to replenish our club through objectives. And we gotta give kudos to where kudos is due because team of the year draft, the century of wins, the team of the year cup, all of these modes kind of like, again, it's like wins or wildcards, right? They gave us plenty of objectives via game modes to get packs and GGs to EA for that. So if you're kind of like down bad and your club is absolutely in the mud, if you haven't started on this stuff yet or if you haven't played a lot of these games or worked on these objectives, definitely go out and do some of that because that will help, right? Get your club back off the ground because like we said in yesterday's video, we have some pack coding. We may even have something coming really soon with future stars and that's not a promo that you really wanna sleep on as well because that's gonna be a really, really high promo for this game, especially because it's gonna include a swap program which we'll talk about a little bit more in this video too. But I just wanna talk about team of the year pack way because I mean, besides Erling Holland, a lot of these guys are just up, up and away. And I think what really happened with this Holland team of the year card and what's going on right now is honestly just like a price kind of reset because he was way too expensive to begin with. Now, he's 3.9 million coins. He's gonna reach a low point today, either early Monday at some time today, he's gonna reach a low point in the panic selling because a lot of people have been trying out this card. He's down almost a mil from where he was but he's also super rare. So you have to kind of keep that in mind but he's down a lot if you've been selling him off and I believe that this is probably more of a accurate price for him in the three mil range. He could keep falling further but he's gonna reach a low point and he's gonna bounce back because he's the 12th man. He's gonna be a bit more expensive and he probably should be as well just because he's the 12th man and a bit more rare. So just kind of keep that in mind. Watch that Holland price today if that's something you're very interested in because I think that'd be a card might be able to pick up today for a low price and see him rise back up throughout this week as we expect the market to probably rise up a good amount throughout the rest of this week as well. Now, let's talk about Monday content. Let's go straight to the point. Today's content on Monday as we said in the intro we have got two upgrade SBCs that are expiring the 75 plus player pick and 81 plus double upgrade. And we knew this, right? We knew this when they first dropped the SBCs last Monday that the league upgrades we're still gonna be here, right? These are not going away. Don't worry if your premium league won, premium LaLiga, which these seem to be the problem with the Packweight anyways, these are horrendous. I mean, they're just bad. I don't know what it is but that's just Packweight in general as we talked about. These are going away today. I really hope that EA Sports literally hit the refresh button and put these guys back in the game until Friday because these would be great SBCs to craft and even if you're kind of done trying to open packs for a team of the year, if you wanna set your sights on future stars, these would be great player picks and packs to save for that. But I do believe these will get replaced with something today. I don't think EA would just let us have the premium league specific and the regular league specific upgrades. I think they would give us something else but we'll just have to see. Of course, I'm gonna be doing a lot more upgrade packs throughout the week this week. I just ended up putting some more coins. I was down to about 45 packs and now I'm back up to about 91. I opened a lot of my big packs yesterday with the team of your icons being out. 83 times 10s have been absolutely abysmal. I opened my Centurions 100. It was bad, 83, 25, it was bad. So that's kind of where this kind of bad pack luck kind of stuff is coming from and we were talking about it in the stream. I know some of you guys, like we said, have had big polls, but it's just weird, right? And that's why I wanted to bring it to you guys today on the video once again. But let's talk more Monday content. We do have an 85 times three defender SBC that's going to refresh today. Of course, we had the 85 times three attacker SBC yesterday, which is definitely a bit overpriced, but I've seen people pack really big cards, including team of the years from that SBC. So don't just skip over it right away. If you're crafting upgrades this week and you have fodder, that's a good SBC to do. This one's coming back today. And again, guys, player SBCs right now, you already saw, I completed the Bore SBC, right? That was one that we had yesterday. It was a bit of a surprise. There was no leak for this SBC even and we're still wondering, where's the Recharleson? Where's the flashback, Giorginho? Well, last week we had flashback cards on Friday and Tuesday with the Ramos and then the Pogba. And then we had, of course, Friday again this week or a couple of days ago with Mane. So maybe Giorginho is Tuesday this week. Maybe it's today on Monday. Who really knows? Maybe the Recharleson. It's the only other leaked SBC that we have at the moment, the Recharleson that we was probably thinking was going to drop yesterday, but it didn't. That's the only other player SBC that could maybe come today, but last Monday we didn't get a player, so maybe we won't this week as well. But yesterday, the big SBC that everybody was doing and that affected the market was, well, these two, but the 88 plus mid prime or World Cup icon upgrade. You can do it three times and it's still an 83, 85 and 86 squad, which is actually very craftable, but you saw a lot of the fodder market as we expected move like crazy. If you bought fodder yesterday, you are loving life. Remember, these 85s are down here at 10,000 coins. They spiked all the way to 14K where they still are. 86s though, I think 86s had the highest return investment because you were able to get these guys at about 14K, I believe, yeah, 14, 15,000 coins, right? But they went over 20,000 coins, some of them getting into SBC solutions and selling for even like 24, 25, 26,000 coins for some 86s yesterday at some points within that first hour of when the SBC was released and those spikes were so big all because this SBC you could do three times at once. My only slight complaint about this is that we wish we could maybe do it repeatable like as many times that we wanted or maybe like we could do it like twice a day or something like that for those of us that are still opening upgrade packs. Like I said, I already did all three of them in the first day, which is crazy, but it's just because we're opening so many upgrade packs and getting all that fodder. So if you still have fodder, you don't have to necessarily sell it right now. I think today the market's gonna rise on the fodder side of things, people get their rewards, they'll go out and even though they'll pack some of these cards, there'll be more demand to do SBCs than supply of these cards on the market coming in from weakening rewards getting paid out. So I would expect to see most of the fodder market actually go up today. None of it looks super duper low enough for me to really go in and invest in. In my opinion, maybe the 83s, if you think they're gonna go back above a thousand coins, which they could because the 85 times three defender pack is refreshing today and we still have some of those other SBCs with lower tier squads than them. Including the icon pack has an 83 squad in it. So maybe if you can get some 83s, it'll like, I don't know, 900, 950 coins, they could go back up to about 1.2, 1.3 maybe at some point, because they did spike yesterday, as you can see here. But we'll just have to see, it depends on what content that EA drop. But for the rest of the fodder, it's always a good time in general to sell fodder when you have a big SBC release like yesterday, when you were getting those crazy high sales on 86s, that's fine. 87s, some of them are selling at like 30,000 coins in the peak of the rise, like 32K for Fabinho, right? Like that is a really insane sell price, like go for that. Because a lot of those spikes you see in the first hour when a big SBC like an icon pack has dropped, that's an optimal time to sell fodder. Now, the reason that you could hold and wait is, okay, maybe Fabinho can get back to 32K or maybe even a little bit above that, later on this week, if EA continue to release SBCs like player SBCs, if they were to release another, like a hero pack or something like that because there's not as much supply, right? Think about it, all of the supply is kind of ended. It was all in the weekend, right? Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, people opening safe packs, especially yesterday was like the last day that maybe safe packs were being held, that's all done now, right? And a lot of your lightning rounds are gonna be done as well. EA will probably still run lightning rounds this week, which will keep fodder in check a little bit, but there's still gonna be demand there for people that are doing upgrade packs that have SBCs halfway done because a lot of the problem during teaming there as well is people do upgrade packs. Look at my SBCs right now. I'm two out of four in Mane, one out of six on Javi Alonso. I've started Hugo Sanchez and two out of seven on him. Now I know that I'm doing a lot more upgrade packs, but others may have started this like, oh crap, I'm one or two segments away from completing this SBC. Well, I gotta go out and buy the cars to do it now because I don't have the SBC fodder or I'm not opening any more packs. So there's still gonna be demand because there's so many SBCs that are out. I think that you can hold on to some fodder, like if you have the 90s and 91s, some of these guys actually went down yesterday because I think people were hoping that these cards would end up being required more for like an icon pack, but these guys ended up going down because I believe people saw the requirements and they're like, okay, there's no like big time squad in here and they sold some of these because there's no like 88 squad requirement or anything like that. But, you know, if you still have these, if you didn't sell like 76,000 coins, I still think you're gonna be okay because if I'm being honest, a lot of the people that were selling these were investors, they were selling these cards to go on a Ford fodder or to go and maybe take the money on their investment to go do the SBC or they were just scared and panic selling because the SBC didn't require what they thought it was going to because like this de Bruyne's not in packs. This drop off is purely from investors selling. There's no supply on the market right now as it is. So that's kind of why those cards are dropping. But if you have those, I'd probably still hold. They could easily go back up to 75, 76K like they were unless you sold already. You know, I think those cards can go back up and that's how I feel like a lot of the market is gonna be reacting this week as well, including the team of the years because they just seem to be so like unpackable. The fact that Benzema is 2.5 million coins. I mean, guys, it does seem a little bit expensive but also in one sense, it makes sense a little bit too because yeah, these guys are really, really elite. They're really hype. And if they are gonna be this rare, they are gonna maintain a pretty expensive price because a lot of people will wanna get them just because they're insane and because they're a team of the years. And that's a GG to EA for knowing their game well and making this work out well. I mean, EA, they do this right all the time and they're doing it right here again because these guys are expensive and if people go out and buy these for their teams, like if you wanna go and buy Benzema, I'm not gonna tell you not to buy a team of the year and have fun with it. All I'm saying is I don't think that these guys can maintain these prices for months to come. I do believe that a guy like this Benzema you talk about after the Future Stars promo where some pretty cool cards are gonna be dropped. I know it's like, Nate, why would I sell a Benzema for a Future Stars card? It's like 92 rated. But remember that Ansu Fati from a couple years back in Future Stars or some of the other really expensive Future Stars we've had, they have affected team of the year prices because they're no longer the newest and most hyped cards when these other promos keep coming afterwards. So just be careful with these. If you wanna use them for your team, by all means go for it. I'm not telling you to not buy because I feel like a lot of people are looking for the lowest point and it seems to have passed. But these cards can continue to rise up during the week. I really believe this week of content's gonna be slow. And I think that's gonna help the market continue to rise up. If there are prices out there right now that you are looking at, that you see whether it's an out of packs card, whether it's an in packs card that you think is pretty low and you think could go back up. I mean, take an eye like look around the market and find some good prices because I believe that yesterday created an opportunity to buy some cards because we had that icon pack, right? We had that kind of coin drain SBC that caused some people to sell cards. Like this team that turned in Foden yesterday, I was looking just at his graph a minute ago. He was, even though we have Saka in the game, he was 320,000 coins yesterday. It looks like he's almost back to it but he was just an hour or two ago down to like 290,000 coins. So if you're looking to make coins on the market today, I still do believe we're gonna have ourselves a solid Monday morning market rise and if content today is just refreshed upgrade packs, nothing crazy at all. I believe that prices would probably keep going up on stuff that is meta that is popular and that is rare, right? Those are our three qualifications always for cards to continue to go up. So, you know, your winter wild cards, items that have been really, really inflated in price, they could go up a little bit further. Now be careful with a guy like Robertson, right? Because he's down and he's down because of the Cancelo that's in a team of the year, honorable mentions, but like, this Ben Yetter card, I know that people are completing in Bape player of the month but Ben Yetter has been dropping off all day. He was like 380, 390, all the way down to like 360, actually 350 where he is right now. So this would maybe be a card like if I could get a snipe at like 345 or something, I would be halfway interested in trying to trade with this today because he's a rare card. He could very easily go back up to 380K. You can see he is definitely a very rare card. Might have missed the opportunity to buy here. Maybe I can catch some bids that were listed beforehand but you know, that sort of thing, I think the content that we got yesterday and we talked about this in yesterday's video as well, it created an opportunity to buy some out of packs cards and maybe even some of the team that are honorable mentions from the promo team because of the content that was released. Now, speaking of some of the honorable mentions, a lot of these guys dropped off just a little bit yesterday, like, you know, 5%, I wouldn't even say 10% drop offs on a lot of these cards. Kudubali was around 430,000 coins and you know, now he's in like the 420K range. So these guys, the honorable mentions, they seem to have a decent amount of supply on the market but I'm not packing them. So I don't know who's packing them but besides like Bremer, Bremer is the only card that I've packed thus far and we're gonna continue to try throughout this week to get more and more but that's what's disappointing for me at the moment is just trying to pack some more blues, either it's honorable mentions or the real blues, preferably the real blues but you know, these guys did drop off a bit yesterday. I did pick up a cane at 290, I think that was a bit cheap. I mean, this guy was 340 for most of the day yesterday. I picked up a Kudubali in the low 400s, thought that was pretty good because these guys did get packed yesterday as people opened up their safe packs but also at the same time, they're in pretty high demand. Alfonso Davies yesterday, right at the content drop went down to like 270, he's back up a little bit and then kind of the same thing happened with the Team of Your Icons but also like not really. Team of Your Icons are a slight bit different because they're just a lot harder to pack in general. Some of those prices were like not affected at all. Like Dinho was still 11 mil, David Beckham is still 3.2 mil, Gerd Mulder is still about 1.5. You know, some of these guys dropped off a little bit yesterday, there really wasn't a lot of panic selling. You can see Gerd was like 1.65, went down to about 1.54, kind of between 1.5 in the middle and then 1.6. Other cards like Van Der Sar, who is 800k, yeah, he's now down to like 700,000 coins flat. You can see, right, 854, he went all the way to 660 and now he's kind of coming back up. These guys are gonna maintain their rarity but they're still in packs for the rest of this week which means there'll be a little bit of supply here and there. You'll see them popping up on the market and it doesn't mean their prices are done, dropping or rising yet. It's just kind of treated as like a normal promo team. Their cards are in packs so they could get supplied on any day where EA drops some SBCs that brings supply to the market. So that's kind of what's going on with the market right now. You know, the Mbappe situation is if you have a Golden Mbappe, do I expect Golden Mbappe to like maintain his price of 800,000 coins for like weeks to come? I doubt it because A, people are doing the play of the month just because they have a lot of fodder and B, it's a gold card, right? And Mbappe gold will be back in packs at the end of this week and of course we know what happens to the market, especially during the month of February and into March. There's always a big market crash like late February and in March. People think about full birthday and usually the post team of the year market rise kind of like kind of reach the tipping point then as EA is releasing these SBCs and there's something to panic about always during that time of the year. So we're not there yet by any means but I don't expect all prices right now in this game to continue going up for the rest of the year. It's definitely kind of more of a short term window where I feel like the market is, we've had a really nice bounce back, right? People that have not been able to afford team of the year cards are going back out onto the market and buying other promo cards like you look at the Centurions. Centurions to allow 1.15, right? Yeah, this guy was 800K in packs. Verati still 600,000 coins. Trent, it's 312, right? Neymar was 1.8, he's 2.3. You know, Campanbe is finally rising up. Jordy Alba is 132,000 coins. You look at the Windsor Wildcards promo team, right? You've got Kimmich with the links is definitely up. Veran is up, Benzema, St. Max. A lot of these guys just keep rising and that'll probably take place for a little while but it's not gonna last forever. So just kind of keep that in mind. It's safe to hold teams this week for sure unless EA drop of madness but that's kind of where we're at with the market in my opinion at this time. It's a really good market to trade in though if you find those fluctuations because a lot of people are not scared to buy and a lot of people have coins. So there's that. Last thing I wanna talk about today is future stars because last year at this exact time we actually had the future stars promo starting during team of the year, literally last year, right? I remember looking at this last year getting and trying to attain swap tokens while team of the year is out. Like we had team of the year challenge SBCs that gave out future stars swap tokens. And again, these are the rewards from last year and the reason why we're talking about this is because the card design has been officially added to the code. Here it is, future stars swaps token. It's not, I don't see it in the game searchable yet but it's probably gonna be in pretty soon if we're actually gonna get swaps pretty soon. So watch out for that. And the other thing I wanted to mention is we had our first reward for the swaps program that was leaked yesterday. And when we started getting rewards leaks that means we're not very far off at all. Now we didn't see that pack in the store that I thought we were gonna see that contains the swaps token but maybe as soon as early as today on Monday this could be something that EA try to swing the team of the year hype in their favor towards the next promo with a future star swap starting early. And this leak for a cutinio future star swap reward this has just got us kind of confused. It's lovely that we're gonna potentially get a nice cutinio card via the rewards for the swaps program but it's also like a head scratcher because this future stars promo is all based around you 23 players, right? That's literally what future stars is. And cutinio does definitely, definitely does not fit that bill but he was once I guess a wonder kid if you will. So maybe that's where they're getting this but nonetheless some version of cutinio whether it's a moments card whether it's a future stars whether it's a flashback is gonna be one of the rewards in the swaps program. So watch out for maybe some more leaks today about future star swaps. That could bring some excitement to objectives to grinding the gameplay modes or whatever it needs to be to get the swap tokens that could bring some hype to the game this week as well. Again, I don't know why that's gonna drop but it just seems like it would be pretty soon because we have those leaks starting and we have those card designs added. And like I said, we didn't see that store pack added but it was in the code, right? The New Year's star pack or whatever it was the New Year cheer pack went away yesterday. We had the essentials pack and of course a lot of lightning rounds but nothing super crazy in terms of the store packs yesterday at least form a perspective of the swap tokens for future stars. So that's kind of what's going on right now. I'm gonna be continuing to rip packs this week trying my best to get blues. I don't even have the team of the year counter up right now because we're at zero and I wanna get this to one and two, three, hopefully multiples on there so that it makes our grind worth it but that's what we're gonna be doing on stream this week. So if you wanna check us out, link down below is in the description but that's gonna be the Monday video for today guys. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Foot account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.