 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today we are talking about team of the year once again. When is it gonna be coming? We had a date confirmed on the EA website inside of the website code about when team of the year is actually gonna be coming out. And are we gonna see team of the year nominees coming tomorrow on Friday? I wanna talk us through that as well. And what this announcement of when team of the year is gonna actually be? How that's gonna affect the market because right now today, of course, it's rewards day. We're seeing some market movements because of that. And I'm just wondering what everybody in the game is gonna be thinking since team of the year might be starting on a different timeframe this year than it has been in the year past. Also, there's some SBCs expiring today that I think EA is not going to just leave out of the game. There are two SBCs that are expiring today, both icon upgrades. The base icon repeatable upgrade expires today on Thursday at 6 p.m. UK. So does the base or mid-pack. So I'm gonna keep a close eye on these. I think we're getting another icon SBC today. So I wanna talk about SBC fodder and what that could mean for the rest of the market today as well. But first things first, when is team of the year? Here's our information. This is from Weaver and Footdonk on Twitter. They found this inside of the, I think it was like the Spanish website or the English website or whatever, EA's website. It was added to the website code. It says here in the highlighted blue text, see who made the ultimate 11 on January 22nd. So we can learn a couple of things from this. First thing, the date. January 22nd is not this Friday, but next Friday. So next Friday, January 22nd is looking like when team of the year would start because they're gonna be showing us the ultimate 11. Now let's talk about this from another standpoint. The way that it is worded. See who made the ultimate 11 on January 22nd. Maybe EA would do something very cruel to us and I'm just theorizing this is not what's gonna happen. I'm just theorizing. What if EA shows us the full team of the year on January 22nd, but they don't actually put them into packs until January 25th on the Monday? Now that doesn't really make any sense, but I guess it could happen. They could reveal the team of the year and then on Monday, put cards in packs. I'm just saying, I hope they just put start team of the year on Friday and I wonder if EA is gonna actually start team of the year on the 22nd, kind of like what it sounds like here, because I feel like they know now that they could probably make more money from team of the year if they started it on a Friday instead of a Monday. Because historically, the first team of the year cards have always gone in packs on a Monday. So we're kind of curious to see what this means. We'll probably get more announcements from EA today. One thing we're looking for, I know this is a week out and we're kind of looking into the future a little bit, but this is big, right? We know then it's gonna be January 22nd around that timeframe when we will know who's in team of the year and that's when it should be coming out as a promotion itself. Now of course, the voting goes until the 18th, which is Monday of this next week, and then we're gonna have a couple days to wait until the actual date of team of the year, which would be that next Friday. So what do we do on that week in between? It makes sense that today, maybe today we get a loading screen, but tomorrow specifically, we get team of the year nominees. Now I don't know if you guys remember this from last year in FIFA 20. I'll take a look at that team for you guys just to show you what those team of the year nominees, actually they weren't showing up as a team of the week. I'd have to go to FIFA 20 players, but it's basically gonna be these cards right here. All of the cards that are in the vote, all of these little, these guys right here, the defenders, the goalkeepers, midfielders and attackers, they would all get their own card in the game. Now these are the team of the year nominees from last year, and basically all they were were plus one ratings off of the base card. It was plus one in every stat category and plus one overall. No matter how many special cards that player has already had, that's how those team of the year nominees worked. And they crashed the market because they had such a high pack weight. And again, I mentioned this I think yesterday, but if we do see any information about team of the year nominees today on Thursday, whether it's a loading screen, whether it's something that is leaked, or a card design, or a pack code or anything, I think you're gonna see more panic selling on this game because everybody that remembers team of the year nominees last year remembered how much they crashed the market because a card like this comes out, it's gonna crash VVD's informs, right? Or like last year we had a, there was one last year that really made a lot of moves. I think it was like Sergio Ramos because Sergio Ramos had an inform or a team of the group stage card that was basically the exact same as his 90 rated team of the year nominee card. And it like crashed all the specials because the team of the year nominee was so cheap, people would just sell their team of the group stage and go buy this one. So that's the one thing that I'm a bit scared about today in terms of like the Thursday flips and the market rise after a Thursday. The one thing that scares me about that a little bit is possibly getting team of the year nominees or information about that, a loading screen specifically getting that today because this could be honestly, if EA plays their cards right and if EA wants to do this, especially with the icon SBC's ending, they could drop a base icon player pick SBC today. Now that would be crazy for the market because people have seen that SBC from swaps or that player pick from swaps and that has done a lot of it's done a lot of hyping people up. So I don't know if they released like a mid icon pack repeatable or the, I feel like the mid or prime or maybe the 89 mid icon pack would be too much. Even the base icon player pick would probably be too much at this point. But if that SBC came out, I do feel like you would see some panic today to get that done. And then of course, if there was a loading screen as well, just be careful with that loading screen. So talking about the market in general and as a whole, we talked about the date for team of the year. What does that mean, right? What does that mean for the market? Now, a lot of people are gonna be saying, yo, those stuff is on this game, it's gonna get cheap and it's gonna get its lowest after a week in league sell off this weekend. But what you're gonna have a lot of people and even myself would be kind of saying this and you maybe wanna be ahead of the curve is a lot of people are probably gonna be saying that you wanna sell your cards either today on Thursday or tomorrow on Friday if we are seeing a team of the year nominees coming. And what that is gonna cause is an entire market crash in itself because when people are advising other people to sell, people keep selling, they keep undercutting and stuff is going to get cheap. Now that only happens if we see Pat code or if we see information about team of the year nominees and a confirmed date or a loading screen for that tomorrow or maybe more information about team of the year. But I feel like the market did pick up today because people were just wanting to buy their Thursday flipping investments. In my opinion, if you wanna play it safe, get your Thursday flips out by 6 p.m. content drop today. Now this might be one of those times where I usually say the market goes higher on Thursday night into Friday. This might not be a time where I risk it because I still feel like on this game there are cards especially out of pack specials and some golds that have further to drop. Of course, people bought up cards today. We watched prices on FIFA today literally rise up from the 6 p.m. content timeframe as people went out and bought cards that they went into flip for after rewards today. So that's my word of caution for this entire market. Now some of these headliners right now are actually dropping as we head into rewards. Holland was 550, he's 567 right now. This guy's been dropping a lot. Now I think people are selling off some of these cards because he was 607,000 coins. I think people thought that Holland might be getting into Team of the Week, which he was not. So we obviously went down. But also combine that with people are imagining that headliners are gonna get packed at rewards. You've got Gretzger down a little bit. Uvmakano is back down. So some of these cards are kind of trickling downwards towards rewards because I think people are expecting them to get packed today. So I do think that is something that will happen but you might see some of them bounce back a bit after the packs are opened. Same thing with the Team of the Week. We always talk about the newest Team of the Week cards that get packed a little bit and bounce. One card I would keep your eye on, actually three, Royce, DePie and Griezmann. And what we talked about, we talked about this yesterday, EA really did not juice the Team of the Week. This isn't really a sick Team of the Week. We just have Royce, Griezmann and DePie as probably, and maybe Gaia as like the cards that you would maybe want from this week's Team of the Week. So I know that EA gave us the Weekendly Plus objectives to go out and get some extra wins in Weekendly to get player picks and to get another chance at some of those cards. I'm just bummed that they didn't really juice Team of the Week 16 and that these picks are not from earlier on or like Team of the Weeks one through 16. That would be pretty cool. But I don't see a lot of extra demand for this now seeing what the Team of the Week 16 looks like. Although some people will still go after it because hey, you get a chance at extra picks. They play Weekendly anyway, so why not get one more win? Why not get three more wins and finish gold two instead of gold one and try to get those two player picks extra and see if you can get anything sick from it and at the very least pack 282 rated cards and then throw them into a footchamps upgrade, right? So that's gonna be people's thought process. I still think you'll see a bit of an uptake on the market. Right now, as you can tell, it is late night. The number of transfers on this game are very, very low. I'm just feeling like there's some impending probability of some panic, man. And I'm not trying to cause you guys into a frenzy. I'm not trying to say you need to sell everything right now, get it out, panic sell, whatever, none of that, right? I'm never gonna advise you to panic sell. I'm just saying that in my mind, the way I'm thinking of it is there is plenty of opportunity today for that panic selling to take place, for that panic selling to happen depending on what kind of content EA does release. Now I'm watching this 86 Lozano card right now because if you wanna buy Lozano, and by the way, a lot of people are saying that headliner Lozano with a 99 pace is a cracked out card. He's getting a glowing reviews on YouTube from people that use that card in game, but he's extinct, right? So I'm kinda looking at this 86 and honestly the other versions of Lozano too, but the 86, because it's the best one that we have in the game at the moment. I'm taking a look at this card. He was 190K earlier this week. He's now up to about, you know, 210 almost. I'm trying to snag one around 200K because if Lozano's headliner is extinct and people wanna try that card out, this would obviously, boom, 200K. Can I get that? Thank you. This would obviously be the next card that you could use. If headliner Lozano is extinct, then this is the only one that other people can go out and try and he has multiple other informs. So you might have an increased chance at getting lazy buyers on a card like this as well because he has multiple other informs and it's not easy to search for on the game. So I like that Lozano is a card that could pop up today. Now I still have a lot of coins liquid. I'm kind of still looking around the market, looking to sink my teeth into some quick flips tonight before rewards actually come out. But again, I would say that if you are doing Thursday flips, just be careful, right? Just be careful today with this game and with this market and what is going on because of the potential loading screen panic that could be caused today and the potential people knowing when team of the year is actually gonna be coming out that could change things as well. Last thing I wanna talk about is related to these icon SBCs once again. I feel like we're gonna get a decent day of content today because all week, literally Monday, we had nothing. Tuesday we had the showdown SBC, okay. Yesterday we had the 86 plus upgrade. Not a lot of people did it. A new team of the week, whatever. And I think that was about it for our content yesterday. I don't think we had anything else. But I feel like they're gonna put something else here instead of the base icon upgrade. Could we still have one entire week, one week in two days technically, or one week in one day until team of the year would fully come out? And if they are gonna run nominees this next week, that's one last week where they can try to drain coins off this game. And if I remember correctly, team of the year nominees last year, there were some good SBCs that came out during that timeframe that EA put in the game during the nominees time period and they let them sit over into the actual team of the year period so that you could craft those through upgrade packs during that time. So one thing I want you guys to keep an eye on is SBC fodder because a lot of it has spiked up after the 86 plus upgrade today. People trying to pack headliners from that SBC. 84s especially have gone up a lot. And I want to keep, I want you guys to keep your eyes on this stuff because it drops every single week with rewards. If you want a pretty low risk play, you could buy some SBC fodder. Two to three hours after rewards come out, you can take a look at the index 84 to see where it was today. Fodder was decently low last night, 62, 262, it boomed up to 313. All the 84s did. Now we're back down to 280, 279. So I would definitely watch this with rewards today. Watch the 84s, the 85s, and the 86s because if they do release a new icon SBC, then, wow, especially the 86s, they are even lower than they were before the content drop today. Those base icon upgrades, there's still an 86 plus upgrade that is out. There are still, there's a new player, the month SBC that is out for the OSBOS card which some people are doing. Some people are still doing prime icon SBCs. You have dos Santos, I mean, not really Delort. That's kind of, people aren't really doing that anymore. You also have people maybe trying to finish up Marez and Firmino tomorrow at rewards or Milner and a McTominay as we get closer to the date of that game. So there's plenty of SBCs out and I expect more SBCs tomorrow. And at the very least, even later on in this next week or even on Friday. So I like a little Thursday flip investment with SBC Fodder if you really wanna play it safe. I guess you could say this week. So I'm sure you guys are gonna have some questions because it's gonna be a crazy day, right? I'm not even gonna be able to tell you what kind of panic could ensue based on what kind of content that EA drops. But I feel like this market is still kind of on a thread and everybody in this game right now just wants team of the year. Everybody just desires to have team of the year. We've had the voting, we've had the concepts, we've had people on Twitter making predictions. We have EA, you know, putting out Rio Ferdinand's vote. They retweeted Joel and Bede's vote. Bash and Swine Steiger, they put out videos on why Mbappe should be in team of the year. So they're really starting to promo this stuff. And everybody really wants team of the year. So when we know when that is and it looks like we're starting to get that information and also if they're running team of the year nominees this next week, I feel like you're gonna see people cut the cord with a lot of their stuff and they're gonna be selling it. So just be careful with that today. Hopefully the extra week in the pick demand rises the market a little bit into 6 p.m. And then of course after that it's all fair game for EA, whatever they wanna do with content. It could get crazy out there on the market today. So I'm gonna be live streaming of course around the content drop. So make sure you check out that link down below in the description. That'll be fun to see together. What comes out tomorrow as a community in FIFA and as a stream. So if you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you do have questions and also subscribe if you are new. It's been Nate, The Foot Account and I will catch you guys later. Peace out.