 Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We're talking about trends today because in some areas EA are very predictable, but not so much in other areas. One trend yesterday was broken while another continued much to our dismay because it hasn't meant good things so far this year in this game. We're going to cover all of that today. The latest showdown series content, the trends that are continuing, the trends that stopped and what to expect today on a Sunday content day. We always expect some big content on Sundays. Will they deliver today? We'll talk about that in more in today's video. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's SBCs and objective and evolution content. I'm still working on a kanji. I got three or four squads done and it was helped with the craft of this card and a lot of the other showdowns and other SBCs because of one of the SBCs that was dropped yesterday. But before we get to that, let's go to our daily showdown players. We're getting two showdown players each and every day, and yesterday it was the two that we expected. It was Alexander Esauk and Ben Chilwell, of course, for the upcoming game which is happening tomorrow on Monday, Newcastle versus Chelsea. Now EA didn't juice these cards up as much as they did a kanji and Bobby Clark, but I would say that this is still a really good set of SBCs, especially this Esauk card. You've got a double playstyle plus 88 rated card which could go to a 90 if Newcastle win this game. He's got Rapid Plus and Powershot Plus, not a ton of other play styles to be completely honest, but what we're seeing here is EA basically didn't upgrade these cards as much as they did to a kanji and Clark, but I think it's because they wanted to make some cheaper showdown SBCs to appeal to as many people as possible in this game, whether you have a lot of coins or not a lot of coins or fodder in your ultimate team. Now these cards aren't bad. I think Esauk is the favorite, but when I look at Esauk, I think about the SBC that almost everybody did in the last two weeks in this game, and that was Teemo Werner. If you have Teemo Werner, I mean obviously this is a completely different card than him, but Esauk is a Premier League striker and he's 125,000 coins. When I look at this, I don't think he goes straight into my team over Teemo Werner, no chance. He does have the Powershot, he does have the Rapid. Esauk's always overpowered in-game. He wasn't, this card isn't as great as I was really hoping that he could be, but it's not terrible. I think he is the favorite SBC, 748 upvotes, only 125,000 coins for a card that is always pretty OP in-game, regardless of maybe what some of the stats say. I think it is a decent SBC and he is 72% upvoted. On the flip side, Ben Chilwell, I don't even know man, we've had some really good left backs. I feel like most people in this game have an abundance of left backs in their teams and this card just doesn't cut it. Yes, he could go to 90 rated and get 90 pace, long ball pass and incisive pass. He looks more of like a midfielder maybe to me. Sub-Amon is a center mid instead of a left back. It's not a bad card. It's only 80,000 coins with two playstyle pluses. That is pretty decent. Now just to give you an idea, I love these graphics. Shout out to Footshare for tweeting this out. Just to give you an idea of what the cards could potentially look like for their optimal upgrades. If Chelsea win tomorrow, Chilwell goes to a 90. He'd look like this. Esauk would go to a 90 and look like this and then of course you'd have the opportunity to put them into that evolution where you can upgrade them even more and you know Esauk would go to a 91. Chilwell to a 91 and you know, it wouldn't be that terrible to be completely honest. If Esauk were able to look like this in the end, kind of like the same thing we were looking at with the Econji card, it could be good. So I like that the prices are cheaper and I understand why the cards aren't that crazy juiced it, right? That's our word we like to use boosted and juiced combined to juiced it. But it's solid. It's solid. It's kind of like seven, eight out of 10 content. It's not boom straight into your team like the other cards like Econji and Clark, but it is decent and they are live upgrading showdown cards. So that's kind of my thoughts there for the showdown. I don't know who's going to be today. We'll talk about that in a little bit. Really, really interested to see who is today's showdown SBC. Now let's talk about the SBC that all of us love every single time that it drops, but it was a trend that was broken. We mentioned the 83 times 10 in yesterday's video, but I wasn't really expecting it. I was expecting the 82 20 EA broke the trend, which is great because this is way better than the 82 times 20 our beloved 83 times 10 returns, which is a fodder crafting machine of an SBC same requirements as always. I mean, if you look at it per a price standpoint, it's 40,000 coins to do, but we all know that it is very craftable with the 81 plus player picks with the exchange grind, all the upgrade packs that are out right now and the ability to even do the 83 plus team a week player pick to get yourself or 85 plus whatever the team of the player pick is at this rate. I think it's an 83 plus. You can craft this SBC very, very, very easily and I'm very glad that EA broke the trend because that SBC is like we said much better for crafting everything whether it's showdowns like I'm using the 83 times 10. I did all three of those today to give me some higher rated cards to do another squad of a congee. I have to barely finish off that fourth and final squad. A couple of objective packs will help me do that. And this is probably a last call. If you want to do Bobby Clark or a congee, these SBCs expire before content today since that game is happening today on Sunday. Make sure you get either those done. But the 83 times 10 is always a W. We absolutely love that. And it also helps you craft this brand new SBC that is unlimited repeatable a gamble pack if you will that you can do as many times as you want. And this one's okay. It's not great, but it's also low rated enough and what you're getting back from this pack will give you opportunity to craft back into it very easily, especially with the 83 times 10. Again, the player picks that are still out for one more day, the 81 plus player picks and the exchange grind allowed me to do three of these today in just a short amount of time. And look, I'm putting in the three cards that I got two of the three back into the SBC. I mean, this is basically the same pack that you get from getting 11 wins or more in weekend league. It's not an amazing pack, but it is at least something fun to do. And with the repeatability and the grind ability of the menus right now to get this fodder, it is fun to try out. So we're going to open one here. Is that Robbo? No. Oh my gosh, Kieran Tierney Thunderstruck. Oh, that is not good. What's the 86 rated? Okay, boom, straight back into the SBC for sure. If you're a little bit more lucky, you could pack somebody who's 87, eight or nine rated and then throw them into an exchange SBC or craft a squad of like a congee like I was hoping for an 89 right there. I would have put that in the congee SBC, but I have no problem with the 85 plus pick just because it is something fun to sit and do on the menus. If you're grinding the menus a lot right now, just don't expect anything crazy from it. That is for sure. Now, the one thing I will say is in the whole list of all the different promo cards that you can pack from this, it doesn't mention a road to the final cards and mentions team of the group stages. It doesn't mention road to the final cards, but I have seen people pack those. I don't know if it's a compensation situation. Since I've done the SBC now four times, I don't think I would get compensation for that. Technically, if you packed a road to the final and it didn't say that, we'll just wait for an EA tweet. If EA mentioned something about it, then they will. But if they don't say anything, I don't know if they'll say anything. This is one of those 50-50 opportunities. So I wouldn't expect it. I mean, there's a lot of different promo cards in that SBC to begin with. So I wouldn't go chasing compensation just because of that drop in yesterday with that kind of wordage moved. But since this SBC was dropped, you know guys, what makes fodder prices move the most in this game, right? It is the gamble packs, the chance at getting something good. What did we say to invest in a couple of days ago, right? 84s, 5s and 6s. Holy did 85s go to the freaking moon. 85s are almost the price that 86s were earlier on the weekend. We have got 85s that have gone from 4,000 coins, 4,500 coins to 7k. I know some of you guys were investing. We were talking about this for the upcoming showdown promo, the favorite investments for the upcoming week. And I was shouting the 84s to 86s the most. Wow, I did not expect this big of a rise. This player, SBC, the campaign mix-up grade rather, really helped out the rises on those cards. If I had 85s to 86s, I would probably still hold on to them right now. EA are running the lightning rounds still in the store like crazy and it's supplying those. But those prices just keep going up because this SBC is unlimited, repeatable. So big W there for that low tier fodder is rising like crazy. So GGs, if you invested, I think Informs actually went down a little bit. But again, I think that's due to again, the fact that the store packs are just so crazy. I think Informs, actually they're barely down. They're like 29,000, 30,000 coins. They're basically the same price. So they haven't moved too much. But I know they were above 30k for a little bit. But it relates to those 85s that went crazy. We also had the refresh of the icon player pick. You've seen it here, right? It's right here in front of you. 87 plus, this refresh yesterday, and it's expiring today. So if you want to get that done, last call to do that. But other than that, fodder moved in a low tier range because of this 85 plus pick for sure. Now, that's enough of the SBC action. Let's go to the objectives just for a quick second. There was a new FC pro set of objectives released here because there is a pro event today. FC pro leagues season six. So for watching the Pro events, you get the two players pack. Wow, great stuff. And then you also get the EMLS cup kickoff and champion objectives done here. Which one thing that I noticed is EA sent me this kit, the EMLS home kit. I have that kit and it's different from the one that is in the game. Like the kit that I have says TikTok on it as a sponsor and this one says Coke Zero Sugar. I'm confused. Anyways, minor details. But yeah, that's from objectives yesterday. Not a whole lot going on there. The last thing to cover from yesterday's content would be the evolutions. And we had a new Evo yesterday. And this is the trend that continued. That is not a good trend. These icon evolutions, first of all, why is EA dropping this twice? Why do we need two of these? Why not release two of the golden glow-up evolution? Or maybe even two of the showdown winners boost? When we're getting showdown SBCs all through the week, give us a second opportunity to do this. But they give us two of these legends of the pitch. Guys, here's the trend. Anytime they release an evolution for icons and upgrading icons, it's in L. It has happened now three times this year. 6% upvoted, 100,000 coins for this evolution. Some of the best cards to come out of it are Prins and Beckham. I think Beckham's maybe one of the most hyped cards. If you take a look at his cards price, it went up a lot yesterday. But guys, like whenever there's an icon Evo, the cards that are the most biggest names and the ones that are the most popular icons, they go up like every single time. So it is a really good opportunity to like maybe trade or if there's leaks to invest off of that. But the upgrades itself for what you are paying are just not that great. David Beckham, of course, does go to a decent card here, goes 84 paces. He gets the Quick Step and Dead Ball, Play Stop Plus. He goes 96 passing, which is pretty crazy, right? But you're paying 220k plus 100k to get the evolution done. So you're 320,000 coins into the card. And you're getting a card that's sure if you're a fan of David Beckham, the best version that you can kind of get of him for just playing the game, especially if you already have one in the club. But like this card dropped yesterday. Like the Future Star's Beckham dropped in price yesterday after the Evo came out for a noticeably worse version of the Beckham card. I mean, this one's got four star four star whipped pass plus. He had the huge pace boost, huge defending boost. This card has 80 defending. This one has 69 defending. So I know if you already have one of these in the club or if you you know where this is actually, this is five head plays from EA. They make everybody go and do the icon player pick, right? That's the gamble everybody wants to do. And then they allow you to put the terrible bad base icon that you get from this into the evolution and make you spend more coins to get a higher rate. That's that's what they're going for, right? Not really. But I just think that the icon evos this year have been terrible. I mean, the other icon evos that we have had are the icon upgrade, which was 8% upvoted, cost 200,000 coins. And then I think it was, I forget the other one that was released, legendary comeback. Yeah. And it was like Barresti and Nesta. And they weren't horrific if you already had it in your club. But another 200,000 coin evolution, that's a trend that just needs to stop, I guess. I don't know icon evos. Maybe they just need to stop releasing them because none of them have been that good. We like evolving silver cards up to a semi meta version of a player rather than getting rid of the icon car design and giving them the evo car design. I don't know. So I know some of you guys might like this because you already have on the club. But I think that is, that is a trend that I would be fine if it stopped. And if we didn't get any more icon evos, because every single one that we seem to get is just not good. That was a content yesterday in this game. One thing I do want to cover really quickly is the store, because EA continues to run. They're not out right now because they expired, but they continued to run crazy store lining rounds and crazy packs. They put a 750,000 coin. This was the big icon pack that we looked at earlier in the week. It guarantees you four icons, winter wildcards, future stars or Champions League heroes, heroes or icons in the pack. One of them is guaranteed to be 89 or higher, and then an 81 times 35 untradable in the pack. I mean, wow, 750,000 coins is absolutely bananas. And this isn't even the biggest pack that was released in the store yesterday, in my opinion, because remember that 50k pack? They re-released it a couple hours after content, the grab bag, right? The one that was $2 to do, 50,000 coins. I opened it for a second time because like, you have a chance of packing a team of the year and EA, they're going to get a lot of people to open that pack just like I did to try to get a team of the year. I didn't get one. I got Oryartha ball. So there's that. But EA just seems to be going all out with the packs right now, man. I don't get it. Like, why are they running? We have already mentioned this, but why are they running better to lining rounds for a re-release of old cards in packs than what they had for lining rounds during team of the year? It really does not make sense. Maybe they see that the hype of this game is just not very good, and they're trying to milk it for all it's worth and make as much money as they can. Question mark? I don't even know, man. So they keep dropping these tradeable lining rounds like the 85x7 and the 84x10 as well, and it would impact fodder. But then again, like we saw yesterday, these cards and for fodder are all still doing very, very well because of the demand, especially on the lower tier. Now, I will say, I do think that it is probably keeping some of the card prices in check. Like, Team of the Weeks didn't go up that much because they got supplied right from the lining rounds. And we saw, even on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, the fantasy cards, you're seeing it happen and be impacted on the market now as some of them are dropping a ton as they got packed a lot last week. These Team 2 cards that are dropping a lot from panic selling, there's so much supply on the market from all those lining rounds that have been put out. They're probably going to run those lining rounds again today. So watch out for supply on the Team of the Week. Watch out for the supply on the re-release of players that are in packs. Like, you know, we just looked at the Neymar, but maybe it's Fire Ramos who I was able to flip yesterday. I was able to flip a Team of the Group stage Bukayo Saka from 400 to like 450. He ended up going higher than that. But just keeping on these cards because they are fluctuating and they get supplied day in, day out with these lining rounds. And it is moving the market. So let's talk about today though. We already mentioned the lining rounds. Those are going to come today for sure. Sunday. Sundays are days that we always pay attention to for a couple different reasons. Now of course, we've got a showdown SPC that's coming today. Daily showdowns. That's the whole point of this promo. Who's it going to be? It's not as clear cut today, guys. Because we had a game today, right? We've got City Liverpool, the game tomorrow's Chelsea Newcastle. And then I don't even know from all the leaked showdowns that are out right now, I have zero clue who is going to be the showdown today. Because so many of the other games like this Barça-Atlético Madrid game isn't until the 17th of March. There's other leaked games for these showdowns that aren't even happening until the 24th of March. Same thing here with Inter and Napoli. I think this game is taking place next weekend on the 17th as well. I have no idea who the showdown is going to be today. Just go, I would say, off of any of the leaks. There's like five more leaked SPCs to come out or pairs of showdowns that it could be. It's really up in the air. I do imagine that there would be a leak today before the content drop, kind of telling us who it is going to be. There's an NWSL. There's a Bundesliga. There's Serie A. There's a cup matchup for Manchester United and City, the women's teams. So there's still a lot of potential there. We have to see big boosted cards once again. I wonder if EA is going to go one set of crazy boosted cards like a Conjunio Clark and then one kind of quieter set of cards like they did with Esauq and Chilwell. We'll just have to see. But we will go to showdown SPC today. Speaking of content time, if you're in USA, this is from my USA, lads only. There is a time change today, which means content time is going to be different from all of us that are affected by time change. Maybe it's not just USA, it's other places as well, I guess. But content's going to be one hour later than normal because we are springing forward. So just kind of watch out for that. It should stay the same if you're in the UK because your clocks aren't changing. But over here, hours are. So that's the showdown situation. I actually have a quick guess at who our showdown might be today. There was a leaked NWSL showdown with Crystal Dunn. I think that might be the showdown we get today. Just a guess, but we'll have to see. But speaking of Sundays, we also see usually an icon or a hero, right? Speaking of trends, on Sundays we have either a new icon or a hero player pick. And last week was the icon. So this week, will EA continue the trend and give us a hero? Or will they break the trend and give us an icon once again? I kind of hope they break the trend to be completely honest. With the 83x10 that is out, the player picks still being out for another day. I would be super down for another icon pick. I know a lot of you guys like the icon picks over the hero picks. The one thing they could do today is release a hero pick that doesn't include the base heroes. And if they do that, that might actually be a halfway decent hero pick. We'll have to see. So watch out for that. I think something along those lines will come today too. And then of course, you think about icon SBCs. We had the Jarzinio Yeshin, right? Yeshin is still leaked. It is very possible that he could be coming as an SBC today or sometime very soon. So I'm just kind of thinking of all the SBCs that are possible. The Daily Showdown is guaranteed. Some sort of gamble pack today via an icon or a hero player pick is expected, almost guaranteed. And then a card like Yeshin is possible, but really unknown. Now, also what's happening today, we have to talk about this from action yesterday to is the fantasy cards, the upgrades and the games that were played yesterday. And these cards are moving a lot on the market. Once again, the biggest surprise of yesterday 100% was Bayern scoring eight goals. Now I'm on the lucky side of this because I have literally this delict card in my ultimate team. And he is getting a plus two this Wednesday, right? All the upgrades from this weekend's games happened this coming Wednesday. They got their second win and they scored so many goals that they have one game left Bayern does for this delict card. And he could still get a clean sheet. And with one more appearance, he would go to a fully upgraded, he would go a plus four, go to a 93 rated card, which would be bananas. But he's going to go to a 91 on Wednesday, leads a Raozu getting upgraded as well. There were plenty of cards yesterday that are getting upgrades. And there's plenty more today. The one thing that I will tell you is sell into the hype. Schalhander glue, right? He actually is getting an upgrade. He was 200,000 coins before the game kicked off. He went down all the way to 120. He's now 134. Lacazette's even getting an upgrade. He didn't even play, but he dropped off a bunch. He's 215K who else dropped off yesterday. Lehmelu, they didn't perform that great, but he did play. He's still 28,000 coins. And a lot of these, if you invested for a fodder side of things, you can keep holding for the longer haul. But if you invested for maybe a quick upgrade this weekend, a lot of the prices stayed the same and went down. Motsen, Dortmund got their wins. So he's getting an upgrade to an 89, but he's actually down a little bit before the game. He was 49K. So selling in the hype is always a safe play. Be careful with Pedro Poro today. This is a situation where he needs to play. If somehow he doesn't play or if Spurs do not play well, this card could drop. Even though it's a really good investment, in my opinion, still, he needs to play today for this to maintain to be a good investment. And of course, they still have three matches remaining. So just keep it close on these cards. I sold my Molinas yesterday during the Atlético Madrid game. Orban was a good one, right? Orban and Leipzig, he is going to get himself an upgrade. This Wednesday is going to go to an 89 rated card. So I'm glad that I held on to a couple of those that I picked up in the low 30K range. And he's still one game away or one appearance away, two games away from getting another upgrade. So he could still go to a 91 rated card. You're still going to have to wait on that. So just be careful with the fantasies. Know the reason why you're investing. A lot of, for me, I was investing for the quick flips. So I sold most of those cards yesterday, took some decent profits on Mattson and a couple of those. But on some others like Aspas, I am still holding. And a couple of other cards that I have too, I'm still holding on to these that got this at like 30,000 coins. And he's probably going to go up to like hopefully a 91 rated card when he'll be like 55, 60 K and we'll make some good coins there. So selling in the hype is always a safe play. But watch out for those fantasy cards because they will be moving once again today. And the last thing I'm going to say is just continue to keep an eye on the market. All right, continue if you're especially if you're somebody who has got these cards team of the year is tradable in your teams. I mean, we saw like, wow, friend pong 4.2 milli, down down just a little bit, still right around 4.2 mil. But I'm starting to see again, not just on team of the years, I'm using these as an example, because I do believe they're going to drop. But you know, just a few of these cards have started to drop off. Wendy Renard was 2.6 mil on Thursday. She's now 2.2. Probably Akanshi's hurt her price for sure. But that's just something to be careful on. We are in that stage of March, we're heading into her birthday. It's such a massive promo. You're going to want to be careful. There are coins that are being drained right now off of the market through store packs, through SBCs, all that stuff. Be careful with those really, really expensive cards. And with these rerelease cards to like we said yesterday, it's kind of correct in the market in some areas as well. So good times to trade good times to flip on out of pack specials. Just don't get stuck with anything too crazy. Because the next couple of weeks might get interesting. Hopefully for birthday is a massive W. But until we get there, we're getting the daily showdowns. Hopefully some other spicy Sunday content today to get us a little excited about what's to come and to grind in this game. At least the menu craft is still here. That's what I want to end off the video by saying. I know that a lot of the hype for the gameplay and all that's not the best. But the fact that I have not spent a dime on Akanshi and that I can go and craft this through the exchanges, through the 83 times 10s, through the 81 plus player pick, the menu grind right now is fantastic, right? It is still good because of this player being here. Once this goes away, we need another one to come back. Hopefully the 80 plus, but that's that's holding the menus together right now is the crafting and all the packs and objectives to that you can get. It's a W. So enjoy that menu craft guys. And hopefully today we get a couple more player sbcs that we get excited about to craft for upcoming upgrades or showdown games. If you're excited for that, drop a thumbs up on the video today. Drop a comment down below of what you're enjoying on this game right now. Maybe it's not anything at all and you're just watching the videos stay up to date. That's fine too. Drop a comment down below and subscribe to the channel. If you're new, happy Sunday guys. Enjoy your Sundays and I will see you guys hopefully in a stream today. That links down below in the description. I'll catch you guys there. It's been Nathan with Accounting. Peace out.