 Hey guys, this is Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Continuing our team of the season so far, preparation series on the channel today. Today's a big one. We're talking about two areas of the market that a lot of people are very interested in with team of the season coming, prices being low and when to buy these cards, what to look out for, can you invest in these cards, stuff like that. Today we're talking about team of the season cards and we're talking about icons of all nature, base, middle, prime and moments. I have some interesting things that I think are gonna happen with these cards this year because it's different, right? In past years, the middle and the baby versions have never been out of packs, so that's interesting. But also, I wanna talk about team of the season cards, when you can buy them, when you can look to find them on the cheapest each week because last year it was copy-paste every single week. They were the cheapest on this one day and then they were the most expensive at the end of the week because it all revolved around the guaranteed team of the season SBC. So we're gonna talk about that today as well. We're gonna kinda split it up into two segments. I'm gonna talk about team of the season cards first and then I'm gonna talk about icons second. So I know there's gonna be a lot more talk about the TOTS cards, so I do wanna cover that. But I might spend a little bit less time talking about those, at least at the beginning because we kinda have to wait and see what EA wants to do with the guaranteed packs before we really figure out what's gonna happen with these cards. But this is the prem team of the season from last year. A lot of you guys are gonna wonder, hey, I want one of these guys for my team. When is gonna be the best time to buy them because it's obviously when they are in packs because again, team of the season, there's so much hype for these cards, man. Even for some of these guys that were in team of the season most consistent, right? Some of the most hyped up cards all year because their team of the season, they have juiced stats and even from this Friday, when most consistent comes out, these cards are going to rise out of packs. As you can see here, we're looking at Tellez, Allen, Wambasaka. The Suley card was like the big boy from last year. This was a card last year that just absolutely boomed out of packs and we'll talk about why in this video as well. And I also wanna talk about the SBC fodder level because last year in FIFA 19, people thought it was gonna be like FIFA 18 where we had a lot of guys boom in price because of SBC requirements. I mean, they did require team of the season cards in the guaranteed team of the season SBCs but not for the lower league. So these guys were so heavily supplied and there were more and more leagues that came after heavily supplying Todd's cards on the market. So it really didn't cause these team of the season, you know, lower tier or what you would call SBC fodder team of the season cards. They never really rose like they did in FIFA 18 when they were in team of the season. So we'll talk about that first of all, right? This is Reese James. And if you go back and you take a look at like Todd's most consistent and Todd's EFL, a lot of people invested in these cards last year because they thought they would rise when the guaranteed SBCs came and you can look and see what happened, right? People bought these cards up into the midweek, Monday comes and they just continue to fall as nobody really needs them for SBCs, right? A lot of people, you know, they stay, they maintain a price a week one because, you know, they're the only team of the season cards out there, but people start to rack up on tradable team of the seasons. They pack them for upgrade packs, they pack them in rewards. They get them from the lower level league team of the season guaranteed SBC, which were so cheap, it was basically just giving out a team of the season card from that lower league that was in packs. And that's why you saw these cards never really rise on the market. It could be different this year because of course there's so much demand for these guaranteed SBCs, but we're really gonna have to monitor that situation as it goes. Now this is the one really, really scummy thing that EA did last year with these cards. They had a minimum price range of like 19,500 coins for a lot of these team in the seasons. What EA did during the second or third week of TOTS is they lowered that to 10K. So there were people that were buying loads of these cards at discard because they thought, hey, you know what? A right back English decent stats. You know, this guy might go up at some point, right? And they lowered the minimum price to 10K and people lost a ton of coins on some of these cards. So in my opinion, I don't wanna touch any of these low tier guaranteed. I don't wanna touch any of these like SBC fighter team of the season cards right off the bat unless we see something different start to form and then we'll look ahead and start to talk about it. But the most important thing is a lot of you guys wanna know when do I buy these cards if I wanna try them out, right? The team of the season, this is the fluctuation. This is why I don't feel like I have to talk about it a ton because literally if you go back and look through these FIFA 19 team in the season squads, it's literally for the top league, right? Bundesliga this week, La Liga this week. The major league that came out every single week, the trend was basically the exact same every single week of when these cards were the cheapest in that week, right? So Sule came out with team of the season most consistent and he was the cheapest on Monday and Tuesday because the guaranteed team of the season SBC for the major league came out on Monday, without fail every single week. So we had Monday, most consistent. The next Monday we had Premier League because that was the next league. And when the guaranteed SBC comes out, what happens is people panic sell coming out of the weekend because they try the card like sweet. All right, I wanna go try some other cards and they know that probably a guaranteed SBC is coming. That's gonna be the case again this year. So we're gonna have to watch and see if EA does the guaranteed team of the season SBC on a Monday or a Tuesday, you're gonna see some of your lowest prices during that time period. Honestly, it was really good for the market last year what EA did, making that SBC on a Monday because you have the weekend league sell off. Everybody's playing a full weekend of games because they wanna try to get the best rank possible to get the best rewards and possibly get better picks and better packs and stuff because all of these cards are in packs. So you have the sell off really extends into Sunday when usually it would start in kind of Saturday because people would quit weekend league early. And then on Monday, people knew the guaranteed SBC was coming. So this stuff would just get panic sold and because people for some reason think, and we've seen it this year already with the party bag SBCs, is people think that they're gonna pack one of these really high level cards from the set. They think that since they have it in their club, they're gonna pack it. They think the price is gonna go down because EA is giving them out. When in reality, everybody is packing the low tier guys that are in that team of the season, right? You don't have as many people packing the high tier and the reward is untradable. So it's not putting supply onto the market, which then these prices rebound from. And we've seen this a million times in FIFA already this year with like guaranteed party bag SBCs, guaranteed SBCs of all types. You see a panic sell and a crash and then a rebound. And it's gonna happen with these cards this year as well. So whenever that guaranteed SBC is, when you see the panic selling and when you see that drop off, right? Look what happened from Sunday, Tela's was 380 on PlayStation to Monday. My guy was 335,000 coins. You go to Tuesday, he goes back up to 348 Wednesday. And then after rewards into the weekend, my guy on Saturday hits 410K. So he almost goes up about 80,000 coins. Then the next week he goes even higher with the links of this card being one of the best left backs, Brazilian left back. There's a continued hype there. The next weekend he hits 456K. So a 130,000 coin spike from that first week when he was in packs. Now not all cards rise, right? This Allen card last year was very popular. It did hit its lowest point in packs. And he did rise up out of the weekend league, but really not a much, right? When you see a card here that rises up, you know, 40, 50,000 coins, but then you see a Nicholas Suley go from 140K to two and a half weeks later being 300,000 coins, you're like, hold the phone. How do I figure out who this guy is gonna be this year? The reason why Suley went up so much and EA made sure that we weren't gonna have this problem this year was there was a lack of center backs in the Bundesliga, all right? The lack of center backs in the Bundesliga. So again, he is cheapest on Monday, right? He kind of chilled around that price. And then he went shooting up for the weekend league. He actually got sold off. And I'll talk about this a little bit too, because people thought last year they weren't sure if the team of the season most consistent cards that were from a major top five league, if they were gonna get put into the league team of the season squad as well. So people thought that since Suley was in most consistent, he also might be in team of the season Bundesliga, which he wasn't. He was not back in packs. And as you can see when Bundesliga came out, this man absolutely flew because there were more people building Bundesliga squads. And this was one of the only Bundesliga center backs that would link nicely with the Bayern Munich links, the German links in their squads with the new German, with the new Bundesliga team of the season. So we don't have a lack of Bundesliga center backs this year, but who could this happen with? You know, Italian, Syria, right backs could be a possibility. It all depends on who actually gets in to team and season most consistent. We'll look at that situation, see if we have any players that get in, where they juice the stats or whatever. But again, Monday is kind of the lowest time for a lot of these cards. Even a lower tier guy, right? Wabasaka was part of most consistent. He was his cheapest on Monday as well. He stayed low because people thought he might get included with the Prem Squad. Boom, he's not in the Prem Squad on Friday. He immediately jumps up 30,000 coins into the weekend and just continues to stay high as a Pacey English right back in team of the season. So if you go back and you look through all of these cards, I've only looked at most consistent, but I can show you all of these two, right? Premier League, right? Trent Alexander-Arnold, look at this dip, bro. He hits his lowest on Monday and Tuesday, he's 560K on Monday, and the dude two weeks later is 700,000 points. Demir Bey, right? A center mid from the Bundesliga. Not the most hype card, but this is like a juiced statistical version of a beast card. And look how much this guy costs, man. 230K instantly booms up to almost 300,000 coins after that. Another one, Danny DeCosta, right? Only 300 and 30,000 coins goes up to almost 380. So that's a nice weekend rise. And then the top tier cards, if it's a big, like, Havertz had so much hype last year because of the four star skills and the five star weak foot and just the crazy stats that his card had in the major boost in stats that even his future star was a really insane card, but they juiced him incredibly on his team this season. And look what this does, man, 2.2 million coins all the way up to 2.6 million coins two days later. So you're gonna see rises like that this year in this game on foot. I'm promising you right now, you're going to see it. Now you're gonna have to decide who it's gonna be. A lot of the cards did that. I didn't look at all the graphs, right? But for most leagues, if you go back to the FIFA 19 team of the weeks on foot then and look through those leagues, that's what you're gonna see. You're gonna see Monday was the cheapest because that was when they had the guaranteed SBC come out. There was panic selling on that day because people thought prices would drop and then a rebound after that. So we're gonna have to figure out what they wanna do this year with the guaranteed SBCs. But once we have that figured out, we're gonna be able to make coins weekly and also try out those cards and have fun with them in our teams. So that's the team of the season portion of the video. We'll cover a lot of that stuff later in the coming weeks as we figure out what EA is gonna do with these guaranteed SBCs. But let's talk about icons because this is another situation this year where we have out-of-packs cards and we've seen these cards rise already in foot. We've seen many of them just get incredibly increased in price because of them being out-of-packs. And this baby Blanc is an A1 example. I'm gonna look them up on Footbin right now and I'm also gonna look up Baby Eusebio because we talked about this stuff during team of the year and during kind of like the end of Footmas beginning of team of the year when we had a panic selling on some of these out-of-packs baby icons because they went out of packs in December and we saw them getting panic sold headed into team of the year. Baby Eusebio, right? 3.7 million coins for arguably one of the best players in the game Baby Eusebio, 3.7 million coins down here at the startup team of the year ends up being 5.1 million earlier last week. Again, crazy, crazy inflation in price and the out-of-packs nature of these cards really justified that. Baby Blanc, 623,000 coins. My guy's back up at 900K a week later. Last week he was even 822K. He was 650 earlier this week. Right now it shows he's 700 on the PlayStation. Maybe we'll find, yeah, there's one in 695 some of these guys have rebounded already but the biggest thing with these baby and the middle icons are, I think they're going to rise, especially if they're meta, right? So many coins are injected onto this market during team of the season with the rewards that we're, today we figured out we're getting the team of the season cards in rewards. That's huge for this game. But I think that especially a few cards are gonna be boomers out-of-packs. And I also think there's gonna be a plethora of prime and moments icons that are actually going to rise during team of the season. Now, I know that seems crazy because they're in-packs still for the prime and the prime moments and that means they're continually getting supplied. But some of these cards are not gonna be able to withstand the demand because these are still crazy rare cards. Moments, Ronaldinho. I mean, there's four of them on the market right now. If we look at a guy like Moments Rio we've got probably like, you know just a handful on the market. A lot of these guys, when you go and look at them even some of the baby icons now how many pages of Blanc do we have? I think I went and looked at the market for Blanc just a couple of minutes ago before I started recording this and there's like no supply for a baby Blanc card. He had multiple pages of supply earlier in this year and now he's only got two, barely even two pages of supply for this type of card. This is a card that I could see going crazy high back over 800,000 coins after Team of the Season starts ramping up. You just kinda, how do you find those cards that are really gonna go up? Especially in a market where Team of the Season cards are gonna have better stats than some of these icons. But icons are still a huge part of this game. You have to look for drastic price differences and position changes, right? This is the cheapest version of R9 Ronaldo. He's two million coins right now, just under two mil. The next highest version is mid R9 and he's like 6.7 mil. If somebody wants to play with Ronaldo in this game during Team of the Season, either they're paying six mil for this guy or they're paying two mil for the baby. I think baby Ronaldo gets back to 2.5 mil at some point in a couple of weeks after Team of the Season. Again, there's no supply, there is a lot of demand for an icon like that, for an icon striker, big name, player, meta fits this game. I think you're gonna see a rise. Another example right of a position change is Carlos Alberto. This is a dude that rose a lot after Team of the Year as well for the position change center back version of his card. And also that this card is just insane, right? You always need Brazilian center backs. We might get a Telez Team of the Season, right? You might need to link your Telez with your Allison Team of the Season that could come out with your Van Dyke. So you might need some extra links to Brazilian left mid, right mid. Brazil is a big, or left back, right back. Brazil is a big nationality in this game for linking. So having a guy like Carlos Alberto as a position change center back, I think a lot of people are gonna end up using this card and I think it's gonna spike again. But I think most icons are going to actually rise up from the middle and the baby range, even this Macalely, right? If it's meta, it will rise. I was looking through a lot of graphs from last year for the moments cards, for the baby cards, even some of the babies and middles last year that were pretty meta cards actually rose during Team of the Season just due to the sheer amount of hype. Now it wasn't a massive rise, right? But here, look at this. We have a middle George Best, who by the time Team of the Season comes around, right? This is just an okay card. Middle George Best, right at the beginning of Tots, 596K on the PlayStation, right? Two weeks into Team of the Season, he's up to 693,000 coins. So the dude went up about 100K in two weeks during Team of the Season. And yes, his price does fall back off after that as the game starts to go downwards. You know, the hype kind of dies. But again, as I keep talking about this higher tier market it's going to get a lot of coins. Last year, we even had icon SBCs. Like this Blanc had an icon SBC. Look what happened during May. Start-up Team of the Season, 925,000 coins. Remember, French center back. A lot of French links are needed last year in foot and even this year in foot too. So many French cards that they've been putting out. Starts at 925 at the beginning of Team of the Season, ends up hitting 1.2 million coins and is up over 150, 200,000 coins two weeks after Team of the Season starts. So I think you're going to see rises like that and on the top, upper-tipity top tier of icons. We had rises as well. Now on Xbox, it's really hard to tell with this graph because Moments Real was like a dinosaur there. But with PlayStation last year, he was actually consistently on the market so we can follow this blue line. Start-up Team of the Season, actually during the first lighting rounds of Team of the Season, he takes a hit down in price. He goes from about 9 million on PlayStation down to 8 mil flats or 8.3. And right before Prem Tots, 8.1 mil right there. And then after Premier League Team of the Season, this guy just starts to rebound. He goes from 8.1 mil on the PlayStation all the way back up to 10 million coins during Team of the Season. So some of the guys like a hullet or like this year, I think that kind of price is, that's going to be Ronaldinho. I think last year's hullet graph that we just looked at, this Dino card with the position change with the dynamic image and with just how meta this card is in game, I would not be surprised if this Ronaldinho card goes back over to 10 million coins. I would not be surprised at all. Now some of these cards, it's really tough to tell, right? Because you're like, okay, these icons, people have coins now, they're willing to splash the cash on these. But there's a guy like a baby Eusebio who has been extinct, not baby. Moments Eusebio who has been extinct for a long time in this game this year. But now has had multiple pages on the market. This guy's been like 12 mil in the past week. What's this guy going to do? Is he going to be 15 million coins again? To be honest, I would not be super surprised if he did get back up close to 13, 14, 15 million coins and actually sell there. At least for this week, I mean, I'm pretty sure Eusebio has been in the 11s and 12s. I don't watch this card that much, but I'm sure he's been there. It looks like he's been 13 mil most of the day today. But this is the type of card that once people open their team in the season rewards multiple weeks in a row, it's just going to start causing inflation. People are going to be able to afford these cards again. So I do think you're going to see an uptick in basically all icons in this game. If it's meta and if it's usable, especially for the mid and the baby versions, I do think you're going to see these go up. Baby Blanc, right? This is a Blanc centerback card. People love this centerback card game. This guy could easily be $900,000 coins in a couple weeks just because of the French links that are needed in this game. And the icon, you know, just the icons have like a different feel in FIFA, man. They really, really do moments cards as well, bro. Blanc, Ferdinand, any moments card that is really meta because a lot of moments this year have massive upgrades, right? Even a guy like moments rush who has caught a lot of hype this year for his massive upgrade over the prime. This guy, this might be a dude who continues to drop a little bit this week. You see some undercuts during lightning rounds and then you see them sky. So I think if you want any of these icons for your team, you need to get acting quickly in these next few days. Or be on the lookout for undercuts and snipes when packs are opened this weekend during most consistent team of the season. Or if you wanna wait a little bit longer, you can maybe wait until prem tots when we have lightning rounds and a bunch of packs open then. But if you wait too much longer after prem tots, I think these guys are gonna start going upwards in price because icon moments this year are just on another level compared to last year. And I think they're really meta ones. The ones that you see in a lot of guys' teams and they're very, very popular icons are gonna start to rise up and they're gonna rise up quickly, especially those baby and mid cards just because they're very rare on the market and they're still very usable and still very applicable in this game. And since they have no more supply, I really like these cards rising during team of the season. I really do, because a lot of these icons maintain demand even though we're gonna have team of the season cards with better statistics. The icon links and just the icon, like just that card in FIFA always draws people in. So that's how I feel about icons. Get them early. Look for snipes during lightning rounds if it's an impacts prime or icon moments. If it's a baby card, try to catch them on the weekend, we sell off this weekend. If there is any open bids, get on some of those late nights and just look for undercuts on those because you might not see much because any supply or downturn in price on those is gonna have to be supply driven, not because those cards are getting packed, but from a weekend league sell off sort of thing because these cards are not impacts and that's a first this year for FUT. So I think you might see a big rise on those. Hopefully you enjoyed this video today, right? Lots of information. I feel like I was talking the whole time, which, you know, this is a YouTube video. So I am talking the whole time, but I feel like I talked a lot in this one. Hopefully you were able to absorb the knowledge and we will be covering this stuff on the dot as it happens every single day during team of the season as well. So not just now, I'm not gonna stop after this, we'll be watching these cards very closely during team of the season as well, but those are my thoughts on Tots cards and icons for team of the season and if you guys are looking to buy them, that should give you some insight as we get into most consistent team of the season coming tomorrow. So if you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant, catch you guys later, peace, out.