 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is Sunday on FIVA 22 inside of Team of the Group Stage and that means since we didn't have it yesterday, we are expecting today a mini release of some extra Team of the Group Stage cards that should be put into packs today, right? That's a new thing that EA's been doing just about every single promo this year is doing a mini release to try to keep the cards and packs fresh, I guess, and to add some new things in maybe to get some people to open a few more packs on the latter parts of the weekend. So I want to talk about the mini release of cards we could be seeing today, content we could see today on Sunday, as well as this big time showdown SBCs, the two SBCs that we saw yesterday, right? We talked about them, we knew they were going to be coming and they impacted the market a lot. A lot of center backs are down in price because people sold the center backs they had to go do this SBC. So I want to talk about that market impact, the way that fodder is going, and lightning rounds, which I'm going to start off by talking about lightning rounds as we get into the stuff that's in packs, because even right now, I mean, again, last night when I was recording the YouTube video, they did this as well and there's 100,000 coin ultimate, 100,000 coin, not ultimate packs, that's the 125s. The 100K lightning rounds are going on at 4am, or 4, 3am UK time, whatever it is, 10pm Eastern right now. They did this last night as well. So it seems like EA this year at FIFA 22 has a new schedule for lightning rounds and when they drop these packs into the store on a promo weekend, right? This is again the first weekend after Black Friday. So we're kind of getting a sense for how they're going to be releasing these lightning rounds. I believe that on Saturday, they released lightning rounds at 12pm UK, which is also a really random time. But if you're EA, I mean, or I guess if you're a consumer and you're thinking about the way that EA runs this game, it makes sense, right? They put out more lightning rounds, they know that people love those. And as you can see, right, the number that is right over here, the community limit, the number on these packs is it's going down slowly, but people are buying them, right? So people love lightning rounds and EA knows they can make a few extra bucks, you know, off of those being released into the game. So I expect to see more lightning rounds today on Sunday. That's another thing that I do think these team of group stage cards are going to get more supplied. Now, again, the pack weight is very low from what we were surprised to see that it was for sure early this weekend. And then the pack weight really has not changed December 3rd as of 6pm GMT. So still 2.8% out of 100k pack that is not changed at all. The pack weight is down, for sure, from what we thought it was going to be. But that is not going to stop EA from releasing more cards into packs and more lightning rounds. I 100% expect the 50k, 100k, 125 and maybe even the 85 plus star pack lightning rounds again today on Sunday. There's going to be some more pack supply, of course. And that's going to be highlighted by a mini release. Now, these are not official card stats that are being released and put into the game today. But these are the players that we expect to see. Bruno Fernandez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Antony and Toko Akambi. Some very interesting items, of course, with Bruno and Trent being the biggest two names. But Antony, of course, with those arid and busy links to the Holler SBC, to the Gravenberge Road to the Knockouts card, even Toko Akambi's item looks pretty dope for a left wing in the League 1. Nothing insane, right? But a cheap item that looks usable at the very least with some pace. I do expect to see three to four cards, probably. I would expect it to be these four released today on this game. These are cards that were leaked previously that were not included in packs yet. So that is, I think that's like the biggest piece of content that we're really expecting today on Sunday, right? So other than that, what do we expect today on the game? You know, we've had two days in a row of player SBCs. I know that the Holler SBC is not that insane. We had Pique and Nicholas Suley yesterday. I don't know if we're going to have another player SBC today. We could, right? Sometimes they start off the weekend with three days in a row of SBCs. You know, this could potentially be a time where they could drop another team in the group stage, SBC, maybe for a conference league player. I feel like there's only one conference league card that has been released. It's Batim Batheim. I think it's the only conference league card that we have right now. So I don't know if we'll get another one of those today as an SBC or maybe even throughout the rest this week, but we could have another just kind of player SBC for a team of the group stage item potentially today as well. Now yesterday, along with the normal SBCs that we had with the Suley and the Pique, we had a 50K pack untradable, which is very intriguing that EA would drop an untradable 50,000 coin pack. Now this costs about 10K to do. If you have a few things in the club, makes it a little bit easier. But of course, people are paying crazy money to get this SBC done. A lot of the lower tier market went crazy yesterday, right? I mean, I saw people selling some like, you know, less than 81, 82 rated gold cards for like five, 6,000 coins as people going and doing this pack on this SBC. I think this was probably a very strategic move by EA, you know, trying to put out a 50K pack, you know, you know, getting some fodder into people's clubs, right? A 50K pack, that's going to have an what, an 83 or an 84 plus guaranteed? I think it's 83 inside of that 50K pack. And already people had opened a lot of saved up packs over the weekend with not a ton of insane SBCs out since a lot of the Black Friday SBCs expired. These PK and Sule SBCs, I think are being completed by a lot of people right now because there's really not too much else to do unless you did the moments duo or haven't done the moments duo or you're going to do Sebastian Holler. I guess there's a couple of play of the months and a couple icon SBCs that you could still do. But there's not any big SBCs right now that people really that most people would want to grind towards, right? A lot of people are maybe even saving fodder for the Vinny player of the month that is potentially coming later on this next week. But I think that what EA did with these two SBCs, it was perfect timing because they knew that people have some fodder in the club. I myself, I've got some extra SBC fodder in the club usable to put into these types of SBCs and they made these two SBCs very interesting because these are two cards and right when I heard the leaks about Sule and PK, I knew that EA was going to juice these cards up decently well and make them at least interesting to think about because how often do you get to use Nicholas Sule or even Jared PK in FIFA, right? PK is again famous for the scream SBC in FIFA 20 and this card does look decent but it's not insane. It's just good enough for people, especially if you think about the potential upgrade these cards could get. I think for Sule the upgrade looks the best on this type of card, right? I think most people would expect Bayern to win as well, especially with Barcelona losing to Betis yesterday. It just seems like still Bayern, even if they rest a few players because they are like threw into the knockouts already confirmed and they've won three games already, the last three games, right? The Sane card has already gotten upgraded plus one on the road to the knockout. So I think Sule is like the favorite to get the SBC upgrade. But again, that's how these cards work. If you guys did miss it, these showdown cards get upgraded by the winning team gets a plus two overall and if a draw were to happen both cards would get a plus one. So for the first showdown SBC of the year, it's kind of a W, right? These are out for the next couple of days. The SBC of course expires before the game so that you can't just wait to see who wins the game and then go do the SBC for the upgraded card. E is going to have a little FOMO basically kind of implemented here and if you want to do one of them or both of them, then you have to do it before the game is actually played. But again, the reception in the community, I just think that the way that the game is structured right now with people having some extra SBC fodder and SBC cards in their club, these cards at 130K for about both of them, right? 130, 140,000 coins for both of these items was pretty well received. You look at the thumbs up on both of these cards. Sule has a few more thumbs up than PK does. And if you look at the SBC upvotes, 75% upvote for PK and an 87% upvote on Nikola Sule. Now when you have, this is what I really want to talk about today is these cards impacted the market a lot and it wasn't really in the SBC fodder range, right? A lot of SBC cards didn't go up that much. 83 spiked for a quick minute and they're now back down to almost, you know, back under a thousand coins per card, just a little bit over. Same thing with 84s, right? 84 spiked in the moment as people went out and they did the PK and Sule and then you've seen fodder kind of chill back out with again, continual lightning rounds and supply coming onto the game yesterday. But where you really saw the biggest market impact from these cards was other centerbacks on the game. A lot of people sold centerbacks they had in their clubs to go out and to fund doing these SBCs. Now this is a two-fold thing, right? People are selling centerbacks, right? That's going to make a lot of other centerbacks on the game go down, which is exactly what we saw. But also if people are doing these SBCs and they're they're very, again, well received and a lot of people are doing them, then what's that also going to do? That's going to make complimentary links to these cards rise up. These are the number one and number two most popular cards that people are linking these new items to. Alfonso Davies, his gold card is doubled in price and this rule breakers item has basically doubled in price as well. And Ter Stegen for the links to PK, of course, this card has gone from like he was actually 75K on Friday. Now he's 140,000 coins. And to be completely honest with SBCs with such high demand like these two, these guys are probably going to just keep going up a little bit more as the hype is just all these SBC cards right now at the moment. So you've got a mixture of things happening, right? With SBCs like this and that's what I want to kind of break down today is let's say your center back that's in your team like let's say you had center back screener from this brand new promo that was out just a couple days ago signature signings, right? The signature signing screener went for about 160,000 coins. He's down 20K to like 145,000 coins, right? He is in a different league than both of these SBCs that were released. And you know, the key of any SBC is going to be going away. The screening are the signature stars cards, they were very supplied through the packs and the lighting rounds and stuff on Black Friday. So as you can see here, there's still some of these that are like first owner tradable. These are not in packs still, but some people still might have these in their club as they've just recently gone out of packs. But for some of these center backs that have dropped in price, there are going to be rises back in my opinion on the most meta ones, the most popular ones. What I'd be doing if, you know, as long as we don't have a huge market crash in the next couple of days, a great example of how this happened earlier on in this year was when they released the Gelson Martin's signature signings SBC, right? One of the other favorite right wings in Lee Gunn with great links and a lot of hype on hell de Maria, right? Numbers up de Maria. This guy went from he was actually about 230,000 coins or 220K when Gelson Martin's was released and he dropped all the way down to like 180,000 coins in price and look where he is now back up to 230,000 coins. So as I'm taking a look through the market right now, there's a lot of center backs that are down in value. Millie Tao is one of those in particular. I mean, this guy was like 545 K last week. I think right now he's like 480,000 coins, maybe even lower than that. This to me hasn't dropped that much 479. I mean, he's down like 30K. He's down like 30K, but there's 25,000 coins tax on that card. I know that he also links to PK and so people might be trying to use Millie Tao and PK together with the, you know, Terstegen card. I don't like that one as much. But as I look through some of the other cards that have dropped down in price, one that really catches my eye is Clostraman, right? Clostraman because this guy was like 170, 180,000 coins and he's literally dropped like 40K. He's 140,000 coins. Let's take a look at this graph, right? Now when the Suley SBC goes away, yes, people are still going to have that card in their club. They're still going to want to use that item, but he is no longer attainable, right? And yes, this guy was 180K. I remember seeing him at almost 180,000 coins. But yes, that he dropped from 160 down to 136. And he hit high of like 164. But I did, you know, this guy's really dropped off a lot, right? That's a pretty sizable drop off on a card. It is very popular for his links and for, again, this is a green link to the Nkunku card that is so popular this year in the game, German links in the Bundesliga as well. So this would be a card that if he would go back to 136, like that price that you saw there, people saw that was too low and he got bought back up a little bit. That's the kind of thing that I'd be looking for maybe even into this weekend a little bit further, as if the content isn't that insane or that crazy, you might see some of these centerbacks still maintain pretty low prices. Rutiger, right? Some of your Prem centerbacks, this could be a really, really good opportunity to get involved in a couple of them if they've dropped off enough. Rutiger went from 350, 360 down to 320. So if this were to go like 320 flat again, I would probably get interested in an Antonio Rutiger card. And then, you know, take like Upa Makano, where's Upa? 46,000 coins for an informed Upa Makano with the great links that he has and so popular of a card that he is. He was 60k, dropped all the way to 46 back to 48. You know, in the mid to low 40s for a card like this, I'm talking PlayStation prices at the moment, but like maybe even in 40k flat on Xbox, this would be a card that I would expect to bounce back a little bit because the Suley SBC, again, these SBCs are only out for a couple days. And after this, people are no longer going to be able to buy Bundesliga centerbacks. They're not going to be able to buy Suley, right? They're not going to be able to buy PK. So a lot of times what you see is stuff that gets panic sold because of an SBC, if it's still meta, if it is still popular, and people want to use it in their squads, they will still, that price will kind of rebound back up, especially if it's an out of packs card. But some other cards that dropped were actually a team of the group stage cards, right? Like the Marquinhos team of group stage dropped off, the Tiago Jalo dropped off a lot. I clicked on the wrong card. Where is Tiago Jalo? That's the one I wanted to see. He's back to 358 at the moment, but look at this card's fluctuation. Yesterday, he was 539k. Of course, people sold this card heading into 6pm. He was down at like 450. He actually was down at 350,000 coins, rose back to 416, and is now back in the 350-360 range. Now, this guy has been significantly overpriced, and there's going to be more supply on these cards today on Sunday, as we do have the squad battle rewards, and again, more lighting rounds and stuff like that being open today on this game. But that was a big drop, right? And even some of the icon centerbacks, some of the icon centerbacks have been down in price since these leaks came out that these SBCs were coming. Look at Rio. Rio was 790, like 800,000 coins. The leaks started coming out for Piquet. It's really on like Thursday and Friday. He's down at 700,000 coins flat, right? I think Baby Kanavaro has been impacted as well. 530k. Again, he was 600,000 coins on Thursday before these leaks started to come out. One more that I've seen as well has dropped off a lot is Baby Desai. Right? And it's crazy to, okay, Desai, no, he's still pretty low, right? Because he was 900k on Thursday. Now, he's down in the 780s and 790s. It's crazy to see some of these drops. He was 750 yesterday. Goodness me. That's crazy. So, centerbacks across this entire game are getting hurt right now in price because of these SBCs and because of the basically what you call supplementary goods, right? A new card has come onto the game that replaces an item that was formally very OP and very popular and very used. And people are now choosing the new item over the old one but this new item is only here for a certain amount of time. So, that's why I would just encourage you to watch around the centerback market a little bit on the game and try to find, you know, some of those icons even like the Kanavaro that's dropped off. I know their impacts, but they're icons, right? So, I do think that unless there's a huge market crash in the coming days, which unless EA pulls something out, you know, crazy content-wise, I don't really expect that to happen. Unless there's a huge market crash, I would expect to see some of those centerbacks, especially Premier League ones, you know, maybe like that Marquinhos inform. Some of the most popular and meta, again, it's all about the popularity and cards that people have used so much already in this game that are out of pack special cards in particular. I think you would see some of those bouncing back into the next week or so as the Sula and the PK hype kind of dies down a little bit. So, you maybe saw the peak of that panic selling on those centerbacks yesterday, right after they were released, like seeing this Tiago Jalo. I know he's in packs again at the moment, which is making his price go down a lot more. But for the out of packs ones, you maybe saw the peak of that panic. But if you see prices get really low again today on Sunday, that could be another opportunity to pick some of those centerbacks up as an investment or buy one for your team, maybe sell it later on this next week. So, I hope that helps out a lot kind of because that kind of movement on this market happens a ton, right? We try to explain things when they happen and as they happen. But you're going to see this happen time and time again on this game. You know, it's not just with showdown SBCs. Like again, we talked about the Gelson Martin's SBC, that impacted the market a lot. Anytime there's a good value SBC that is released, right? It's got to be good value because if people are not doing the SBC, then you're not going to have any of those market movements happening. But since these are two players that don't get used that often because they're not meta, EA made them meta. It's very interesting for a lot of people and you know, the price isn't half bad. People are crafting them with fodder they already have in their club. So, it's got some hype, right? And that's why you're seeing the movements happen on this game. I'm really just, I'm curious to see if EA has any other crazy content planned today on Sunday. There's really not any leaks, not any information that we hear or any cards or SBCs we're expecting. I'm just expecting the mini release and some more lighting rounds and some more packs. And yeah, the EA just kind of wants it to chill, I guess right now. They really don't want this market to crash. That is what it seems. So, if anything changes, of course, we'll be covering it and we'll be watching that very closely. But it just seems to be like a good market for a quick flipping at the moment, right? Especially with the center backs that have moved or any of those cards that link, right? Again, we talked about the Tersteg and we talked about the Alfonso Davies. Those cards could continue to go a little bit higher today. Potentially. I know they're up so much already. But again, if there's really not too much else going on, these cards are really rare and people are using and linking those new items with these cards. So again, they're up so much in price, but I mean, really, the only thing stopping them is EA dropping some more content and the gameplay demand like going down. So I honestly see like this Tersteg and maybe going up a little bit more today. You know, the Alfonso Davies may be going up a little bit more. So keep an eye on some of that stuff as well. The links to Suley and Piguet will be very interesting for a slight rise again today on this game. I think Upgrade Packs will be tomorrow and then more content team in the group stage may be wrote to the knockout related later on this week. So that is the video for today, boys. All right. If you did enjoy, make sure to hit a thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It has been Nathan Ford Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.