 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant, and welcome back to the channel. EA Sports has begun the team of the year hype with what they tweeted yesterday and consequently what we are going to see today on FIFA 23. We are gonna today start to see the nominees for who we as the community will be voting on to be the team of the year in FIFA 23. So I wanna talk about that and of course how it has got our team of the year hype starting to build, especially with people starting to sell cards on the market. Is the market crashing right now? I think the answer to that is no, but you've seen some prices start to drop like this gold and Bapay as players have started to just slowly sell some cards out of their teams. Will that continue today or will we have an opportunity maybe to make some coins with a normal Monday rewards market rise? We'll talk about that and with the SBCs and specifically for the upgrade packs, we had a gold upgrade pack yesterday, an 80 plus upgrade that EA dropped. I don't know if this is our weekly upgrade pack, so I'll talk about that situation because it is kind of interesting. It's out for 89 days, kind of cool, kind of different as well, but will we see another gamble pack today? Whether it's a hero player pick, an icon player pick again, or some sort of upgrade pack, I do think we're gonna get something today and we're gonna talk about that in this video and especially since yesterday's content was not that great, SBC fodder prices are down a little bit as I'm talking about this stuff and as we're looking at prices right now and that's what I wanna talk about in the video because we might be able to invest before today's content. So if you're excited for today, hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's talk about Team of the Year. This is the tweet they put out yesterday, kind of a surprise, right? We weren't expecting any news until the 10th, but I went back and look at last year. This is literally a carbon copy of what they did last year. The day before they put the nominees out, they said, hey, we're going to reveal them tomorrow like they did yesterday. They said, hey, we're gonna show you the 100 Team of the Year nominees tomorrow. Now the voting does not start until the 10th, which actually is tomorrow, right? But we're gonna see these today, right? They tweeted this out yesterday and inside of this little video that they created here, they showed this car design, which is the nominees kind of car design that they will use. Official car design is right here, right? That's the full-size car design and it might look really familiar to you because this is most likely the car design they will show these cards on, but the real question is now and a lot of people have been asking this, are these cards going to be in the game today? Because a couple years ago in FIFA 21, they dropped basically the Team of the Year nominee cards with plus one upgrades on their gold versions and they put them in packs. I don't believe that's gonna be the case because I think they learned from that that one year and they maybe didn't like what happened because of it and it really crashed the market. So I mean, that is a theory for today, but I really feel like this car design is gonna end up being the honorable mentions car design and it'll just be what EA kind of show and use as like a placeholder card. Of course, this is not the official Team of the Year car design. The real one looks way better, way cooler. So this is just kind of one I think they'll use to kind of showcase the cards that are being voted on and showcase those players. This is the exact same thing they did last year, right? They tweeted out a picture and said, attackers are gonna be revealed tomorrow. Now, of course, this year for us, they're showing us all 100 nominees. So that's cool. There's no like splitting it up between the days or whatever. But one thing they also did was they created a loading screen and they put all of the nominees on a loading screen. So this created some panic. I remember a little bit last year because people were like, oh my goodness, are these cards in the game right now? And I don't believe that the nominees like we've been talking about, that's the biggest question. I don't believe that nominees will be in packs today. Now, the only thing that would maybe give us a hint on if they're gonna be in packs anytime soon or not is if you search here in the store, a lot of times on Fridays before we start a promo, you can see a new car design here in the store. And as I look through here, I do not see anything related to team of the year nominees, team of the year, nothing of that sort. So that to me means that today we are just going to be getting a list of 100 team of the year players and we will not be able to vote until tomorrow, but we'll be able to see those players who are in the vote today. So EA, they always do this. They kind of milk it, right? They kind of show you a little bit. They tease you a little bit. And then of course it's a couple of days later then you actually get to vote or you actually get to see the cars and stuff like that. Team of the year, there's a lot of build up, a lot of hype because it's team of the year, right? Some of the best cards that we see all year long. So I don't think they're gonna be in the game today. A lot of people were speculating about that. I mean, there's a slight potential chance for that, but I really think it's just gonna be, EA is gonna tweet it out, probably two hours before content. That's what they did earlier yesterday. That's kind of the timeframe. And you know, that is starting to drive some of the selling on the market, like we talked about, right? We've seen some slight drops around the market. And namely, I look at a guy like Golden Boppa who was 840,000 coins yesterday. He is now nearing 800K. And this could just be a little bit of weakening sell-off. But I really think it's coupled with this announcement from yesterday, right? He was 830, 840, and just kind of started to slowly drop since then yesterday's content. We did have a couple of lighting rounds. So technically you could say that maybe he just got supplied, but dropping down about 40,000 coins, 35K in one day. I mean, I think this is people starting to sell off a few cards from their teams. Now, the rest of the market, you know, it's doing pretty fine. Nothing was really like, the panic has not really started. The market crash, I would say, is not here. You just have a couple of cards that have started to drop a decent amount. Now, some of those cards that have dropped the most are some of your most of meta and top tier cards. And we didn't talk about this in yesterday's video, but there was a big pro tournament over the weekend. And a lot of these guys that have these big top tier cards that were very expensive, right? Mbappe was 5.4 million coins on Saturday. Just a couple days ago, 5.4 mil. Look at what happened to his card price since then. He went from 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 actually on Saturday. And right now he is 4.5 million coins. A lot of top tier cards have dropped off in price considerably as a lot of people that own those are selling those off because that big event is over and they wanna get those cards out of their club before Team of the Year. And again, like I said, this is basically, the switch is probably gonna start to flip in the next couple of days, where you see some of these cards that people will want to sell before Team of the Year start to keep slowly dropping. Look at Griezmann, right? Griezmann was 6.35 yesterday. The news broke, he just slowly started to drop down. Right now he's just below 600,000 coins for that path to go to Griezmann card. So that's, oh, Lucio, 6.57. That's a pretty big price drop, right? This is another card that might be down a little bit extra because of it being a pro tier, pro level card. And you know, you can see he was like 6.80 yesterday. On Saturday he was above 700K. So he's starting to go down a little bit. This World Cup heroes Lucio's not down that much. That's a very interesting price to me. We're gonna have to go check that out. But that's kind of the pulse of the market right now is the prices are just slowly starting to drop on the meta market. And another, I could show you so many examples of cards in here that are just down like a decent amount, not down a ton, but just starting to drop in price. And I think you're gonna continue to see that. And what this really is at the start of, like we said is, it's the start of people not wanting to probably go out and buy as many cards. Could there still be fluctuations on the market? Absolutely, I'm definitely taking a look at cards today that I think could maybe have a slight rise. Look at this Neymar, man, 1.95, it's pretty crazy. I think there's some cards today that can have a slight rise into the content drop. And I still think we have a potential to make coins, but I am gonna start being a lot more cautious and a lot more careful because what do we know about crashes and about when people are expecting big promos and when people kind of stop wanting to buy cards for teams, a lot of the demand drops. And that is just where you get into trouble with trying to trade and quick flip cards or even own cards in your team. You're just gonna start to see a lot of prices kind of fall. So that's kind of what we're starting to get into that zone. But I still think today with rewards people get coins, they wanna go out, they wanna buy cards and try stuff out, right? I think these Centurions are a very interesting watch today in the market. I mean, I'm definitely interested in flipping a couple of these. I know that their impacts, but these are the cards that people are wanting to try out because they're brand new and they're hyped. And two days in a row now for some of these guys, they have actually risen up from the nighttime into the morning, which is kind of crazy. I know Trent yesterday was like 212, he went up to 220 and he's still right now about like 212, 210. But a lot of these cards have been still in pretty high demand. And a lot of them didn't drop off crazy amounts yesterday because of the news, the team of the year voting and stuff and the nominees being released. So I'm very interested with these cards because I feel like they are very casual friendly cards as well. And one thing that I'm noticing with the market right now too is a lot of these lower tier kind of not cheap cards, but cards that are under a couple hundred thousand points, I really feel like the new user base of players that have come on to FIFA because of the holidays, people that maybe got the game for Christmas or got it on sale for Christmas that are joining the game and getting on it for the first time and building their squads. There's a lot of fresh hype around the game. And I still think there's a lot of gameplay demand there for a lot of people that that's what's kind of holding this market up, especially as we see the lower tier of cards continue to rise slowly and slowly throughout the last couple of weeks since Christmas. And I feel like there's still demand there. So that's where I'm trying to focus my efforts today, right? I'll go ahead and tell you guys one thing that I bought that Jamie Vardy there for like 98K. I have a couple of those. I have a couple of the Chesney for like 50,000 coins as well because there's been the Polatano and there's still Syria hype. A lot of people have the DeMaria SBC that was out from when the World Cup ended. So I picked up a couple of these at 50K and under hoping that we can maybe sell them on today for like, I don't know, 57 to 58K. It's gonna be small flips like that. But if you do them in quantity, then you'll probably be able to make some good coins during this period. But again, the overall pulse of the market is we're gonna still try to do some quick flips, but we're gonna be very careful with it and stick to either really rare cards that are a bit more expensive or try to just stick to that lower tier of the market that, you know, especially when you have less tax per sale of a card, I'm not gonna lie, this Lucille is very tempting. If I see 650 flat, I might have to pull the trigger. Maybe we can get a sale like 700 or something, maybe 640 would be a better price. But that's what you have to worry about in a market like this is you have to make sure you get a really good undercut or in a really good price because even if it's a rare card, it may not bounce all the way back up to where you thought it was gonna go. So careful is the word that I would use. I've probably said it too many times already in this video, but like 380, I'm fine with that. Like just trade with stuff that's hype too, right? The Mares, I'm trading with the Manchester City Links. It worked for me yesterday. That sort of stuff is what I would try trading with in the short term, right? Quick flips. I'm probably gonna sell this stuff pretty soon. Now, speaking of why I'm gonna sell it pretty soon, take a look at what we might have today for our content on Monday. We didn't get like a big SBC yesterday, like we were maybe talking about it happening. EA's back on their normal schedule. Maybe, who knows? But we didn't get an icon or a hero upgrade player pick or any sort of gamble pack yesterday. We had only the 80 plus upgrade SBC, which we kind of thought we might get something along those lines today. Usually that's when we get like our normal gold upgrade SBC, but we did not end up getting that. The interesting thing is, of course, this Centurion's upgrade SBC chase coincides with that 80 plus pack. If you do that 80 plus pack 100 times, you get some extra packs inside of here. Now these packs are decent and they're nice, but let me tell you guys, this is probably not worth going out and spamming 100 times to get it done right away to get these packs right now. If I were you guys, I would honestly wait, especially if you're saving any packs for team of the year, all you have to turn in for this is like silvers, right? I'm sure there's gonna be some rare mixed players packs, electric packs, they give out silvers that don't sell for anything. Maybe some non-wear silvers from off leagues that don't sell on the market during team of the year. If you're opening up any of those safe packs that you could just slowly from your club filter into this 80 plus upgrade. Guys, this is gonna be here for 89 days. I know the team of the year is probably gonna be the most important time or a lot of people wanna get this done, but don't feel like you have to hurry and get this done right away. Honestly, go into your club and check if you see any tradable silver cards. I believe like all silver cards right now are selling for like five to 600 coins during the peak of the day. They're probably gonna go back to that as well. 500 for the cheapest ones right now. Check your clubs for silvers from like off leagues. If it's a top five league, maybe you don't sell, just check the price. But anything that of course doesn't look like it's gonna sell for much, sell it for 500 coins because it's kind of the same thing when like rare bronzes go up. Sell those, take the cash because you'll earn a couple extra coins for what those cards should normally be. And that's just a good place to sell and a good time to sell when we have a lot of demand. Because this SBC actually does require silvers as the minimum, I put gold non-raise in here. It's actually cheaper. You can buy gold non-raise for 400 coins, but silvers go for 500. FIFA market enough, sell those silvers, get them out if you don't need them and buy golds instead or just kind of craft them from the club over time. But that was very interesting yesterday. I hope we have another one today. I hope it's either like an 80 plus double or maybe even a player pick, a 78 plus player pick. Something along the lines of another repeatable upgrade pack would be nice. Although I could see this being the only one that we have. It'd be unfortunate if it is because it's not that amazing of a pack and a lot of people are complaining that don't get good stuff from us. Hopefully get something else today along those lines. And then also today, we're just having our fingers crossed for some sort of icon player pick. We had an icon player pick last week. Does that mean we're gonna go to a hero player pick this week? I feel like the possibilities are there and the potential is there to get. I would have to guess, if I had to take a guess, I would say a hero player pick but it still could be some sort of icon player pick or some sort of gamble pack SBC today. And the way that I look at the market right now in terms of fodder, it looks investable to me and I am a fan because some of these prices dropped off from yesterday. Look at 85s. Index 85 was at 169 points all the way back down to 153. 85s are about 7,000 coins again guys and I mean, this is not bad at all. Yes, of course, on Saturday, they were like six point whatever K, you could get them 6.6, 6.7 for some of them before they spiked up with the big 100 pack SBC. Just a reminder, these guys were 8.2K on Saturday, right? And then yesterday, they were around 8K, content dropped, we had the tradable supply of lightning rounds and people finishing their week and leave and these cards are down again since we didn't have a big SBC. I'm liking 85s, even 84s to be honest. I mean, you would need some big 84 demand. They're still definitely inflated, but 85s, 86s is I like the most. 87s, it's a little bit risky and then the higher you go on the ratings, the more risky it gets because these guys are already inflated just a lot, right? 55K for Courtois, who was 41K last week. I just think that the 90s and 91s are too inflated for my liking. Even the 88s are starting to go up. But 25,000 coins, these guys were 22K just a couple of days ago when they were super low. So I think if I would look at any market of the fodder right now, I think I like the 86s and the 85s the best for the biggest potential ROI. Now again, it all depends on the SBC that EA dropped, right? EA's got to drop a good SBC that it makes all the fodder market or at least the middle tier of it in demand for fodder to go up. So I would say it's a pretty safe time to go ahead and do a club stock. Again, if you think about it, we are in that time zone where we're a couple of weeks before a team of the year. This would be a great time if you're EA sports to drop some SBC packs out there that would drain people's clubs of their coins, of their fodder, right? A lot of people open this 100 upgrade pack, 100 players upgrade, and that's got a lot of gold cards and some fodder in people's clubs. So it could be a really nice time for EA to try to drain some of that from the game. And I think they will do so starting today. That's why I think fodder would be a good investment or a club stock at the very least. I'm gonna go ahead and do some of that on the 85s, 86s, maybe a couple of 87s tonight as well or today and just get that in my club so that I'm ready to go for whatever comes out this week. And especially, it seems to be like in a big kind of situation in the market that we're about to head into, right? We're about to head into a part of the market where a lot of prices on meta cards are gonna drop and people are gonna have coins from selling their teams, right? They're gonna be sitting on their coins and waiting for that next opportunity to buy. But if I'm being completely honest, another thing that EA is really smart at is knowing that that happens and then dropping these gamble packs like we just talked about. And then you've got coins, right? And then EA drops a fun pack. People are still gonna do those packs except for a very slight few, right? The really, really smart people that don't want to waste their coins before a big promo-like team of the year. But of course, a lot of people will see a gamble pack like a hero player pick or an icon player picker upgrade or some sort of campaign or bag or something like that. You guys know, right? The gamble packs that are just fun to do and open. People will still do those even though the market is crashing and that will make fodder still go up. And even though we're headed towards team of the year, that kind of stuff will still happen. So keep a close eye out for that today. That's why I'm pro fodder right now. Like I'm not a guy that usually goes and investing in that stuff or at least like unassigned at all. That's not anything that I usually do. I'm probably not gonna go unassigned. I'm not trying to tell you here that I'm gonna be showing up to the stream tomorrow with a thousand cards minus sign. There's no shot actually, there's zero percent. But would I fill out my transfer list? Maybe, you know, that sort of thing I will potentially do. And I've also started to fill out my transfer list with cards that I think might just rise slightly into today. But I like the out-of-packs market the best. If we're gonna try to venture into that today, Winter Wild cards too. The Centurions we kind of talked about, there's some risk there because their impacts and getting supplied still. But you know, Pepe is down a good amount. Could he go up today? Absolutely, a Mavi 36K. We did have the mini-release yesterday which I completely forgot about the mini-release. We actually knew it yesterday because Lucas Vasquez, Quagmirella, and who's the third one? It was the Japanese center back. Hasebe, those guys were actually leaked on Friday and I completely forgot about those guys. But EA gave some nice upgrades. Vasquez looks pretty good for a right back, four-star, four-star, high-medium work rates, not bad. Of course, it's kind of like a direct replacement for the Carvajal PTG. But honestly, Carvajal's PTG card is the exact same. If not even a little bit better, you don't have the four-star, four-star. So this card, of course, is down because people are like, oh, well let me sell my Carvajal and go try out the new Lucas Vasquez that is out. So there's some hype around that card. A little bit of hype around Quagmirella, but he's only 42,000 coins. And pretty good stats, just nothing super-duper insane. Wow, Neymar is 193, that is very, very low. And I wanna talk about these centurions cards for a second too because a lot of people been asking me, Nate, when to buy these cards? Like, I know Kempembe is extremely meta and I know a lot of people wanna buy this card, but we have to stick to the basics and we have to stick to kind of what we know and almost like the common sense theory around this, right? If people this week are still willing to buy cards, could this Kempembe go up? Yes, but if people this week, especially with the team of the year stuff coming out, when voting starts, if people decide to start selling, if that happens this week, I'm not saying that everything's gonna crash this week, but if that does happen this week, then I think you will still see this card drop down because these foot centurions do seem to be supplied a good amount, right? The supply on these seems to be pretty high. So that's what I worry for with a little bit of a guy like Kempembe, but let's be completely honest, if you're looking at a Kempembe to buy for your team, right? If you see like, I don't even know, oh my gosh, Neymar, it's so low, bro. If Kempembe is like 400K in the middle of the week and there's been some panic before he goes out of packs, that's a lot more tempting to me than thinking about buying Kempembe right now with more team of the year news on the horizon and hoping that he goes to like 480K in two days. That seems less likely to me than Kempembe going down another 20 to 30,000 coins and then rising up maybe out of packs. Just because it's Kempembe, I do believe that this card will be one to keep a close eye on during team of the year because a lot of people with PSG links being in team of the year, will want to build teams with a guy like this, but we just gotta be careful, right? We have to be careful and just kind of keep the common sense knowing that a lot of people are not gonna want to be buying teams that much in the next couple of weeks because we're getting close to team of the year. So it's gonna be a very interesting market today. I'm gonna try to trade in and out of it. Like I said, I bought some cards, I got some out of pack stuff, I got some in pack stuff, a couple of Jamie Vardys, I got a couple of Snipes. So I've invested about half my coins, probably gonna go do a nice club stock on fodder right now and not spend too much more because I don't wanna risk it too much, right? It's all about figuring out how much risk I wanna kind of assume at the moment and that's not a lot with what's coming on the horizon. So we'll see if EA have any huge surprises for us today. If they do end up putting the nominees in packs, that would cause an absolute madness, I assume. If they did it like they did a couple of years ago, but I really don't expect them to do that. But hey, it's EA Sports, they'll surprise us sometimes. So we'll see, we'll talk about it and of course we'll watch it happen all live on stream. Link down below in the description. But if you enjoyed today's video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. Have a good start to your week. It's been Nathan from Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace, outs.