 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. EA Sports, where do we begin with you guys? Because Team of the Year just continues to disappoint on this game right now. And for so many people, Team of the Year is chocked. It's over. Maybe you opened up all of your safe packs who didn't unpack anything and you're just left now frustrated with what should I do on this game because I didn't pack a Team of the Year because I'm bummed, right? I want to talk through that frustration today because I feel it a little bit as well. This content could have been so good and it was good. And now it's fallen off a little bit and has to do with a couple of key areas in this game. But I want to provide some perspective into that because if we have some good content right now, I just want to show you where to find it. So if you're excited for the video today and you like the freaking juicy thumbnail on the video today, drop a thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's content. I mean, yesterday guys was a promo Friday and all honesty in what we take it as new cards and packs, new objectives, new SBCs. It was a promo Friday and it went pretty normally, except for this one has a lot more height because it's Team of the Year week, right? Let's go to the objectives quickly. We had the second year in review objective for 1000 XP. This is a must do to get 1000 XP. You do have to have seven Liga F players, which if you're doing any of the La Liga Liga F gold upgrades, you can very easily get those players in your team just for a couple of squad battles games. And you get this McCabe card with Rapid Plus, Hullet Gang card, four star, four star, not a terrible card, could I mean with those stats potentially evolvable, not in the too far near future, all 80 mids and below for a left back and also left mid. So not a terrible card there for sure. I love this though, the daily play and the daily play completionist. Don't forget about these guys because I probably will just saying that out there in front of you guys. I probably forget one of these and end up not completing the whole thing. But I've been hearing people say that they're packing some good cards out of these objective packs. I don't know what it is, but objective packs always seem to have a little bit higher pack weight. It's crazy. So make sure you get those done to at least have a chance at that one. And then we have to talk about an evolution because we had a really good one dropped yesterday. First Evo that gives out a team of the year on mentions Evo card design, which in itself is a W, but this is a skill move boost Evo. You also get the chip shot trait. It's very easy to get done. It's literally four games of squad battles. And you can take somebody with four star skills to five star skills. And the requirements aren't that bad. 85 rated right wing. It does not say you can't have a play style plus. So you can put somebody in this who does have a play style plus, which is really nice. So maybe you're able to upgrade a card that you already have in your club. And this Evo is only 40% up voted on footpeg. I think this is just kind of falling into the hype of everybody being disappointed about team of the year. But this is a fantastic Evo for some of the opportunities that you can create. Even if you're trying to create an opportunity for a card to get Evo to get in the future, which is what I might do. There are some really good evos. Check out this Brian and Buomo. There's some really good combinations with the finisher and cut inside evos. Although a lot of people have used them and they're going away like finisher expires. You have to submit somebody into it today by content. But take a look at this and Buomo five star four star with the right side week foot training and then finisher one or two. You get Trivella plus in the end. Like what a card that is. There's so many really insane Evo combinations that you can make with this right side star Evo. So just be careful with that one because it also did not say that it could not be an in progress evolution player put into this Evo. So that was one of the requirements we talked about in yesterday's video that is maybe upcoming, but we actually didn't see it just yet. So I think that Evo is really good. It's super easy to get done. So make sure you get that one done or at least have it planned to be used on a card that you want to get upgraded. Now let's get into some of the more frustrating things, right? Because that content, the objective content, the daily play and that Evo, that's good content. Let's get into the stuff that we're really not that happy about. And especially it revolves around SBCs and the new upgrade packs that we had yesterday and the player SBC. Koviccia, Kovaradona, Kovaradskelia, however you say his name. This is a cool looking card, right? Of course, he's five-star, five-star. He's got really good traits. Big name player as well. Ooh, 76 pounds. I just noticed that. That's not that great. But the real problem here is the price in my opinion. You got technical plus on his card, which is very, very overpowered as well. I feel like if you're a Syria or an Apple fan, you're doing this SBC, but EA's making you pay a premium for it. Like they are for a lot of SBCs right now. That is a common theme. And guys, before content yesterday, we had three different players league this SBCs. We had already talked about Saliba. We saw Kovaradskelia leak. And then there's one more player that we'll talk about later today that could be coming as well. I think they picked the worst of the three in my humble opinion. This is a decent SBC, but the price is the problem. 680,000 coins for this card. That Brian and Buemo that I just showed you would cost 100K, and he is better in my opinion than his Kovaradskelia card. So again, not terrible. It just could have been a lot better. If he was half the price, then I'd say, ooh, sweet. It'd be really, really easy to craft. But even with the upgrade packs and the bad pack weight from those, you can't even get this guy done too easy right now in this game. So hopefully we have better player SBCs to come after this Kovaradskelia. But where it really gets to be a problem yesterday, and for a lot of us that are grinding the packs and grinding menus and trying to open these premium upgrades, rinse our commons into stuff, and just pack as much fodder and as many players as we can. And of course, at the same time, having the most amount of possibility, giving ourselves the best possibility to pack a team of the year, the other upgrade packs that were released just are not it. And I've done all of them. But oh boy, it doesn't take very long to get them all done if you're opening a lot of packs. An 80 plus player pick dropped yesterday, which is awesome. But you can only do it 10 times every other day. If this was unlimited repeatable, we would be loving life because this would be an incredible fodder simulator for those 84s and above, which a lot of us need 85s, 6s, 7s, and 8s right now. If you have no 82s, 3s, 4s in your club right now, then you must not be doing premium upgrade packs because those are everywhere. My club is chock full of 82s to 84s. It's the 85s, 6s, 7s, and 8s that I need to do other crafting SPCs and stuff like that. And these upgrade packs don't give it out that much or that well because they're only repeatable once per day. The 86 plus upgrade is once every two days. The 85, 3 repeatable again in a couple of days. The 82 times 20. Why did they not just release the 83 times 10? This is two squads. You have to have an 86 rated player in an 83 squad and then an 85 squad in a team of the week. It is so not worth it unless you get so lucky to have a team of the year card in this. These extra upgrade packs to rinse into crafting to are just not it. Like we're this close, man. If this 80 plus pick was unlimited repeatable and this 82 20 didn't exist and it was the 83 times 10, we would be cooking. Even if the 83 10 was just three times a day, we would be cooking right now for my 82s and 83s. I'm just putting them into like any 83 rated squad that I can find for a loan icon. And my club has so many team of the week players in it. I've never had this many any other time of the year because the 82s and 83s are just perfect for this SPC. So at least I'm stocking up on that. But also guys with these packs, the weight just continues to be shocking. Like I'm not even packing walkouts from the premium upgrades. I opened a bunch more packs yesterday. So my grind is again, I'm doing league one, a few of them, but I'm mostly doing Premier League and La Liga. And I haven't opened many La Liga packs. This is literally like the second one that I have opened. But like out of these packs, my highest rated almost all the time is like 82 threes and fours. And then like even like there's so many walkouts that I could be packing from these. It just seems like the weight on not just team of the years and promo cards, but the weight on just like everything has been turned down. I was going to say, watch me pack a team of the year, but there's no shot that that was going to happen during all of this. Was that, who's that? Oh, Moroni, I was going to say, could have embossed her there for a second, but that's right, she's got to inform in packs. But the pack weight just continues to be shocking. And that doesn't help everything in the grind as well. But guys, I don't want to keep complaining about the pack weight, right? Because yes, there's a lot of dupes, there's a lot of crafting, and there's a lot of us that have opened packs and haven't packed anything. I've opened hundreds of packs after getting my first team of the year on Tuesday. And I haven't even seen an honorable mention flayer yet. None, nothing, man. And it is very demoralizing, I get that. But also at the same time, we know that team of the years are not easy to pack. The pack weight in the store, I might just for the sake of getting to the store and showing you guys this, I hate doing this, it's four cards, quick selling it. That could have been a team of the year in the next pack. You never know, right? But the pack weight is really not improved. I mean, technically slightly it is. Let's go to our trusty 400K pack to compare the odds. It was yesterday 2.8%. They added in Ronaldo and Pop for the 12th man and 12th woman, and it's 3.7% now. But on the market and in these upgrade packs, you can't tell the difference, guys. The pack weight seems almost exactly the same. Now the team with your honorable mentions are a lot more packable, that is for sure. But the pack weight overall, even on fodder as I mentioned, just seems so shocking and that hurts a lot of the hype on the menus as well. But of course, as I still have over 100 packs left, I still have a lot of coins. I still have almost 3 million coins. I am putting coins in these upgrade packs during the next couple of days continuously because it's all about still the chance of packing a team of the year. Last year, it felt just like this. And this year feels a little bit worse. But last year felt just like this. And by the end of the week, I thought I was done. But I finally got one and it made it all worth it because I packed a VVD. So here's my pep talk to you. If you've got packs left in you, if you've got a little bit of grind left in you, get some gameplay objectives done, do the daily bronze, silver and gold SBCs to build your fodder back up in the club, get golds, keep doing the crafting and the league specific upgrades because you still have a chance. All it takes is one pack for everything to change. Once you hit a blue, then it becomes an incredible team of the year. For me and for a lot of us, we haven't hit blues yet. And some of you guys maybe can comment down below if you have hit a blue. You know that feeling changes everything, right? That's what we're all chasing on this game at the moment. And speaking of blues, there are more opportunities to hit blues now because we have the team of the year honorable mentions. But this is another talking point where people are really disappointed for yesterday in the game because these stat upgrades are really not even upgrades. For all the cards that got two playstyle pluses added to them. So Bernardo Silva, Salah Kane, Valverde, Vinny and Diani. If you take a look at these cards specifically Vinny, compare them to their latest special card, the stats are exactly the same. The only difference is maybe a position change like for Vinny. And of course you have a new playstyle that is added. So EA took cards that were over a month old in this game and said, let's keep their stats the same. Let's give them a second playstyle plus and maybe upgrade a weak foot like they did for Bernardo Silva and put them onto this game. And of course, these cards aren't worth that much now because it is such a small upgrade for a lot of these cards. And you saw the pack percentage. They're semi-packable. They're not easy to pack. But I think people are so disappointed yesterday on some of the upgrades in these cards or lack of upgrades whatsoever. That that's hurting the hype as well. Now Trent actually kind of has a cool card. Not the best of stats, but that's because they added center mid and center defensive mid to Trent and gave him whipped pass plus. Four star, four star, high high. That's a card that a lot of people want to try out because it's center mid Trent, right? So a lot of got to force their weak foot. Kim and Jay got a great special card. Harry Kane has power shot and first touch plus. Musiala Tech to go with the five star. You know, Edison got a card. Olga has a card. We're still missing a couple players. There might be a mini-release that's upcoming soon. But a lot of the sentiment about the team of the Honorable Mentions is, why did EA bother putting these cards out if they're literally just going to say, oh hey, we'll add another play style to your card and not upgrade any of the stats. That just seems like kind of mid and it just seems not that hype. And I think that's another reason why people are frustrated on this game. But the supply on these cards is actually pretty decent. You can tell by the number of save packs that were opened yesterday that these cards are on the market a lot. Now some of the more expensive ones, the rare ones like Diani. I actually picked one of her up at the end of the stream yesterday for 570 something thousand coins. She's around 600,000 coins. I would have to imagine that the low point for these cards is probably going to be during this weekend. Whether it was yesterday, some of them have rebounded a little bit. Not much. Some of them are still very low. Like Harry Kane, 130,000 coins. That is kind of where he's been. He's been around 130,000 to 140K. I could see these cards going up a little bit today. But also I could see them going down today as well. As a lot of people I think have traded with these cards and the upgrades aren't that big. They just have two playstyle pluses. We're really going to learn what people value in this game today. Do they value the playstyles or do they value the stats? Because if they value the stats, these cards might go down a little bit. If they value the playstyles and think those are really important, then we might see some people selling their cards to move into these and these could actually move up. But I think by the time we get to Monday, Tuesday, these cards are going to start to take off and value even though they'll still be in packs just because a lot of the packs being open for team of the year will be open by that point and a lot of your supply will be moving out and your demand with all the coins, right, that's the other thing to talk about with all of the lightning rounds that are being put out which again yesterday was a day where EA didn't do the crazy lightning rounds. I mean there are lightning rounds that are out right now which is different from what it's been in the past couple of days. But that 85 times 7, that's kind of like the magic lightning round that really supplies the market alive. They still haven't dropped it. The best lightning round that they've had is probably this one deluxe icebreaker pack which is untradable. It gives you a 2.6% chance of a team of the year. This icebreaker jumbo is a 3000 FC point pack. You only have a 2% chance of honorable mentions, 8% chance in the super 86 plus pack and then this is another untradable one. The weight's always the best in the untradable packs but they didn't drop the insane lightning rounds. The position specific ones, the 85 times 7, the 84 times 10 or whatever 84 or 7, whatever lightning rounds those were that are position specific and tradable. They have not been dropping those and that just means that the team of the year cards and the fodder prices on this market continue to stay high. In fact, Christian Ronaldo's barely seen the market. He's extinct at 15 million coins. Alexandra Popp started out the day, I think in the first hour she went down to 1.3 million coins. She's now 1.6 mil and of course it's just disgusting when you look at the team of the year prices guys. Virgil van Dijk is 11 million coins. Judith 6 mil. Ruben Diaz went from 2.6 or 7 yesterday all the way to 3.3. Rajri's 2.7. All of these cards. Katie B's over 3 mil. Messi is 9 mil. The supply is just non-existent and the prices just keep rising. Renard's 2 million coins. Sam Kerr's 1.5. Sophia Smith is up 500k. She's 2 million coins. It is crazy how much these prices are rising because again people are opening their saved up packs. They're getting coins and that is just making this market inflate in a lot of different areas. And I think that for some of these team of the years there's no reason for them to go down unless number one EA changed the pack weight which it's evident after yesterday they're not going to change too much. We'll keep an eye on the store. We'll keep an eye on things but I can't imagine that it's going to change that much. Yeah it's really just that. It's really just the pack weight to be honest. If that gets changed things can happen or it's got to be some crazy insane content to make those cards drop. But as of right now team of the years are so good in game if you've used them in draft they're so good that people who have these tradeable are probably not going to want to sell them and that's going to keep them super duper inflated with the rarity and with how good they are in game. So again the team of the years are flying even further adding more disappointment. If you're somebody who wanted to buy a team of the year for a team it's getting harder and harder to look at these cards and see them just fly up in price and be like wow why in the world is this card this much? Taylor Hernandez should not be for 5 million coins like he is but he is and this is how much he's going for on the market because he is so rare it is just ridiculous. So other parts of the market though if you're looking to make coins that I think you can get into are actually links to the upcoming SBCs and I think I would also mention fodder just a little bit because fodder is in demand and it's fluctuating every single day. Especially yesterday I want to show you guys again on these prices they had a quick drop at content and now they're absolutely flying again even higher than what they were yesterday right? Hegerberg yesterday was about 41,000 coins dropped into content to 39,000 and then look at the spike up to 45k where all the 89s are right now on this game even like the 88s at 26,000 coins. Yesterday I think they might have been like 23 get down to 23,000 coins and they're just absolutely flying. If you see drops on fodder there's still people doing SBCs. This is going to be a great place if you're wanting to grind the market out a bit get on some bids get on some snipes during the content drop in the hour or two afterwards that's the best place to go. 90 raids they went from like 55k yesterday all the way up to 63, 64 where they are now yeah Benzeman was 57 probably attainable at 54, 55 on bids now there's 62,000 coins. These cards there's so few of them in packs anyway because you've got a lot of them out of packs Messi, Kane, Bonmati, Kerr, De Bruyne and Hollin as 91 raids or 80k they're all out of packs so how many of the 89s like Allison, Rubid Diaz, Diani they're out of packs as well, Rodgery right so that's making the gold cards that are still on the market go up a lot as well. I think fodder is going to be a good place to trade just a quick flip though not really invest and like I mentioned investing in links and in cards that people are going to be buying to build out their teams and when I say links I say links to the SBCs that are upcoming now let's transition to talking a little bit about what's coming today on this game as well on Saturday we've got two more SBCs that are leached right this is the big one Luca Modric, okay Luca Modric is a staple center mid of this game this year because of how good his road to the knockouts card has been since this card dropped earlier in this game it has been a staple guys this card is everywhere I don't know if you've played against it if you've seen it he's probably a top four to five center mid most used card hyped card in the game it's Modric his passing dribbling is great his Trivella plus is insane and an SBC card for him will be very very hyped I don't know when this is going to drop but again we have Modric and we have Saliba that are still leaked as SBCs to come during honorable mentions I do think we'll get one of those two today I don't know who it is but I do believe that even if the SBC is a little bit overpriced you're probably going to see cards that link to either of these players end up going up in value so I'm just shouting a couple of cards off the top of the dome Courtois, his Winter Wild Cards Striker version is a card that would like potentially go up if a Modric like that is released like I'm not saying he's going to go crazy like 88k is actually kind of low for him because I saw him at 95k yesterday so I'm going to pick that one up right there but I picked up like Alaba just be totally transparent a couple of cards on my transfer list right now I picked up a David Alaba for like 180 180 Lowe's 1000 coins because as the market is starting to appreciate and people are getting more coins and buying up these cards because they want to use them for their team they're going to want to use them even more and there's going to be more demand for them if EA drop these player SBCs that are for such big name players like Madrid Arsenal big fan bases tons of people are excited for a player like Modric and for a player like Saliba on this game I think that it might actually be a decent time to start looking at the market for some of these players that link to either of those guys I would say before you go blindly buy though check the graphs check the footprint graphs check the players that link because you got to buy somebody that's also that's meta as well like this Gabriel Jesus 100 and 120,000 coins is what I'm looking for for him like East 123 right now I know there's a lot of other prem strikers in this game and a lot of other strikers that people would want to use like compare this card to the Harry Kane that just dropped right the Harry Kane looks a lot better with first touch plus and with the power shot or maybe even an EVO card recently that you've done looks better than this Gabriel Jesus but he's an Arsenal player and there's not that many Arsenal players on the market so you know watch out for stuff like that depending on whose SBC drops today those players could rise up a lot more in the next two to three to four days in this game as long as there's no other SBC dropped in that exact same position so that's one thing that I wanted to mention going forward again I don't know who's today I would just say watch out for one of those two being dropped today on this game and yeah for the rest of the out-of-packs market guys like yesterday was a really really good day of flips a lot of people of course are opening packs but since that's the case there's a lot less people looking at the market so if you want to grind and if you want to get ahead while people are not focusing on the market as much you can do that very very easily Adigemi is a card that I bought yesterday for 202,000 coins and I sold I didn't sell him actually but he spiked all the way to like 230 like look at this graph if he goes back down to like 205 again that's a buy because you can buy him at 205 and sell him for almost 230 like every single day according to his graph let's see who else Kunde is a card that fluctuates a lot I love the Winter Wild cards for this because they're some of the most meta recent cards that we have had the icons are great as well now be careful this is another thing if we get a Saliba today this Kyle Walker he probably will drop if we get a a Modric then maybe some of your Madrid midfielders may drop a little bit as well maybe even that Alba that I picked up may not end up being a great link investment to a Modric we'll have to see but that Alba card is so rare that I like trading with him this is a card that I picked up yesterday on a bid guys I bought this card right here when he was 294 I got him on a bid for 265 on stream a lot of you guys saw it I ended up selling him out right here for 320 something thousand coins kind of where he is it's stuff like that that can make you big coins right now because people have coins and they're buying cards so that's one way you can work the market to your advantage in this time maybe even if you're disappointed in the game get a little motivation for getting some coins up maybe you can go do some extra SBCs that way give yourself a chance at packing a team of the year albeit very tough but if you have coins coins are coins are power on this game right coins are king we say that a lot because if you don't have coins you can't do too much or at least you can do a little bit more now with the menu grind than you used to be able to do but having coins gives you insane opportunities on this game so watch the market in the out of pack space big names rare cards there's a lot of them this year you can make some good coins there now for evolutions more content upcoming here as well one of these two I think is dropping today team of the year center mid or team of the year left wing and these are evos that we had already talked about and looked at and also I mean there are sometimes cards that rise on the market because they're linked to a new evolution that is coming out maybe if the left wing evolution comes out today you know maybe you want to be a little bit careful with left wings because you know maybe some people are selling their current one in their team to go and do one of the new ones that has been dropped in the evo section so that's something to just be careful about you don't have to be crazy worrisome about it but just be careful same thing with the center mid right I mean if the evos very good it could impact the market a bit we saw that during winter wild cards the evos were crazy made center mids drop when like peps legacy was dropped and all that sort of thing so watch out for that and then today could be a day of a mini release right we talked about that Benini card has not been dropped in packs and we have the team of your icons I think the release would be tomorrow on Sunday but there's still a chance that it could be today so these cards are going to be returning back into packs if I had this is probably a good opportunity if if you have any of these if you have any maybe you take this opportunity to sell tradable like Rio Ferdinand's up a million coins like what that's crazy Essie ends up over 150k he was like 900,000 coins LOM is up 200,000 coins that's those are cards that got packed the most when they were in packs especially like Wednesday, Thursday before they went out of packs I would see them dropping a little bit again so yes they'll probably go higher than like their lowest of lows if you got a LOM at like under 800 you might not end up losing any coins and you could probably hold through but it's just something to kind of watch out for these team of your icons are supposed to be coming back in packs we expect them to come back in packs tomorrow but maybe today they drop honorable mentions mini releases as well I think that's very very possible that they could do that too so that's kind of what I expected for the content of the game today but for a lot of us on this game it's going to be the continuation of the grind of opening all of our packs crafting hoping and just waiting for that blue flare to show up I would take an honorable mentions right now I'm rinsing in the MLS pack still just for a chance and messy I know it's a small chance but I'm going to go for it and also one thing to watch out for today too is especially with the low tier honorable mentions cards guys low tier honorable mentions I'm talking let's see look at the team again I'm talking Trent and I'm talking probably who are the cheapest cards in the team Ederson Olga and Trent and Bernardo Silva guys we have that pack that's in the code that guarantees you three honorable mentions team of the year cards I don't know if they'll drop that pack until after all of the mini release cards like maybe Benini is released maybe there's a couple others I think they're going to have to release some lower rated ones for some fodder pack filler if you will because right now if you would take a pick of three guaranteed cards from this team yeah you're probably getting Olga and Ederson but like your next worst player Trent Kane Kim and Jay Bernardo Silva that's going to be kind of a nice pack and whenever that pack drops it might cause a little bit of panic because it is untradable but they're going to be packed these cards since there's so a few of the ones that are going to be packed are going to get packed a lot and it could create some selling on the market for these specifically just because that pack is so crazy so watch out for a three guaranteed team of the year honorable mentions pack maybe today if the mini release drops maybe tomorrow but that could be a pack that causes a little bit of calamity on the market as well I'm saving this 84 times 20 for Sunday when the icons potentially come back into packs but until then guys I'm going to keep rinsing I'm going to keep crafting I know it's frustrating but all it takes is one and that's what I'm here for the chance of the one especially if you pack a team of your card this year when they're freaking 10 million coins like VVD it makes that one hit so much different so I'm going to keep trying we're going to keep uploading the videos every day there's still a lot of content that's out right now make sure you're getting your objectives your gameplay done your evos all that stuff your rewards from footchamps which they extended footchamps again just like last season it's going to be the extra day in length which is unbelievable thank you EA sports we do really love that but yeah guys I know a lot of you guys are frustrated and I feel you in that but hopefully EA can come back with some better content hopefully some more upgrade SBCs and 85x3 midfielder last shout out of the video 85x3 midfielder or attacker I think we'll be coming out in the next two days as well they did the defender yesterday it refreshes in two days maybe it's the midfielder today and the attacker tomorrow the 82x20 comes back today which we will craft again but not to our liking and yeah EA can you just like take one of these SBCs out and put a better one in or remove the timer I hope they notice that people are not super excited about this game right now and that it actually makes a little bit of a change but I just have to think they're selling so many FC points right now because they've made these cards rare which maybe makes people go and chase them more which is probably not helping our case we're getting a little bit better content on this game so that's the video for today guys if you did enjoy drop a thumbs up on a comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new catch you guys in video tomorrow's been Nate for the Count peace out