 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today, we are making our first video of the year on one of the most popular trading methods and short-term investing methods in FIFA Ultimate Team the past couple of years. It is called Thursday Flipping or Weekend League Flipping. Basically, what we do is we buy cards before division rivals and Weekend League rewards on Thursdays and sell them afterwards because that coin induction on the market actually makes prices rise for meta players that people want to upgrade and put into their squads. So, there's a lot of stuff to talk about in today's video. This is actually not the first Weekend League rewards, of course, but is division rivals rewards. And I still think that's gonna have some sort of an impact on the market because some people will be taking coins from rivals rewards. They've been grinding the game, getting rewards that way. They've been playing the game. I forget, like I've played just a couple. I need to play a few games tonight, man, so that I can get packs, right? People that are on the full game right now are grinding the game. This game rivals and squad battles to get these packs. Like this is how you get the packs in the game right now. So, a lot of people are gonna be playing div rivals and there's gonna be a lot of rewards that come from it. A lot of people will take the tradable packs and I don't think that's a bad option, in my opinion, at this stage in the game, taking either the coins or the tradable packs. A lot of cards are still inflated on the market. A lot of cards that are pretty cheap in terms of their rating are gonna be pretty cheap on the market and that means for me that I think, sorry, low rating, but actually kind of expensive still. You know, guys like a Tamori or maybe a guy that's like an 80 rated card that is still going for like three to five K because of SBCs. So, I might take the tradable packs or the coins. Kind of decide between the two, however many coins it is and maybe what packs you get. Kind of decide is it worth it to take a chance or not on that right there. But, these rivals rewards that come out on Thursday, I know I'm making this video early but I wanna give you guys plenty of time to prepare and there's a lot to talk about. These rewards coming out I do think will cause some prices to rise on the market like it always does. And a lot of stuff we're gonna talk about today actually pertains to team of the week number two and just very popular players that are on this game. So, I wanna talk about all the stuff that could rise for the Thursday flipping period. A lot of times we buy these players on Wednesday. So, I make this video earlier before awards so that you can actually have a thought and kind of a concept of what is going on and what some players you might want to buy would be. So, I look at this popular players page on footbin all the time. You go to the footbin homepage, players drop down and go to popular because these are the players people are searching up because they A, wanna know their price because they're either selling the card or they want to buy it and put it in their teams. So, there's a lot to talk about with players on this page but there's a couple things that I wanna mention, right? The stuff that is gonna rise after division rivals rewards is going to be meta cards from people that are upgrading their teams. They got coins, they got packs and they want to get a better player in their team, all right? So, you have to focus on meta. It's gotta be Premier League, it's gotta be Bundesliga, it's gotta be a top five nation in my opinion that's really gonna go up the most and it's just gotta be a player that's hype, right? That's why I look at this top 50 players list because if these are the players people are searching up the most on footbin, those are the players that they're wanting to buy the most or they're looking at and they're interested the most. So, as I look at this list, I see a lot of different players. You see low rated players with a very high price, low rated players with a lower price but still kind of high and then high rated meta players with a high price and all types of cards in between. The things, the cards that I think you wanna focus on on Wednesday today for rewards, to see them rise after that period would be cards that are very meta, that are decently high rated, that aren't gonna get packed that much during rewards because some people are just gonna take the coins as well and you might not see that much of like a dip in the market on some cards, you might just see them start to go up. So, and that's one of the things we're gonna talk about today, timing that buy zone but I also just wanna talk about the players that you wanna buy too. I know some of these guys are getting expensive, right? Sané, 141,000 coins, Dembele, 78K, Lucas René is not that expensive but some of these really meta players, Havertz, 130, these guys are pretty expensive, right? So Thursday flipping, the meta players that you might wanna be buying are probably ones that are gonna be pretty expensive and I'll talk about some players that are in a low range that might be very investable as well. So again, we kinda talked about the players, it's gotta be meta, it's gotta be popular. Let's talk about some, you know, market movements and like timing of those movements, right? Last year on this first rivals rewards night, there was a lot of panic selling and we saw it earlier this week even on some cards on Sunday night. Let's click into a player like Usman Dembele and look at what happened before the squad battle rewards that were played on Sunday night. Now, this might not exactly show us everything but you can see that on Sunday night, he peaked on Monday, the daily graph doesn't show the full story but Sunday night what happened was a lot of cards were sold off. This Usman Dembele was like 90 or 85,000 coins morning time on Sunday afternoon evening. He got sold off down all the way to around 70,000 coins during the squad battle rewards period and right when squad battle rewards came out, people got coins and they bought cards back. He went from 70,000 coins and later hit 92 on Monday. So what I wanna focus on is that drop off. I think there is going to be a decent amount, not a huge amount but there's going to be some sort of selling off of cards tonight on Wednesday night as we head into the rewards period on Thursday, all right? That's the one thing that I wanted you guys to focus on first because there is going to be a bit of a sell off headed into that period and that's actually gonna be when you want to time these buys. I don't know what else content's gonna come out that factors prices as well. The team of the week which we're gonna talk about factors into prices but the drop off which is before the actual rewards period is when you wanna buy because when those rewards come out, people are gonna be taking the coins, they're gonna open the couple packs that they get from rewards and stuff is going to start to rise. So that is thing number one. If you're buying a gold card that is a meta card like an Usman, like a Hernandez, like a Joe Gomez, this is also a decent time to maybe buy somebody for your team that's very high rated, like a Hazard maybe or like an Mbappe if you still haven't bought him or maybe a Pogba because yes, Friday the full game comes out and people will open packs for ones to watch but those meta players are just gonna get more and more expensive and they're gonna even explode more on the market as more and more coins are input into this game. So I would look to buy those players before rewards and I would even, you know, look for some drop off, right? When you're looking around the market, say, hey, what players do I want to buy? Again, you look for meta, you look for popular, you look for how easy they are to link in people's squads. Example Mbappe is a lot harder to link than somebody like Willian who wasn't super popular or meta but just harder to link makes him possibly not go up as much. Again, just gauging the hype around that player of course but that's kind of what you want to do with that. Looking at these buys before rewards, looking at the drops, comparing prices on full bin, watching how many percentage points a car has dropped compared to other players may give you a better opportunity of picking a card to invest in that might have, you know, more potential to rise or a higher profit percentage and make more use of your coins. That's getting pretty technical but you get the idea, right? Just watch for drop off some Wednesday night on meta cards, Brem, Bundesliga especially, maybe some La Liga, French, Brazil, of course all that stuff as well, off of this top 50 players list and just popular players that you know in foot. That is option number one. Now I want to talk about the actual rewards period as well because people are going to be opening packs. People will take the tradable packs because they're going to take the gamble and you're going to have a bit of supply come on the market. Players like this and this is a card that I have put in my mind is somebody that I want to closely watch during rewards on the Thursday division rival timeframe, right? Because this is what happened with this card on the rewards line on Sunday, right? He went down and then boomed right back up. What happened with this Tamori was during squad battle rewards, he got a lot of supply. So he went from like, I think he was actually at 7K at rewards and squad battles. He went down almost a thousand coins and then quickly shot right back up. I think that there might be a small window during rewards if you're awake for it, wherever you are in the world. For some of these low rated cards that are still very meta like Tamori, maybe even a guy like Nathan Ake or other very low rated cards that are going to get hit with supply but are also very meta. Venetius Jr. would fall in this category. Nacho Fernandez would fall in that category. Other other cards below, even Alex Tashiera possibly and Babu and Dombele. Those are types of players, Hwanghee Chan, he's 18 or coins so he might not go that much higher but low rated players like that that are still very meta, you know, 80 and below, they're gonna get packed, they're gonna have some supply, their price will probably drop for a short amount of time and then they will bounce back up as people have demand and coins to go buy those players. That's one way you can look to make coins on Thursday as well in my opinion with low rated players and one also way to make coins with these early weeks of rewards and I'm actually gonna talk about this as we have the first or second week and week and we have Team of the Week cards coming onto the game. Team of the Weeks are incredible, incredible cards to buy in the rewards period. Cards that are impacts for Team of the Week and cards from prior Team of the Weeks, right? So obviously right now when I'm recording this, Team of the Week 2 is not out yet. This is a prediction made by Foot Donk, Illegious Design and Harrison, right? I'll leave the link to this prediction in the description for credit for those guys. This is a good one and of course, there's a lot of potential with this Team of the Week this week. There's also some interesting information that any, all of us who have early access or pre-order the game will get one of these cards intradable. I'll tell you about that in a second and there's a lot of market potential with this too because a lot of cards could be going out of packs and this Team of the Week could be juiced. We'll see what EA wants to do with it and all that but link investments are also a big part of Thursday flipping and we talk about that throughout the entire year. Cards like Sun, who it links to and if you pack an informed Sun during your rewards, right? Who's gonna be linking to a player like this? Cisoco and Dambalay, maybe Harry Kane. Other regular on as a left back in the 4-5-1 formation, it would be a very popular link. So a card that's gonna get packed a lot or even some of these cards that like Chilwell is gonna be a left back in the prem, not very meta but let's say, what's a good card here? Let's say, Hamas has a right wing, very interesting. That's quite an interesting card. I don't see any cards right. Maybe Renato Sanchez, right? Let's just use this as an example, right? Renato Sanchez is a league on midfielder. He gets onto the game and he drops, his new card drops the prices of a league one midfielders because he's super hyped, super meta or whatever. Cards that are in the actual team of the week too are also good buys on rewards days. Not as much this week as maybe in future weeks because of the amount of packs that will be open because weak link rewards has a lot more of a tradeable pack supply than division rivals. But with informs like this, what you see often is in the first hour or two or three, after rewards, people pack those cards, they sell them, their prices drop and if they're meta, they bounce right back up because people buy these informs for their squads for the week in league, which I know we don't have that sort of demand now but just with, we're at this stage of the game where everybody wants coins, right? And division rivals is going to be putting coins out on the game and people are playing this game to learn it to get better at it and to develop their teams. They know that playing games will get them those coins that they need. So that's why I'm again, shouting out this team of the week. This is a prediction, of course, when the actual team of the week comes out, watch those cards in the first hour or so and you might be able to pack yourself, not pack yourself but you might be able to snag yourself a deal as one of those drops and then rises later with the influx of coins on the market. Now I mentioned this is something that's flying under the radar if you're still watching this point in the video, GGSU because this is some big information that really not a lot of people are talking about. As a part of the deadline day stuff that's going on with Ones to Watch, EA is not only, not only giving us a Ones to Watch pack, they're giving us this deadline day pack, right? Which is going to be granted before October 16th but let me talk to you about what this deadline day pack is. Starting, if you started playing FIFA by, basically if you pre-ordered FIFA and you started playing before the actual release date which it would be 12 a.m. on October 9th, you'll be granted the deadline day pack, I think that actually says Pacific so I guess you could, if you get on FIFA before this time, you'll be granted the deadline day pack which includes the Ones to Watch loan items which I think it's like a guaranteed or three or four untradable Ones to Watch loan players that will be a part of the OTW squad and also you'll be getting an untradable Team of the Week player item via a Team of the Week untradable one player pack on or before October 16th. So this should be before October 16th because this is coming out on October 9th and EA so far has been on top of their release dates in terms of the rewards that they're giving out, I believe, except for some of the attacker packs, defender packs and stuff like that, I think those are supposed to come out on the 9th as well. So all I'm saying is, if you played the game before the actual release date for the standard edition of FIFA or before this time right here, you're going to be getting an untradable player from Team of the Week two and if this is Team of the Week two, that is crazy. That is something that has never happened before and that's gonna impact the market because that gives people in FIFA, basically a lot of people, it gives them a inform in their club. Now, of course, a lot of us are gonna pack these guys in the bottom but you get a chance at Neymar, Haaland, Lewandowski, Chilwell, Hernandez, Courtois, Sanchez, Sun, if these guys are in Team of the Week tomorrow or today, that's crazy and that's why I wanted to point this out at the end of the video today and just to talk about it for a second because this is wild, like this is honestly crazy, the potential that we have here, getting an untradable once-to-watch player for pre-order in the game, a certain amount of time ahead of the actual release is one thing but giving everybody who played and got on the game before the standard edition releases a Team of the Week player from a Team of the Week that could be stacked, that's wild, all right? And I wanted to point that out and I think that's important because that's gonna affect the market in the future. So that's why I wanted to say something about it today. Also, one last minute thing, Team of the Week cards, this could be some sort of an investment as well. I don't know if you would really see these cards prices drop unless there's a player in Team of the Week two that would impact any one of these card prices from Team of the Week one. Team of the Week two cards would be a possible and decent investment as well for rewards coming tonight or coming tomorrow on Thursday with the division rivals rewards and the coins that that's gonna put on the market because people are just gonna go buy cards with the coins that they do. Yeah, so again, that's what I wanted to make this video again today was just about the division rivals rewards and I know you guys are like, it's only rivals, how is this gonna change the market? I do think it is gonna cause the market to go up. There are gonna be a few packs opened, not a ton but a few and I think that could bring some supply to the lower rated players which we could see them dip rise again and be a possible investment with that right there. Now, if you're a bit sketched on this and you're not sure, just be careful. Right coins are precious, right coins are precious especially at the beginning of the game but just kind of be careful if you're not wanting to invest I totally understand, right? Because we have a big day on Friday with all the stuff coming out regarding like the full edition more people getting on the game FIFA points and packs being open it's gonna be wild, it's gonna be crazy the whole wants to watch promo as well but I just wanted to make this video today talking about the potential for a market rise on meta players and usable players because people are getting coins from division rivals. 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