What's your long-term strategy for building a team?
Long term strategy. Spend now while everything sells for a ton and they are offering bundles that print coins. Work towards a stack of 20 mil. Then coast. With a big stack you can invest in cards for training before promos release and make even more coins in order to just buy the top end cards and not hurt your stack. Rinse and repeat. Yes you have to spend some money now, but if you do spend money, best to do it when the market is booming like it is and then not have to spend anything for the rest of the year. I have a good job. So I have a “mut” fund put back for every year when the game releases. I’ve been doing this for 5 years now and it works every year.
Edited by Tonmiles
I think you take the BND cards from the passes, but I dont think its correct to be doin the sets that give you BND unless you really like most of the cards (for example 3+ from headliners). I see so many people running Wentz since they crafted Mixon/Snead. Even if they sold him for 230k, profit 215, and got good deals on the 85s like 60k, thats still 85k and you've now locked into positions that you cant get out of with some mediocre cards (if you did the first set Davis is OK , Parham a beast, and the colts rusher is mediocre). I think when they put 2 linemen in the set it became worth it. Point is, I dont agree with what seems to be standard and creating the set Champions. I think staying one set behind the top of the meta is usually most price efficient. Like buying Bates at FS when Holland first came out, you could get him for 90k.
Slowly trade out my entire team with BND cards that are free/cheap. Then use packs and coins accumulated to supplement positions of need. Figure after a month or two will have a solid team and then a steady stream of coins to get the new players I want.
I think the move is to work towards one of the big boy theme teams like the raiders or niners due to the love EA always shows them as well as the plus 2 speed boost you'll end up with in the long run. But yeah if you're trying to do your favorite team or something and it's the Jaguars or Bears (my favorite team) that seems like a fruitless endeavor currently...
Most promos allow you to build the top card (89 for headliners) with lower pieces (86s) and get all the 86s back for less than 50k cost. Build your team doing this as you stack coins. If you're an awesome h2h guy and need all the best players, this may not work, but for me, it's been going fine. Another benefit is every promo helps you, where theme teams may go weeks without a card for your team. I also fill in gaps with platinum cards I've sniped for almost QS value. These will never lose value.
Build a stack of coins the best you can. WHen promos drop, previous top tier cards become a huge bargain. You won't get the latest and greatest players, but the dropoff to the previous latest and greatest is not that noticeable.
And I would advise a theme team, getting to the speed boost tiers is worth it.
Short term problems aside, I'm not seeing any long term strategy. All my starters, but 3, are BND. All field pass cards are NAT. Power ups may not have a purpose and look like they are going nowhere. Theme teams and split theme teams appear to offer no advantages.
Max out on Competitive Field pass and you get 220,000 coins, some XP, a random 89 and a few packs for 2 weeks of grinding.
If you add abilities to high end cards they may become BND (maybe EA fixed this maybe not but I'm not going to risk it). But even if it doesn't become BND, it's one and done and off to the AH in a couple weeks at a big discount.
Tell me what I'm missing.