For the NMS Spent Players.. (or anyone else)

phatalerror said:

Your answer betrays what you don’t understand: The people that have less than one million coins aren’t making coins. You have to have money to invest money. Same with Madden coins. Once you have coins, you can scale your coin-profit efforts accordingly. You also can afford to take a loss, which means your ongoing efforts to sell cards for profit don’t get undercut by a need to price your profit-making cards low enough to sell quickly in order to continue your Auction House efforts. If you can make more coins with patience and close Madden until those items sell, you can generate tens of thousands more coins overnight. Sometimes trying harder means poorer results. Better to turn the game off and come back the next day.

I probably made 40-50 million coins off of Team Diamond master sets and components last year. I wasn’t even good at it until later in the year.

How did you make that much off of Team Diamonds last year..? I need to know because I am a newer player and haven't played when the Team Diamond promo came out.

lnterverse said:

How did you make that much off of Team Diamonds last year..? I need to know because I am a newer player and haven't played when the Team Diamond promo came out.

I invested a lot of time managing spreadsheets and inventories. Many, many hours, enough where I could have made a viable argument that my money was worth less than my time.

Last year was an anomaly. From what I understand, Team Diamonds usually were set cards with components from the same team. In MUT 24, to make any one set card, you needed 25 cards with OVR‘s ranging between 80 and 88 from the other three teams of the same division. For that reason, set preparation was more of a headache than many players wanted to deal with it. The sets were profitable all the way until Fan Appreciation and its numerous cards with the same players as those from Team Diamond utterly wiped out the return from the set components.

Many players prepare for Team Diamond by retaining certain items. After last year’s surprise, I would rather bank coins and be poised to flip auction house purchases into sets. Once I get the details on how this year’s program will work, I may decide to take the Team Diamond release day off work. Last year’s J.J. Watt was worth as much as 9 million coins, and even in my less-than-one-year’s experience, I managed to profit greatly coming into it without truly understanding the Auction House.

I hope this helps.

phatalerror said:

I invested a lot of time managing spreadsheets and inventories. Many, many hours, enough where I could have made a viable argument that my money was worth less than my time.

Last year was an anomaly. From what I understand, Team Diamonds usually were set cards with components from the same team. In MUT 24, to make any one set card, you needed 25 cards with OVR‘s ranging between 80 and 88 from the other three teams of the same division. For that reason, set preparation was more of a headache than many players wanted to deal with it. The sets were profitable all the way until Fan Appreciation and its numerous cards with the same players as those from Team Diamond utterly wiped out the return from the set components.

Many players prepare for Team Diamond by retaining certain items. After last year’s surprise, I would rather bank coins and be poised to flip auction house purchases into sets. Once I get the details on how this year’s program will work, I may decide to take the Team Diamond release day off work. Last year’s J.J. Watt was worth as much as 9 million coins, and even in my less-than-one-year’s experience, I managed to profit greatly coming into it without truly understanding the Auction House.

I hope this helps.

It helps a little bit, but I need a bit more detail on how you did it, what type of items did you or players retain? what type of purchases were made to go into sets to get some of those players? I get it's probably harder for you to explain that, but I just want a better understanding so I could maybe use an example on what to do. It's probably best when all the information comes out for Team Diamonds you can specify what to do in a Forum or DMS.

lnterverse said:

It helps a little bit, but I need a bit more detail on how you did it, what type of items did you or players retain? what type of purchases were made to go into sets to get some of those players? I get it's probably harder for you to explain that, but I just want a better understanding so I could maybe use an example on what to do. It's probably best when all the information comes out for Team Diamonds you can specify what to do in a Forum or DMS.

Team Diamond sets generally require specific cards, and not just cards of a range of OVR's. As such, I really can't make a good suggestion on how to prepare for the future.

In MUT 24, I simply copied and pasted a list from mut,gg into Access, where I cleaned it up and added details so that I could sort easily and track the players I had along with the players I needed to get. Since you needed 800 unique cards for a master set, and could seldom close out sets early, I was running up against the binder limit constantly. But in the end, I usually made about 100k a set, and could get 1 million coins or more for a master set for many months. Eventually a you-choose-a-BND set came out that included the Team Diamond Master Set items, and the prices started to crash on those cards. Even then, you could still make some coins on the individual sets up until Fan Appreciation made most of the Team Diamond items obsolete.

I'm sorry to not have more information than this. Completing Team Diamond sets are not like completing other sets.

mberezoski said:

Learn to work the market. Identify trends and patterns, and capitilize on them. For reference my currrent squad is an 88 ovr  nms and my coin stack is roughly 14 million (I know a few others who have already hit 20 mil). I probably make 90% of my coins from working the market and 10% from actually playing the game. 

Another basic recommendation, if you really want get anywhere in this game, work hard and do not spend a coin until you get your "investing stack" to at least 5 million". I personally did not upgrade my team until I hit 10 mil this year, but in my experience you have to have at least 5 mil in bank if you want to scale and make a meaningful amount of coins.

Ok, so today I took your advice and I spent some time in the market because I don't need to play until those new 90 overall champs come around and I started around with a coin stack around 5.8 million. I spent time looking at reduxes and surprisingly people will post them for cheaper. I also found that 84-85 players can be profitable too with the low risk it has and the higher profit you can make from buying them. 5 hours of being in the market, My coin total is now 7.4 million coins going strong making a total of 1.4 million coins. I'm hoping that when I invest into Steve Hutchinson before he's out of packs, he goes up due to low stock and I make around another 400-500K. I don't care if I lose because I can easily make it back. I want to say thank you for this advice because it was very helpful!