How to have Competive Team + Don’t Lose Coins

maxalkaline said:

What’s your strategy for balancing having a competitive team but also making sure you don’t lose coins. There has been several times in madden ultimate team that I lose a couple hundred thousand coins because a new drop with hot new players drops the price of my whole team. How do you guys balance this?

I don’t play enough to make 200-300k in a week so ive got to continuously buy and sell, right?

You really need to know what you need upfront to make your defensive and offensive schemes work. If you can do that then you can avoid overpaying for players that you could've found cheaper and sometimes more effective alternates for.

It also helps to know what body types you need for each position on defense. I ideally like my DE to be larger so they can control the edge better and don't get bullied. Everyone looks for LE for the left side which causes them to be more expensive. I look at RE to see if there are guys who are cheaper but on par with the same player at LE that may be much more expensive. I also can look for an undersized DT that's a speed rusher who might be undervalued as a DT because he might be small for the position but he'll be a great fit at DE. You can do this for many positions allowing you to fill your team with cheaper players.

You also need to know what players are actually playing. Go to practice and subs to see who are your starters in each formation. I had a coverage problem in one of my formations before and realized I had a player with no coverage skills playing in one of my subsets because of his position on the depth chart. Sometimes those second or third guy at a position may be a starter and by simply upgrading those spots alone can change your offense or defense and that may be simply replacing a 74 overall backup with a 77 or better who will be extremely cheap.