In FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, the “Team of the Year” is currently running, which is the “TOTY” event. This brings some of the best cards in the game. However, they are hard to obtain.
This is the TOTY: In the “TOTY,” there are a total of 12 cards that have been brutally improved. Players like Mbappé, van Dijk, or Haaland are included and have values in the high 90s. They are among the best, but also the most expensive cards in the game.
The team was released over the past week in three phases. Defensive players, midfielders, and attackers were available for a few days in packs, along with new “TOTY” icons – until Friday evening, January 27.
Then the entire Team of the Year was put into packs all at once. Additionally, further cards were released: “Honourable Mentions,” which are players who narrowly missed out on the TOTY, but at least received a small upgrade. However, they are significantly weaker and less valuable than the 12 “real” TOTY cards.
Many players save their packs for the TOTY to have a chance of pulling one of the coveted cards. However, the chances are very low. This is currently proven by some Twitch streamers who invest a lot of money in the event.
Twitch streamers buy FIFA points, invest – But TOTY cards remain the exception
Many FIFA content creators demonstrate on platforms like Twitch and YouTube how they open packs in Ultimate Team. However, they also emphasize how low the chance of the best cards in FIFA 23 from packs is.
One example is one of the biggest streamers for FIFA 23, “Castro1021.” He is known for his loud personality but also for pack openings. Since the start of the TOTY event over a week ago, he has been investing a lot of FIFA points and pulling packs.
In his new video, he shows the evening when all TOTY cards landed in the packs. Here it should work, and he pulls his first TOTY card – that of goalkeeper Courtois. Shortly after, he pulls another TOTY. Again, Courtois.
He is very happy about the card and torpedoes his streaming room with confetti, but he also explains that he has already invested nearly 10 million coins over the week and nearly 1 million FIFA points.
Coins can be obtained through transfers or rewards in Ultimate Team, but not FIFA points. If you want to buy FIFA points in Ultimate Team, you can choose from various sets. The largest brings 12,000 points for 99.99 euros. If you calculate that up to a round million, it comes to over 8,000 euros in the course of a week.
Two other streamers invested points on the “Complete Team Night” as well.
One of them is “Bateson87,” who invested 100,000 FIFA points that evening (about 833 euros). He shows in the video that over the previous week he had already pulled two TOTYs and 3 TOTY icons. However, the 100,000 points that evening did not yield a single additional TOTY card, only three of the weaker “Honourable Mentions” (via YouTube).
YouTuber Danny Aarons also put 100,000 points into the TOTY evening but did not get a TOTY card (via YouTube): “I can’t believe it, I invested another 100,000 points and didn’t pull a TOTY.”
However, this was not his first opening: “Every pack opening costs 600 British pounds, and this is the ninth,” he calculates: “I won’t calculate it because it will make me sick. But guys, do the math – and you haven’t seen how I pull a TOTY yet.” In total, he has probably invested 5,400 pounds (around 6,100 euros).
Overall, the streamers are ultimately able to buy a large part of the TOTY cards on the transfer market from the sheer number of cards they pull from the packs.
But they simultaneously highlight how low the chances of TOTYs from packs are. Of course, you can be lucky and pull these cards. However, you shouldn’t count on it.
The chances of a TOTY player are in the single digits percent range
What are the chances? FIFA 23 shows in the shop how the chances of TOTY cards from packs look. The probabilities depend on the individual packs.
A few examples:
- With typical Premium Gold Packs, the chance is under one percent.
- In the current promo pack “Elite Pack Plus,” the chance is 1.1 percent. It contains 26 rare gold players, at least one of which is rated 86 or higher, and additionally, there is a Rare Players Pack included. It costs 150,000 coins or 3,000 FIFA points.
- The “New Year Special Set” still offers the highest chance, at 6.2%. The pack brings a FUT Hero, 75 rare gold players over 80, and at least six of them over 86.
However, the pack also costs a whopping 500,000 coins or 3,000 FIFA points. Additionally, the contents of the pack are untradable. Whatever you pull from it cannot be sold on the transfer market.
If you’re not into Ultimate Team, you can try the offline career mode in FIFA 23, for example. There, you can build your own club and lead it to the top of the world. Here you can find the best talents in FIFA 23.
