A well-known streamer is already addressing the Team of the Season (TOTS) in EA FC 25. Especially the rewards in the Weekend League frustrate him – and he is convinced: “It’s ruining the game.”
Which streamer is criticizing? Nick “runthefutmarket”, short “NickRTFM”, is one of the most well-known content creators for EA FC. He has been producing new videos about the football simulator daily for over 8 years. According to Sullygnome, he is among the 5 most watched FC-25 streamers on Twitch in the last six months.
His content is very diverse and ranges from player testing, tactical recommendations to pack openings.
In one of his latest videos on YouTube, NickRTFM complained about the TOTS event in FC 25. He particularly focused on the upgrades from the UT Champions Weekend League rewards.
Why are the rewards ruining the TOTS? One thing in particular seems not well thought out by EA, NickRTFM asserts. In the best upgrades, there are now not only players from one TOTS but from 2. This applies to both the popular red player choice items and the TOTS upgrade packs from the Champions Finals.
The expanded player pool leads to the situation that you would mainly pull the weakest and cheapest players of the respective TOTS. Thus, there is hardly any incentive to achieve a strong outcome in the Weekend League.
After the video, we will show you why NickRTFM might also be statistically correct with his observation.
More than half of the reward players worth under 100,000 coins
This is what the player pool of the new Premier League TOTS rewards looks like: Due to the extension of rewards to 2 TOTS, there are 36 players in the player pool:
- 22 TOTS from the Premier League
- 14 TOTS from the Barclays Women’s Super League
These players can then be categorized into 4 categories based on their market value and assigned a number of possible TOTS:
- Category 4: TOTS up to 100,000 coins (20 players)
- Category 3: TOTS from 115,000 to 500,000 coins (8 players)
- Category 2: TOTS from 500,000 to one million coins (4 players)
- Category 1: TOTS over one million coins (4 players)
With 20 players, Category 4, with the cheapest cards, is by far the most represented. It accounts for more than half of all possible TOTS that can be obtained from the rewards. From the coveted Category 1 and 2, there are just 8 players available.
What can we deduce from this? The probability of getting a truly worthwhile TOTS from Category 1 or 2 is low. Even the red player choice items from the Weekend League rewards, where you can choose from up to 5 TOTS, are thus devalued.
Using his Champions Rewards for the Premier League TOTS from FC 24, NickRTFM illustrates why adding the women’s TOTS in the upgrades is said to have ruined the Weekend League rewards:
In FC 24, Nick RTFM pulled cards from his red player choices (limited to 1 TOTS) from the Champions rewards with the Premier League TOTS cards of Saliba, Garnacho, and Díaz cards, all of which cost over 500,000 coins and thus belonged to Category 2 or even 1.
In FC 25, due to the expanded player pool, one would mostly receive cards that are of no value. This is also corroborated by numerous posts on Reddit criticizing the previous TOTS event with its rewards:
- Under the post “TOTS is not the same anymore in FC 25” on Reddit, you can follow such a discussion.
Strong TOTS from upgrade packs of league SBCs unlikely
These are the upgrade packs of the league SBC for TOTS: For exchanging 11 rare gold players, you will receive 1 premium league upgrade pack in the Squad Building Challenges (SBCs), which contains 11 gold players (3 of which are rare) from the 1st leagues of men and women of a country.
These packs almost always guaranteed TOTS cards in EA FC and FIFA if you invested enough time in grinding these upgrades and opened many of them. In FC 25, however, the patience of the players is put to a hard test.
Why are strong TOTS unlikely even from league SBCs? According to NickRTFM, adding the women’s league has had negative effects on the SBC packs.
Instead of the already low chance of pulling one of the 13 more valuable TOTS cards from categories 1, 2, or 3 from a pool of around 400 gold professionals from the Premier League, the number of cheap professionals or non-TOTS players in these upgrade packs has further increased. With the inclusion of the women’s league, the player pool expanded to around 560 gold professionals and 20 worthless TOTS from category 4.
As proof, NickRTFM states that he has done 90 league upgrades and only pulled 3 TOTS from the cheapest category. This is a shame for 900 exchanged rare gold cards.
The chance of getting a strong TOTS thus seems to be lower in FC 25 than usual. All the greater will be the joy when one does pull a valuable TOTS card. And all the greater will be the annoyance when one simply gives away a strong TOTS: TOTS in EA FC 25: Player loses 750,000 coins due to typical mistake
