<![CDATA[FIFA Ultimate Team]]> Follow FIFA Ultimate Team, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/fifa-ultimate-team Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:00:23 +0200 <![CDATA[FIFA 22 Future Stars Promo Event]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeupeSD-eDKTcud3hDS9njgCr
FIFA 22 Future Stars Promo Event

FUTURE STARS

The FIFA 22 Future Stars event is centered on hot young prospects, who are released in packs with upgraded ratings and stats.
The Future Stars event was released for the first ever in FIFA 19.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 Future Stars promo offers.
11/02 18:00 (Fri) 7d Future Stars T2
11/02 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
06/02 18:00 (Sun) 5d Future Stars MR1
04/02 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
04/02 18:00 (Fri) 7d Future Stars T1
Release DateDurContent
Future Stars Offers from previous years.
Click or tap on the edition you would like to know the offers.
During the event, two teams of Future Stars player items are released, plus two mini-releases.

Team 1
Available in Packs: February 04 – February 11

Mini-Release Team 1
Available in Packs: February 06 – February 11

Team 2
Available in Packs: February 11 – February 18

Mini-Release Team 2
Available in Packs: February 13 – February 18
FIFA 22 Future Stars FAQ section.

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]]> Thu, 13 Jan 2022 02:00:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeupeSD-eDKTcud3hDS9njgCr <![CDATA[Vote for the TOTY of FIFA 22 Ultimate Team]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeurnVgVBP89eBSuZukmJ4mr4
FIFA 22 Vote for the TOTY

VOTE FOR THE TOTY

In FIFA 22 Ultimate Teamn, the final TOTY selection will be determined by a combination of EA and Community Votes.
You can cast your votes once per day, so remember to come back to this page regularly, to vote again.
FIFA 22 TOTY Goalkeepers Nominees

EA Sports has selected a shortlist of 7 goalkeepers, based on their real-world performance in the previous year. Only one goalkeeper will feature in the final Team of the Year. You can vote for your favourite.


Which goalkeeper would you like to see on the final TOTY?

The nominees will be announced on January 9, 2022.
You can cast your votes once per day, so remember to come back to this page regularly, to vote again.
FIFA 22 TOTY Defenders Nominees

EA Sports has selected a shortlist of 18 defenders, based on their real-world performance in the previous year. Only four defenders will feature in the final Team of the Year. You can vote for up to four players.


Which defenders would you like to see on the final TOTY?

The nominees will be announced on January 9, 2022.
You can cast your votes once per day, so remember to come back to this page regularly, to vote again.
FIFA 22 TOTY Midfielders Nominees

EA Sports has selected a shortlist of 19 midfielders, based on their real-world performance in the previous year. Only three midfielders will feature in the final Team of the Year. You can vote for up to three players.


Which midfielders would you like to see on the final TOTY?

The nominees will be announced on January 8, 2022.
You can cast your votes once per day, so remember to come back to this page regularly, to vote again.


EA Sports has selected a shortlist of 26 forwards, based on their real-world performance in the previous year. Only three midfielders will feature in the final Team of the Year. You can vote for up to three players.


Please, select three forwards for the Team of the Year.

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

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]]> Fri, 07 Jan 2022 01:00:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeurnVgVBP89eBSuZukmJ4mr4 <![CDATA[FIFA 22 Headliners Tracker]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuoKbdZxPg4CLAp41t9tiERU
FIFA 22 Headliners Tracker

HEADLINERS TRACKER

FIFA 22 Headliners items are automatically upgraded when they earn a qualifying performance-based in-form or if their club achieves four back to back domestic league wins (first time only).

FIFA 22 HEADLINERS TRACKER

List of every single Headliners item, their potential and confirmed upgrades. Click or tap on a rating below to see the respective Headliners item.
Headliners are a curated selection of players who are on an exceptional run of form through the season so far. These cards feature a starter upgrade and boost in rating and stats every time they meet the following conditions:
1) earn a TOTW or MOTM item.
2) their team win four domestic league matches in a row.

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]]> Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:00:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuoKbdZxPg4CLAp41t9tiERU <![CDATA[FIFA 22 Team of the Year Promo – TOTY Players and Offers List]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuoKbdZxPg4CLETXPGaG87AR
FIFA 22 Team of the Year

TEAM OF THE YEAR

The FIFA 22 Team of the Year event features the most wanted themed items, promo packs, objectives and squad building challenges.
The TOTY event was released for the first ever in FIFA 13.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 Team of the Year promo offers.
31/01 18:00 (Mon) 1d Promo Packs
30/01 18:00 (Sun) 1d Promo Packs
29/01 18:00 (Sat) 1d Promo Packs
28/01 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
27/01 18:00 (Thu) 5d TOTY XI
27/01 18:00 (Thu) 1d Promo Packs
26/01 18:00 (Wed) 1d Promo Packs
25/01 18:00 (Tue) 2d TOTY GK & Defenders
25/01 18:00 (Tue) 1d Promo Packs
24/01 18:00 (Mon) 1d Promo Packs
23/01 18:00 (Sun) 2d TOTY Midfielders
23/01 18:00 (Sun) 1d Promo Packs
22/01 18:00 (Sat) 1d Promo Packs
21/01 18:00 (Fri) 2d TOTY Forwards
21/01 18:00 (Fri) -d TOTY Announcement
21/01 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
00/01 18:00 (Day) – Voting Close
00/01 18:00 (Day) – Voting Open
Release DateDurContent
TOTY Offers from previous years.
Click or tap on the edition you would like to know the offers.
Shortlist of all nominees for the FIFA 22 Team of the Year by position.
FIFA 22 Team of the Year items are available in packs in the following dates:

Forwards – January 21 to January 23, 2022
Midfielders – January 23 to January 25, 2022
Defenders – January 25 to January 27, 2022
Goalkeepers – January 25 to January 27, 2022
Full Team – January 27 to February 01, 2022
12th Man – January 28 to February 01, 2022
Honourable Mentions – January 28 to February 01, 2022
FIFA 22 TOTY FAQ section.

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]]> Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:00:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuoKbdZxPg4CLETXPGaG87AR <![CDATA[FIFA 22 Headliners Promo Event]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuobAAKuCFu6uLmyhX6zo8SW
FIFA 22 Headliners Promo Event

HEADLINERS

The FIFA 22 Headliner event is focused on players who are on an exceptional run of form during the season so far, featuring tdynamicitems, promo packs, objectives and exclusive squad building challenges.
The Headliners event was released for the first ever in FIFA 19.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 Headliners promo offers.
07/01 18:00 (Fri) 7d Headliners T2
07/01 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
31/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d Themed SBC
31/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d Player Objective
31/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d Player SBC
31/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d Headliners T1
31/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
Release DateDurContent
HEADLINERS TRACKER
Headliners Offers from previous years.
Click or tap on the edition you would like to know the offers.
During the event, two teams of Headliners player items are released, plus two mini-releases.

Team 1
Available in Packs: December 31 – January 07

Mini-Release Team 1
Available in Packs: January 02 – January 07

Team 2
Available in Packs: January 07 – January 14

Mini-Release Team 2
Available in Packs: January 09 – January 14
FIFA 22 Headliners FAQ section.

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]]> Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:00:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuobAAKuCFu6uLmyhX6zo8SW <![CDATA[FIFA 22 Winter Wildcard Event]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuoF5KcLo3Qq3Yvmyuk5fxzE
FIFA 22 Winter Wildcard

WINTER WILDCARD

The Winter Wildcard event features themed items in packs, promo packs, objectives and daily puzzle and themed players SBCs.
The Winter Wildcard Event was released for the first ever in FIFA 22.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 Winter Wildcard offers.
31/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Player WW
30/12 18:00 (Thu) 1d Player WW
29/12 18:00 (Wed) 1d Player WW
28/12 18:00 (Tue) 1d Player WW
27/12 18:00 (Mon) 1d Player WW
26/12 18:00 (Sun) 1d Player WW
25/12 18:00 (Sat) 1d Player WW
24/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Player WW
23/12 18:00 (Thu) 1d Player WW
22/12 18:00 (Wed) 1d Player WW
22/12 18:00 (Wed) 1d Silver Star WW
21/12 18:00 (Tue) 1d Player WW
20/12 18:00 (Mon) 1d Player WW
19/12 18:00 (Sun) 1d Player WW
18/12 18:00 (Sat) 1d Player WW
17/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Player WW
17/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
17/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Player SS Obj
17/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d Winter Wildcard T1
Release DateDurContent
FIFA 22 Winter Wildcard player items are available in packs in the following dates:

Team 1 – December 17 to December 24, 2021
FIFA 22 Winter WIldcard FAQ section.

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]]> Sun, 12 Dec 2021 14:00:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuoF5KcLo3Qq3Yvmyuk5fxzE <![CDATA[FIFA 22 FUT Versus Promo Event – Themed Players and Offers List]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeupuB3HTTrg04Yfjc6hd5eWF
FIFA 22 FUT Versus

FUT VERSUS

The FUT Versus event features themed items in packs (2 versions), promo packs, objectives and SBCs.
The FUT Versus Event is being released for the first ever in FIFA 22.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 FUT Versus offers.
13/12 18:00 (Mon) 1d Promo Packs
13/12 18:00 (Mon) 4d FUT Versus T2
10/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
10/12 18:00 (Fri) 3d FUT Versus T1
Release DateDurContent
FIFA 22 FUT Versus player items are available in packs in the following dates:

Team 1 (Fire) – December 10 to December 13, 2021
Team 2 (Ice) – December 13 to December 17, 2021
FIFA 22 FUT Versus FAQ section.

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]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:30:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeupuB3HTTrg04Yfjc6hd5eWF <![CDATA[How is Chosen the Team of the Week of FIFA 22 Ultimate Team]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuo7hernvgiATzRQaTQYXBS9

Every single Wednesday, Electronic Arts releases a Team of the Week featuring the most in-form players. However, the way they are selected is unknown to most of the community. Find out on this page how TOTW players are chosen on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team.

 

FIFA Ultimate Team’s Team of the Week

Introducing the TOTW

Since FUT 10, every single week EA Sports selects twenty-three players of any category that have played well the previous week in real-life and join them in a single team. That team is called Team of the Week and you can play against them in the ‘TOTW Challenge’. These cards are released as In Form for that week only and feature boosted stats. In the week a player gets his TOTW card in packs, it is impossible to find his regular card there. The TOTW players from the starting eleven also have their card art altered with default images being replaced by special dynamic ones.

Except in special cases, the TOTWs are released non-stop for a year, from September. All matches from the domestic leagues licensed in the game are likely to result in a TOTW card. On the dates scheduled by FIFA to international qualifiers matches, domestic leagues stop and TOTW can be formed by players from these matches (friendlies are not taken into account). Most of the matches take place over the weekend, but no games are excluded just because they take place on a different day (yes, Monday or mid-week games can also receive these IFs). Players that stand out on a Tuesday, or later days, are candidates for the following week’s TOTW. When there are not many matches to be played, as in July, the batch of selected players can be shortened to eighteen instead of the usual twenty-three.

These black cards have become more important on FUT 17, when FUT Champions and Ones to Watch cards were introduced. The rewards of the most competitive FUT game mode are based on untradeable items that replicate the TOTW of each week. In addition, Ones to Watch and Headliners investors are constantly alert to new TOTW to see if their cards will be upgraded or not.

What many people do not know is the way how TOTW players of FIFA 22 Ultimate Team are chosen. That is why we have decided to release this guide that clarifies how this is done.

 
How EA Chooses FIFA 22 Players for the Team of the Week

Click on the image to see the complete list of FIFA 22 TOTWs

 

How EA Chooses FIFA 22 Players for the Team of the Week

Predicting a TOTW with a good success rate

Team of the Week items are announced and released every Wednesday at 6pm (UTC time). However, they begin to come to life much earlier. Although EA does not reveal anything about TOTW’s backstage, the truth is that a few years ago a game developer uncovered in an interview that his team met every Monday morning to make a first plan of what would be the team of the week. For this, and according to the producer Niels Diekmann, they have the precious help of the weekly reports produced by an EA’s department based in Cologne (Germany): the FIFA Data Collection and Licensing Group. As soon as the list of 23 players is closed, it goes through several other departments until they reach the official social networks where they are announced: licenses, brand, QA testing, design, strategic partners and marketing.

With the increasing importance of the TOTWs, more and more people try to predict the official choices. If you also want to do it, you should know the criteria EA uses to select the new cards.

01 GOALS SCORED
This is the number one factor when deciding who enters in the team of the week. After all, goals are the most important thing in football. Defenders that score more than one goal in a single match are almost guaranteed. On the other hand, the strikers may need more than one goal to be in. Three or more goals are almost always a passport to the TOTW, regardless of the player’s position.

02 ASSISTS
Except for goalkeepers, it is not very common to see players who have not made any assist or scored a goal on the TOTW. The importance of assists is such that they are often analyzed together with goals in a single criterion (G & A).

03 DISTRIBUTION BY POSITIONS
Even if 23 defenders score a haul in a single weekend (it will be easier to pull Messi from a Gold Pack), someone will have to be left out. Players playing in the same positions compete with each other for a limited number of spots. EA has set a minimum and a maximum amount of players for each position:
– 2 to 3 goalkeepers (two in 80% of the times)
– 4 to 6 defenders, regardless of whether they are full-backs or central-backs (five in 70% of the times)
– 7 to 12 midfielders, regardless of whether they are wingers or central-midfielders (nine to eleven in 60% of the times)
– 5 to 8 forwards, regardless of whether they are centre-forwards or strikers (six to seven in 60% of the times).

04 MATCH RESULT
The better the result, the more chances a player has to be named to the team of the week. However, a draw does not leave him out. This happens mainly to players of inferior teams that manage to surprise the most popular ones.

05 TEAM’S AND PLAYER’S POPULARITY
The popularity of players and teams is increasingly taken into account. After all, the community likes to see in the TOTW the players they follow and not mere strangers. Sometimes, this popularity is not related with the biggest clubs or the best players, but rather with the cards that are highly valued by the FUT community, such as the fastest players or the most OP in a certain edition.

06 PREVIOUS TOTW CARDS
When assigning a new TOTW card, EA always checks the amount of IF cards a player eventually already has and when has he received the latest card. If he has been awarded many times with these cards, it is likely that priority will be given to other players. Also if he has already received it two weeks before, most likely he will have to wait for another time. And yes, it already happened a player to be selected in two consecutive TOTWs but it is extremely rare.

07 DISTRIBUTION BY RATING
When the top domestic leagues have not yet started the new season, it is common to see the TOTWs to be filled with bronze and silver cards. However, in the remaining weeks, EA tries to build teams as balanced as possible. It is unlikely that someday you will see Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar in the same TOTW. Generally, the rating distribution of TOTW players follows these ranges:
– five to eight 85+ rated cards (which affects the tiers bronze 1 and 2 Weekend League rewards);
– ten to fourteen 80-84 rated cards;
– three to five 75-79 rated cards;
– up to two bronze or silver cards.

08 LEAGUE
Everyone knows that the players from the most popular leagues are picked more times for the team of the week. This is the case for those who play in the Premier League, responsible for filling around 20% of the slots, even when the athletes are playing by their national teams. Serie A, LaLiga and Bundesliga compete against each other to see which one is the second league more represented in the TOTW, with around 12% each, while Ligue 1 stands at 8%. Still, there are always several leagues represented every week.

09 OPPONENT’S DIFFICULTY
To be decisive in a win over Liverpool or over Burnley is not exactly the same, isn’t it? This is also reflected in EA’s choices. The greater is the achievement, the more chances a player has to receive an IF card.

10 CONCEDED GOALS
This one also applies to defenders but it is more important for goalkeepers. A player in this position who has conceded goals will hardly be part of EA’s choices.

11 SAVED PENALTIES
Nothing gives more visibility to a goalkeeper than to save a penalty. Those who achieve this and do not conced any goal are strong candidates for the Team of the Week.

12 SAVES
Do not concede any goal, save a penalty and make many saves. In this order, these are the main criteria used for the selection of goalkeepers. Has anyone got all three? Jackpot!

13 STATS AND SCORE
Specialized press and statistical sites, such as Whoscored, are also taken into account when EA is choosing the TOTW players. Whoever reaches a score 10 does not have his spot guaranteed but gets closer to get it.

14 MAN OF THE MATCH
Moving slowly to the bottom of this list, it’s time to know the least important factors. Although with little relevance, it seems that, in some cases, EA uses the prizes awarded by domestic leagues to refine their choices.

15 MINUTES PLAYED
A player who gets in at ten minutes of the end will have to be truly brilliant (and decisive!) in order to convince EA. In other hand, leaving the match earlier, few or no implications will have to the TOTW selections.

16 BOOKINGS
A player has already been sent off and still made part of EA’s choices. However, this is very rare. The yellow cards do not seem to have any influence.

17 RIVALRY
In addition to the opponent’s difficulty, EA also takes into account, on a much smaller scale, the rivalry between two teams. A player who decides a match in favor of his team against the main rival, always gains more visibility.

18 OTHER RESTRICTIONS
More than a game, FIFA 22 Ultimate Team is a business. And like all big business, everything has to be planned in detail. The common player does not have the slightest idea of the many situations that have to be planned day to day to the point where they can condition the players selected to the TOTW. Hence, there are choices that we will never understand because they were forced to happen in the interests of the game’s producer and its strategic partners.

 
 

The Ratings of TOTW Players

What ratings are assigned to TOTW cards?

When the first TOTWs came out, in FIFA 10, there was not a rule that defined the increase each card would have. Over time, EA have standardized these upgrades, so that everyone could know in advance the rating of any potential new black card. Today, most of the community knows that, to a player with a NIF 77 rated item, an 81 rating will be assigned if he receives a TOTW card and an 84 if it happens again. If you are one of those who do not realize why a player gets an increase of 3 points while another only gets one point, it’s time to learn how the ratings of TOTW cards are assigned. All you need to know is in the following table.

NIF
IF
IF2
IF3
IF4
IF5
75 81 84 86 87 88
76 81 84 86 87 88
77 81 84 86 87 88
78 82 84 86 87 88
79 82 84 86 87 88
80 83 85 86 87 88
81 84 86 87 88 89
82 84 86 87 88 89
83 85 86 87 88 89
84 86 87 88 89 90
85 86 87 88 89 90
86 87 88 89 90 91
87 88 89 90 91 92
88 89 90 91 92 93
89 90 91 92 93 94
90 91 92 93 94 95

 

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]]> Sun, 05 Dec 2021 02:00:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuo7hernvgiATzRQaTQYXBS9 <![CDATA[FIFA 22 Team of the Group Stage – TOTGS Players and Offers List]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuqroKi-pBuPm5u9CxXrVx4c
FIFA 22 Team of the Group Stage Promo Event

TEAM OF THE GROUP STAGE

The FIFA 22 Team of the Group Stage event features themed items, promo packs, objectives and exclusive squad building challenges.
The TOTGS event was released for the first ever in FIFA 16.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 Team of the Group Stage promo offers.
03/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d TOTGS Team 1
03/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
Release DateDurContent
TOTGS Offers from previous years.
Click or tap on the edition you would like to know the offers.
FIFA 22 Team of the Group Stage player items are available in packs in the following dates:

Team 1 – December 03 to December 10, 2021
FIFA 22 TOTGS FAQ section.

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]]> Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:00:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuqroKi-pBuPm5u9CxXrVx4c <![CDATA[FIFA 22 Showdown Players Guide]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuo9T7V9G7Tci1RpWVnEcNkS
FIFA 22 Showdown Players

SHOWDOWN PLAYERS

FIFA 22 Showdown items are boosted based on results of selected real-world football matches.
Q: What is a Showdown item?
A: Showdown items are unique items featuring improved ratings and stats.

Q: When were Showdown items released for the first time?
A: Showdown items were released for the first time in FIFA 20.

Q: How are chosen these players?
A: One player from each side of selected upcoming real-world football matches are selected and made available via squad building challenges for a limited time.

Q: Can these items be improved?
A: Sure. The player from the winning team will receive a +2 OVR stats boost. In the event of a draw, both items will receive a +1 OVR boost.

Q: Are these items available in FUT packs or in the transfer market?
A: No, Showdown items are not available in packs and cannot be sold. They are usually untradeable and you can only earn them via SBCs.
The updated list of all FIFA 22 Showdown SBCs.
All FIFA 22 Showdown items release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
00/00 18:00 (Day) 0d Showdown Player 1
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– 		Showdown Player Item
– Pack
– Pack
Release DateDurContent

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]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2021 02:00:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeuo9T7V9G7Tci1RpWVnEcNkS <![CDATA[How to Choose the Players for your Team on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JA26vHZNeupehEdy1eKSpyoxzwoq1nFt

You don’t know where to start building your squad? Are you still undecided between two players? Do you need to decide on one more position? It doesn’t matter what your problem is, we’re here to help you. Learn how to choose the best players for your squad on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team.

 

How to Choose the Best Players on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team

The four criteria

Ultimate Team differs itself from the other game modes by allowing each one of us to build a preferred dream team. One that we’re identified with, that we feel like it’s ours. What makes this such a unique thing is the fact that we all have different tastes.

In order for us to build our team, it doesn’t matter if we know who are the best players or not because this matter is quite subjective. What matters is knowing which players will fit better in our playing style, our formation, budget and squad. This isn’t always an easy task, after all new player’s cards keep coming along through the season, but we’ll give you all the tools needed to build better. Find out who’s your team in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team.

In our opinion, you should pick your players based on the following four criteria:

1 Chemistry
2 Attributes
3 More Characteristics
4 Price


 

First Criteria: Chemistry

Your starting point

It’s unavoidable. When we want to start a squad from scratch, the first criteria for selecting the players is always chemistry. It forces us to plan how we’re going to spend the coins with antecedence and makes us base it all in one league or nationality. If you have the experience, you might as well choose to build a hybrid squad but you’ll always be subject to the laws of Chemistry.

For people who don’t know, the chemistry affects a player’s performance on the pitch. A player with low chemistry tends, for example, to fail at passing and shooting more easily. In order for you to build good chemistry, besides having your players play in their preferred position, you should put them alongside others that have an element in common: same club, same league and/or nationality. The easiest way to do so is to create teams full of players exclusively from one league or of one nationality. If you want to find the right league for you, please click here.

How to Choose the Players for your Team on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team

When you build a squad you’ll obviously be conditioned to the players’ positions. You must choose 18 players and at least one should be a goalkeeper. Then, if you don’t want to have chemistry negatively affected, you’ll have to buy players for the positions you need, according to your formation. They won’t always have to rigorously match since you can use position modifiers, but surely you’ll understand you can’t have all 18 players of the same position.

The question here is how far you can go and disrespect the chemistry. For example, will my performance be that affected if I use a centre-back as a left or a right-back if I see there aren’t good options for those actual positions? Most people will respect chemistry rigorously but it doesn’t necessarily have to be like this. It’s true that we do advise you not to use a player with individual chemistry below 7, but it depends on the alternative. Although there’s no concrete indication, general rule, Messi playing as ST will do better than Griezmann, who is most frequently used for this position on La Liga squads.

If you want to use a player outside of his natural position, you first need to check if he’s got the necessary attributes to play in this new position. This adaptation only makes sense if there’s a notable quality difference between this and the best player you can get for the position, in a way that the change compensates the chemistry loss. Besides, it’s recommended that the positions have some relation to one another so that chemistry is not so roughly affected.

If you try adapting players to new positions, you’ll certainly be surprised with the slight loss of performance the player will suffer, even considering high chemistry reductions. However, it’s important to mention that you should never abuse using these adaptations. If you do it with more than one player in the same team, you’ll start to affect not only the player’s individual chemistry but also the whole squad’s chemistry.


 

Second Criteria: Attributes

What makes the players play differently from each other

Let’s start by clarify one thing: players are no more than numbers. Although EA works hard to make us believe the players have unique identities, here’s the truth: they’re mere numbers and should be analyzed as such. We do know this isn’t quite easy to accept for people who have experienced unique moments that once connected them emotionally to the players. Deep down it’s good to believe they’re something more than numbers, but doing that is just avoiding the truth, sadly. The player’s physique isn’t what affects his performance, not his traits or specialities (many of them don’t exist on Ultimate Team) either. It’s all on the attributes. They’re the ones responsible to make us feel like each player is different. And they’re the ones you should carefully analyze when planning your squad. Many times one player’s perception changes, according to the game’s difficulty, formation or for any of the dozens of other reasons there are. Still, attributes are the most accurate element that we have in order to compare players.

For pure laziness or lack of knowledge, many people make the terrible mistake of evaluating one player’s quality according to his overall rating. It just shows, how popular and good in specific attributes a player is, so that makes them be compared to others. The rating is NOT an average or reflex of all the attributes. It reveals nothing about the player’s true technical, mental and physical attributes. Sometimes, FIFA 22 players with lower ratings can be better choices.

On FIFA 22 Ultimate Team there are more than 30 attributes that can only be viewed in-game, in the active squad & squad management menu, or else in a database. You’re the only one who knows for sure about the attributes your players need because that’s according to your playing style. If, for example, you like to cross abuse, it’s preferred for you to have wingers with good crossing attributes and strikers with good heading. On the other hand, if you like playing on counter attacks, it’s important for you to have fast attackers and midfielders with good passing. All this is very intuitive, you need to look at your squad line and think about what you want to do with it. If you’re still having a hard time, we’ll help you.

FIFA 22 Attributes

As we said, the player choice should be based on his attributes. Since they’re so many, when we play we get the feeling that it’s not possible to choose them only calling upon the numbers. However, we forget that the numbers are much more accurate than our playing experience, which is corrupted by many factors: our inspiration, the opponent’s quality, changes in our team, several events during the game, etc… We’re not saying you shouldn’t choose players basing yourself on the experience you’ve had with them, but you should form an opinion only after a minimum number of 10 to 15 matches. Besides, most of the time we can’t experiment with all the players we want to come up with the best team, so a good analysis of the players’ attributes first will surely be of great use.

But how is this analysis made? First of all, it’s important to know what each attribute means, what can be done clicking here. Then, it’s also important to realize that the players with the highest attributes are not necessarily the best. Our interest here is to find the right players for our squad, and this is done once we identify the characteristics they should have according to what we can afford, of course. Imagine, for example, that you’re looking for a centre-back to play between two other centre-backs and his main role is to defend. Tackles, Interception, Marking, Jumping, Strength and Heading Acc are the main characteristics he should have. If you wanted to find the ideal player you’d just have to find the one with the highest sum of these attributes. Obviously, it would be good to have the other attributes high, but these are the ones you should focus on for this example. However, things aren’t so simple as this (you already find it complicated?). It’s just that among these attributes, some are more important than others and you should pay attention to this. You should give weights for each one of the attributes so that you can find a weighted average to reflect the perfection of the player you’re looking for. For this example, you could define Tackle worth 35%, Interception 10%, Marking 20%, Jumping 15%, Strength 15% and Heading Acc just 5%.

Even more rigorously, you could create a formula based on your playing style and formation, featuring coefficients that would reflect the importance of the other attributes, work rates, star skills and weak foot. The ideal thing would be to create one weight for each attribute in order to get an absolute final value that wouldn’t depend on anything else. However, besides this being way too painful to do, making all these weights up would be hard for people who don’t perfectly dominate the game. This is why there are other simpler strategies in order to determine how good a player is for our squad, and still that would allow us to come to sufficiently good conclusions.

For people that want to keep things as simple as they possibly can, we recommend them to analyze the basic attributes instead of the IG attributes. This is their role, and this is how most people select their players. The basic attributes are the six face stats shown on the player’s card: pace, shooting, passing, dribbling, defending and physicality. They’re no more than an average between the In-Game attributes. In order to choose a player, you should focus on the basic attributes and casually on one or other IG attribute that you think is crucial for the situation. For example, continuing the case we presented above with the centre back, all IG stats could be substituted by only one, defending, which doesn’t only reflect all these attributes but also weighs each one’s importance for the final stat. So you’d just need to put that analysis along with strength, which isn’t included for defending, but physicality. For that reason, it’s important that we know what each of the six basic attributes corresponds to. Only this way we’ll be able to simplify everything, reducing our analysis to these attributes and then taking a peek at the IG stats we consider important. This knowledge also gives us the possibility to adjust the weights according to our preferences. Now that you’re aware of the importance of the basic attributes, let’s see what they’re made of:

Pace | Sprint Speed (55%), Acceleration (45%)
Shooting | Finishing (45%), Long Shots (20%), Shot Power (20%), Volleys (5%), Att. Positioning (5%), Penalties (5%)
Passing | Short Pass (35%), Crossing (20%), Vision (20%), Long Pass (15%), Curve (5%), FK Accuracy (5%)
Dribbling | Dribbling (50%), Ball COntrol (35%), Agility (10%), Balance (5%)
Defending | Stand Tackle (30%), Defensive Awareness (30%), Interceptions (20%), Heading Acc (10%), Slide Tackle (10%)
Physical | Strength (50%), Stamina (25%), Aggression (20%), Jumping (5%)

If you’re not very experienced, probably you’ll have a hard time identifying which attributes to give more attention to when choosing a player. We don’t know what’s your playing style, but according to your formation and player position, we can suggest the ones that seem like the most important ones. This information can be seen here, along with the work rates we judge ideal for each one of these situations.

In general, these are the attributes we value the most according to the positions:
GK | Reflexes and Diving
CB| Defending, Physicality and Pace for at least one of the centre backs
RB/LB | Defending, Pace and eventually Dribbling for RWB’s and LWB’s
CDM | Defending, Passing and Physicality
CM/CAM | Passing and Dribbling
Wingers | Pace, Dribbling and Passing
CF/ST | Shooting, Physicality and Pace

Face Stats for Goealkeepers

All this hassle for us to find the ideal players for our squad may look a bit complex since there are so many attributes to take into account. However, it goes downhill when it comes to choosing a goalkeeper. They’ve got only 6 basic attributes. They don’t have IG stats, nor skill moves or work rates. Nothing. Your formation and playing style have no influence on this choice either. They’re simply formed by seven numbers (yes, besides the attributes there’s his height!). This is what makes goalkeepers seem different to each other. You can abdicate yourself from giving attention to feedback saying this is or that goalkeeper concedes easily frequently. This is no good. You’ve seen two or three people complaining about that goalkeeper but, if you look closely, you’ll find more people saying the opposite. The only way you know if a goalkeeper is good or not is through his stats. In our opinion, the descending order for the importance of goalkeeper attributes is: reflexes, diving, handling, positioning, speed and kicking. It’s up to you to weigh them. If you’re defensively passive when the opponent is roaming through the surroundings of your area, you should also give special attention to your goalkeeper’s height, because when they’re shorter the probability for a finesse strike to go in is higher.


 

Third Criteria: More Characteristics

Height, preferred foot, weak foot, skill moves and work rates

Using a simple spreadsheet program you’ll be able to find the perfect player for your squad. You just need to select the most important attributes and give each one a weight. But then, what if some of the player’s characteristics weren’t measurable? That would be complicated. The truth is that, besides the attributes, you should also watch out for the five characteristics that define them:

Height
Although it isn’t decisive, you should pay attention to the player’s height, especially if he’s a striker, a centre back or a goalkeeper, although it’s also useful for the CDM position. A taller player that has good jumping will win more headers.

Preferred Foot
Carefully verify if you’re using your players correctly for their position on the field, sometimes you should change their side in order to favor their preferred foot.

Weak Foot
This is the type of characteristic that should be decisive when choosing one between two players or more. It’s more important for the player to have good attributes than more weak foot stars, of course, but that’s still interesting for us. If you’re thinking of buying a finisher, don’t forget to check if he’s got a good weak foot. You’ll certainly notice the difference on the pitch between a player with low and high weak foot.

Skill Moves
Players with more skill moves stars will get past the opponents more easily. They can also execute more complex technical movements although this might be more of a show-off than an actual contribution to the team. Most 3 stars skill moves are as effective as (or more than) 5 stars skill moves. Like it is for the Weak Foot, the Skills Moves should determine which player you’re choosing, unless you’re a natural skiller that doesn’t need the means to success.

Work Rates
Unlike the others, this is for us, with absolutely no doubt, a characteristic that you should never look away from when choosing a player. This isn’t where you should start the player selection, do this at the point where you already have a shortlist so this works as an effective eliminatory factor. Avoid low/low work rates, or high/high on players of low stamina. Low offensive work rates on attackers or defensive work rates on defenders are usually bad choices. According to your tactic, playing style and the players you already have you should manage work rates in order for one to compensate the other. For example, two centre backs with low defending work rates is unacceptable, but it’s okay to have just one.


 

Fourth Criteria: Price

It’s all about money

Well then, shouldn’t this be one of the first criteria? Good question, but we’re already counting that you left Ronaldo and Messi out because you know you don’t have enough coins for them. What we’re going to do now is the opposite. Instead of choosing the cheapest players, we’ll choose the most expensive ones. Are you confused? We’ll explain.

By this part of the article we suppose you already have a pretty good idea of who you want for your squad. In the worst scenario, you’re striving to choose one between two players. Which one should you choose? You probably have a favourite but you just need the final word. Something that will help you decide at a bigger consciousness. Have you searched for someone else’s personal opinion of experience hoping to know if he’s really what you’re looking for? That’s no good. This isn’t the right thing to do. We have nothing against other people’s opinions, but basing your choice on two or three opinions is letting someone else decide for you, really. What you have to do is ask for thousands or millions of people’s opinions. And how do you do that? Well, exactly: it goes by the price. It’s in the title after all, isn’t it?

In a universe so big as the Ultimate Team player’s, there’s no room for mistakes. Bad decisions are easily absorbed by the immensity of good ones. The community isn’t stupid and puts a lot of time into a game that, excuse redundancy, learns to learn. There’s no better way to show how good a player is than setting a price as high as his quality. Nobody likes paying more for a player that they think isn’t worth anything, and only some manage to pay less than his average price. In other words: are you undecided between two players? Go for the one that costs more.

Before you present any arguments to contradict this strategy, let us list a few exceptions to this rule that you’re about to know of:

What about the rest?
So you just choose the most expensive one and it’s all settled? This isn’t what we said. For some reason, this is the fourth criteria. Until you got here you’ve at least taken a look at the players’ attributes and selected those that best fit in your playing style and formation. This is just a tiebreaker factor that will certainly work for most people. The more similar the players are to each other, the higher will be this strategy’s success rate.

But don’t prices change?
Of course, they do. Sometimes players who used to be more expensive become cheaper than their concurrent. If you look closely this happens only once in the game, except for rare situations in which a player will make the difference in real life. In the end, this is proof that the community is alert. What happens is that when the game is released, prices are according to people’s initial expectations. Only after some learning and experimenting time prices will be set for more or less, according to whether the player has been revealed worse or better than expected. For that reason, you should only look at the players’ prices as a choice factor after the first 15 days of the game. On FIFA 22 this was very notorious with the slowest players. Once the community realised pace was OP again the fastest players gained concurrence, hence the price increase.

And doesn’t supply affect the price?
Yes, this is also a factor to be taken into account. Prices are made by the community but are also defined by EA, which can put more or fewer cards of a player in circulation. If they put many cards the price drops. After all, whose fault do you think it is that you don’t have enough coins to buy Messi or Ronaldo? You can’t look at the price of very expensive players or IF versions as a reflection of quality. They are strongly inflated because of the poor supply. No matter how good Ronaldo might be, he’s not worth 500 Benzema’s, right?

What about popularity?
All the calling of attention we did until here has quite an importance because hardly one of these advices will lead you to a mistake. However, you should intensify your attention when comparing two different popular players. The fact that one of them is in form or plays at a highlighted club is enough to make his price rise.

Due to the quick sell value difference between rare and non rare cards, the last ones tend to get devaluated even when it comes to interesting players. It goes the same way as the popularity factor we explained earlier. If you can identify all these things, you’ll be able to choose the best players at lower prices.

Along with this guide we gave you all the tools you need to analyse what are the best choices for your squad. However, the intention wasn’t to depreciate the fun way of finding out if a player is good or not: testing him out. Play, have fun and if you’re having good results with someone, don’t change just because somebody else thinks differently. After all, you don’t change a team that’s winning.

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FIFA 22 NumbersUp Tracker

NUMBERSUP TRACKER

FIFA 22 NumbersUp items are automatically upgraded in December 2021 and April 2022.

FIFA 22 NUMBERSUP TRACKER

List of every single NumbersUp item and upgrades. Click or tap on a rating below to see the respective item.
Nov21 Dec21 Apr22
Ter Stegen 91 92 93
Di María 89 90 91
João Félix 88 89 90
M Hummels 88 89 90
L Insigne 87 88 89
Declan Rice 87 88 89
Diogo Jota 86 87 88
Dele Alli 85 86 87
M Asensio 85 86 87
Éder Militão 85 86 87
G Reyna 85 86 87
S Bergwijn 84 86 87
M Dembélé 84 86 87
A Diawara 84 86 87
Fabián 84 86 87
F Neuhaus 84 86 87
Reguilón 84 86 87
A Gordon 72 79 82
D0 U1 U2
FIFA 22 NumbersUp are special dynamic items assigned to a very limited selection of players who wear adidas boots. From the Pace of the adidas X to the Dribbling and Handling of the adidas Predator and the Passing of the adidas Copa, each boot’s unique characteristic will enable players to reach 99 in the corresponding stat during the season in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team.

These cards were released in November and are upgraded in December and April.

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FIFA 22 Prime Gaming

PRIME GAMING

Prime Gaming Members have access to free monthly offers for their FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. All times are shown in the UK time zone.
FIFA 22 Prime Gaming - December 2021
JANUARY 2021
Release Date: 24/01/2022 18:00
List of Rewards
To be announced in a later date
FIFA 22 Prime Gaming - December 2021
DECEMBER 2021
Release Date: 20/12/2021 18:00
List of Rewards
To be announced in a later date
FIFA 22 Prime Gaming - December 2021
NOVEMBER 2021
Release Date: 22/11/2021 18:00
List of Rewards
1x Cristiano Ronaldo (7-match loan)
7x Gold Rare Player Items
2x 81+ Player Picks
12x Rare Consumable Items
FIFA 22 Prime Gaming - October 2021
OCTOBER 2021
Release Date: 25/10/2021 18:00
List of Rewards
1x Kylian Mbappé (5-match loan)
7x Gold Rare Player Items
2x 81+ Player Picks
12x Rare Consumable Items

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Work Rates are responsible to determine how often your player will defend and attack. Follow this guide to learn everything about Work Rates for FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, including how to select the perfect Work Rate and how they are affected by instructions and custom tactics.

 

Work Rates for FIFA 22

When you build a FUT squad, you have to choose your players based on their chemistry, positions, attributes and prices. If you are not a casual player, you also look to their height, preferred foot, weak foot, skill moves and… work rates. Unlike many people thinks, Work Rates affect the way how your players and your team plays.

Lets start by the basic. Work Rates dictate where players position themselves on the pitch. Also known as Player Work Rate, it is the rate of a player’s behavior on the pitch in terms of attacking and defensive works. The Work Rate is defined for Attacking (Attacking Work Rate – Abbreviated as AWR) and Defensive (Defensive Work Rate – Abbreviated as DWR) and rated between low, medium, and high, which defines how a player puts effort into participates in attacks and defenses even when they are out of position.

A high attacking work rate implies that the player is going to be in all of your attack moves. With medium, he will select the attack actions he will join. A player with a low attacking work rate will remain in his position while the team attacks. With the defense, it is exactly the same but in the opposite direction.

You can find the player’s work rate in his Bio page (Squads > Select a Player > Player Bio) or visiting a FUT database. As you can see on the Lewandowski‘s image, it is always shown first the attacking work rate and only then the defensive work rate. Be aware that they cannot be modified in FIFA Ultimate Team.

Work Rates Guide for FIFA 22
 
 

The Perfect Work Rate

Work Rates are very important but, when selecting a player for your team, you should look first at his attributes, position and attributes. Only then, when you already have a shortlist, take work rates into consideration, making it an effective eliminatory factor. The real question here is: what are the perfect work rates? To find the answer to this, we will look at a few examples.

Let’s imagine that you use a classic 433 formation and the three CMs have all high attacking work rates. When losing the ball, your defense will be too exposed since no one will go back to help them. Let’s now assume that you play with a lonely striker and he has a high defensive work rate. It may look great since he will support the rest of the team when you don’t have possession. However, as soon as you recover the ball, most likely he will be out of position and you will lose your only reference in the attack.

High/high work rates may look the best ones, but this is far to be true. First, because you will need players with a very high stamina stat. Otherwise, they will be tired fast and become useless. Besides that, since they always will be running up and down, they will be out of position too often affecting the organization f your team. In another hand, you should also avoid low/low work rates if you want players to cover as much field as possible.

As you can see in these examples, there are not perfect work rates for each position or even each player. If you want to select the best work rates possible for each situation, you have to look at the following factors:

1 Formation;
2 Custom Tactics;
3 Player’s Instructions;
4 Player’s Attributes;
5 Playing Style;
6 The Rest of the Squad.

A deep analyze to all these factors, will guide you to the perfect work rates for each case. To be sure that you understand the importance of these factors, we will look at a few simple examples.

As we have seen above, you shouldn’t use a striker with high defensive work rate if he plays alone on the front. However, you can do it if you use a formation with two strikers. In the same way, it’s almost useless to use players with high defensive work rate if they don’t feature decent defensive attributes. It’s also easy to understand that a counter-attacking style will require wingers and forwards with low defensive work rates because you will need them in their natural positions as fast as possible. Finally, you should also know that is unacceptable to play with two centre backs with low defending work rates, but it’s okay to have just one.

 
 

Work Rates Suggestions

Unfortunately, it is not possible to publish here the best WR for each case, since they depend on too many factors. Just as a guideline, we will leave here the work rates we believe are more appropriate for each position but don’t forget that you have to analyse your case to see if it fits to you or not.

CB | Low/High
These are the players you will need in their natural positions all the time. If you want them to support the midfield, at least do it with fast players.

RB/LB | Medium/High
The main role of fullbacks is to give security to the backline but most of them are high/medium, meaning that they are out of position too often.

CDM/CM | Medium/High
Once again, these players should focus on the defense but without losing the chance to help the most advanced teammates. This work rate should be adjusted according to the number of CDM/CMs in your team.

CAM | High/Medium
Attacking Midfielders have a crucial role in the attacking. However, they should also be the first players to defend.

Wingers | High/Low
As far as possible, you should leave your wingers focused on the attack. It doesn’t mean that they cannot help the backline, but there are other players more suitable to do it.

ST | High/Low
This is the man responsible to score goals. That’s why he should be in the opposite box as long as possible, leaving defensive duties for the other players.

It is important to notice that these are only suggestions. Make your own decisions based on the factors for your cases. You should also know that there is no problem if you can’t find good players with these exact work rates. When we say that high/low is the best work rate for a striker, it means that it is also OK to use high/medium or medium/low. In this case, for example, you should avoid work rates like low/high, medium/high or low/medium.

Keep also in mind that a player’s work rate, affects decisively the number of fitness points he’s going to lose. It defines the predisposition a player has concerning the different field zones he’s going to occupy. That is how he’s going to behave when you’re not controlling him. It’s the work rate that determines if he will run or not while he’s not being controlled by you and for that reason, players with the highest work rates, defenders or attackers, are the ones most likely to get tired faster.

 
 

Work Rates, Instructions and Tactics

It is very usual to see people asking if instructions overrule work rates or not. To answer this and other questions, we will need to go deeper into each one: work rates, instructions, and tactics.

 

WORK RATES

The best way to understand how work rates work is in the form of a heat map. They dictate where players position themselves on the pitch, in the context of their original starting point. Importantly, work rates don’t dictate how ‘hard’ a player will perform in attack or defense but rather what types of space they will occupy. In fact, the post-game heat map for each individual player on your team is a great resource to see how work rates determine where those players are for the majority of the game. Another important point of note is that attacking work rates don’t impact defensive work rates and vice versa – it’s not a synthesis; in other words, when you have possession, players will position based on their attacking work rates, and when you don’t have possession they will position based on their defensive work rates. It’s not a ratio (e.g. M/H on a CDM doesn’t mean he’s 35% attacking and 65% defensive at all times).

Attacking Work Rates:
High – Players will push deep into the attacking third, into the box, into the corners of the wings etc.
Medium – Players will play from the midfield to outside the penalty area.
Low – Players will not play much further than from outside the defensive penalty area up to the defensive midfield

Defensive Work Rates:
High – Players will drop deep into the defensive third, into the box, into the corners of the wings etc.
Medium – Players will play from the midfield to outside the defensive penalty area.
Low – Players will not drop much further than outside the attacking penalty area up to the attacking midfield.

How do work rates couple on an individual player, and between players? A H/M CAM, left untouched in terms of instructions, will push into the box in the attack and drop to the defensive midfield without possession, at times close to the penalty box. An L/H CB will drop into the defensive penalty box without possession and remain just outside the box in the attack. Collectively, they will determine a team’s overall shape in attack and defense. Think of it like dots connected by triangles that shift depending on the possession of the ball. This is critical, because you may select a certain formation, but that formation’s shape will morph in attack and defense depending on the work rates of each individual position. For example, you might want a flat backline at all times but you have a H/M LB, an L/H LCB, a H/H RCB, and an M/H RB. On default instructions, the following will occur in attack and defense:

Attack – The LB will push all the way to the attacking third; the LCB will stay near the defensive penalty box; the RCB will push to the midfield; and, the RB will also push to the midfield. This is not a flat back four.
Defense – The LB will drop outside the defensive penalty box; the LCB will drop into the box; the RCB will drop into the box; and, the RB will drop into the box/defensive wing. Again, this is not a flat back four.

Pay close attention to the work rates of your players, because these are both the foundation for their range of movement based on their starting position and the foundation for your team’s overall shape in attack and defense.

 

INSTRUCTIONS

Player instructions allow for creativity in attack and defence, and have the capacity to somewhat influence the impact of work rates. Rather than go through each individual set of instructions for each individual position, we will summarize how they interact with work rates through a series of examples.

– A H/H Striker, by nature, will push deep into the box in the attack and also drop deep into the defensive midfield, sometimes all the way to the defensive penalty box, when the team doesn’t have possession. Setting this Striker to ‘press the back line’ will cause him to delay dropping deep in defense and stay higher up the pitch, especially when the backline players have the ball. This instruction, however, does not prevent him from ever dropping deep in defense. If you want a Striker who will truly pin the opponent’s backline higher up the pitch throughout the match, your best option is H/L.

– A H/M Center Mid, by nature, will push deep in the attack while not defending much beyond the defensive midfield, occasionally dropping into the area just outside the defensive penalty box. Setting this Center Mid to ‘stay back while attacking’ will cause him to delay forward runs during an attack and stay in the midfield, but it won’t stop him entirely from pushing up into the attack. Setting him to ‘stay on the edge of the box for crosses’ will keep him outside the penalty box more often than not, but again, his high attacking work rate will cause him to make runs for crosses at times. If you want a Center Mid who truly stays in the midfield during the attack and on the edge of the box when the ball is on the wings, M/H or L/H are your better options.

– A M/M Center Back, by nature, will push to the midfield during the attack and drop to the edge of the defensive penalty box when the team doesn’t have the ball. Leaving him on ‘stay back while attacking’ will cause him to not push as far into the midfield as often, but he will still have the tendency to drift forward in the attack. If you want a Center Back that stays deep at all times during the attack, L/H or L/M are the best options.

Now, how can we be creative with our instructions? It’s a matter of comparing a player’s work rates with the functions you want him to perform in-game. For instance:

– A M/H CM. Setting the Center Mid to ‘stay back while attacking’ will largely keep him in the midfield during the attack. However, he will still push forward into the attacking midfield at times, depending on available/open space and his particular attributes/stats and custom tactics. Setting him to ‘stay back’ but also setting him to ‘free roam’ will encourage him to remain in the midfield but also swap positions with nearby players, especially when he does push forward. If this same Center Mid’s complementing CB is set to ‘join the attack’ we could have scenarios where they swap positions during the attack; this could either be a positive or a negative, depending on the CB’s attributes. For example, the CB switching to the CM spot could help to win the ball back higher up the pitch due to his better overall defensive stats, while the CM dropping into the CB role could potentially play a much better unexpected lobbed pass forward from the backline to an open player on the wing than the CB, due to his better overall passing stats.

One key final point to remember is that instructions are positional. This means that if players swap positions at any point, they will follow the instructions set for that role until they swap back to their original spot, which is important to know if you use free form in any of your custom tactics.

 

CUSTOM TACTICS

Custom tactics are the finishing touch. They encourage the team overall to behave in certain ways and play with certain intents, within the context of work rates and instructions. Critically, they can also be directly contradictory to work rates and instructions, which can greatly hinder the resulting performance and fluidity of the team in-game. If you want know more about them click here.

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FIFA 22 Player Roles

PLAYER ROLES

FIFA 22 Player Roles allow you to choose in advance the player you want to be the captain or responsible for taking set-pieces, including penalties, free kicks and corners.
How to Access
You can access the FIFA 22 player roles screen following the path Ultimate Team > Squads > Active Squad > Squad Actions > Custom Tactics > Roles. Before starting a match, you can also make changes, selecting Edit Lineup > Squad Actions > Player Roles. Even after the game starts, you can pause it and make new adjustments.
The game will always save your last configuration which means that you don’t have to set up every time you are going to play. In fact, you can change the kick-taker during the game itself, without having to pause the game. Just hold R2 or RT, depending on your console. The difference from doing it on the player’s roles screen is that this way, your decision will only have effect for that particular set piece. That is, in the next set-piece, the player who will be in charge of it, will be the one that has been defined in the player’s roles screen. Remember that you can configure a role via game plans and use it from the D-Pad.

Players
FIFA 22 player roles are only assigned to the players of the starting eleven. If you make a substitution, the player who comes in will not follow the role of the player who goes out.

Auto-Assignment
There is a feature, on the bottom of the screen, that picks the best player for each role, based on their attributes. The Auto-Assignment feature does a good job for you as for player roles assignment. If you’re not sure about the roles, just leave the job to the CPU by selecting Auto-Assign and resetting to the default assignments.

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FIFA 22 adidas 99 Promo Event

BE THE NEXT GENERATION

FIFA 22 Be The Next Generation is a marketing campaign that includes a free Special Item for all of those who play FIFA 22 before January 14.
The Be the Next Generation event is being released for the first ever in FIFA 22.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 Be the Next Generation offers.
14/11 18:00 (Tue) 0d Free Next Generation Item
Release DateDurContent
FIFA 22 Be the Next Generation FAQ section.
FIFA 22 Next Generation Items are not available on the transfer market or through SBCs and objectives.
Next Generation Player Items
LB Theo Hernández 85
CM Jude Bellingham 81
CM Eduardo Camavinga 81
CAM Phil Foden 85
LW Kylian Mbappé 86
LW Christian Pulisic 83
Click or tap in the player to see his item.

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Fitness was used to be one of the most important aspects of this game. However, last year EA made deep changes to the way it works. We’re here to explain what’s new and to help you out with this FIFA 22 fitness guide.

 

FIFA 22 Fitness – Definition and Basic Concepts

Fitness is an English word that means “being in good shape”. It is directly related to one’s agility, speed, body balance and motor coordination.

In FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, just like its predecessors, the fitness is numerically measured on a scale of 1 to 99. The higher, the better. 99 corresponds to a player’s ideal physical condition. It’s the highest fitness possible. 1 corresponds to a critical state you’re not going to want to be familiar with.

There are three ways to visualize a player’s fitness:
1) In-Game (blue bar above the player name);
2) Pause Screen (green bar above the player name);
3) Team Management Screen (pause – team management – squad – select a player).

During a match, each player has two fitness bars: the instant bar, represented by a blue bar that goes red in extreme situations; and the accumulated, represented by a white bar overlaid by the blue bar. The first decreases during the sprints, ball disputes or other efforts, and then it regenerates. The second will gradually reduce over a game and serves as a ceiling for the instant fitness bar.

A careful analysis to the following image helps to clarify any questions. The game runs from 1 to 5 and, as you can see, the biggest of the bars is getting smaller. In 1, the bar is almost complete. Unlike what happens in 3, in 2 the player is running and therefore is momentarily more tired, ie, less able to continue to make efforts. However, the white bar is bigger which means that with a little rest he will be in better condition than in 3. In 4 he is very close to having to leave the game because he can not make efforts for a long time anymore. He gets tired easily. Finally, in 5 the player reached the limit situation. He has to leave or he will get injured.

FIFA 22 Fitness
 
 

What has Changed in FIFA 22

We have seen many people saying that Fitness doesn’t exist anymore. That’s not true. The only (big) difference is that all players start matches with the maximum chemistry possible. In other words, you no longer need to use fitness squads, apply fitness items or give a rest to your players. They will be always ready to play. As a result of this change, fitness items and fitness coaches were removed from FUT.

Fitness is still in FIFA 22 and it affects the performance of your players. A player with very low fitness will have poor performance. His movements will be slower and obviously, he won’t be able to keep up with the teammates and opponents. Besides, he’s more likely to get injured.

 

How Fitness is Affected

In general, it’s safe to say that the fitness level will be higher or lower according to the following factors:

Playing Time
A player’s spent fitness is directly proportional to how long he’s on the pitch. Generally speaking, if he plays just for one half, he’ll have spent half the fitness he would’ve spent playing 90 minutes.

Stamina
Stamina is different from player to player. It says to you how fast a player’s fitness depletes. It is easy to understand that players with high stamina lose less fitness during the game than the ones with low stamina. For that reason, they finish the game less tired, ie, with a higher fitness level. If you want to see your players running at the end of the matches as they do in the beginning, you should check that they have a good ‘stamina’ IG stat.

Effort Made
Players get tired as they make effort. This effort rate is measured in FUT 22 by the number of meters traversed and the intensity and frequency of the body’s work. Players such as goalkeepers tend to move less around the pitch and usually don’t challenge the ball, therefore spend less on their fitness. This way they’re able to keep on playing for much longer than the average player without having their fitness drastically decreased. Anyway, the effort made by a player depends exclusively on who’s controlling. In that case, yourself.

Injuries
There are two types of injuries: the ones that make players get substituted during the match and those that just lower their fitness. In the second case, it’s up to you. You can keep him on the pitch or not, knowing that he’s not going to be playing at his best. Even if he stays still on the pitch, the moment he gets into a challenge he’ll have his fitness harshly lowered, especially if that’s against a strong defender. You may want to avoid the most aggressive ones. Normally what causes this kind of injury is sliding tackles from behind. When you abuse a player’s fitness making him travel the same exhausting path every time, you’ll be providing him what’s necessary for a muscular injury to happen.

Work Rates
A player’s work rate, which can’t be altered in FIFA Ultimate Team, affects decisively the number of fitness points he’s going to lose. It defines the predisposition a player has concerning the different field zones he’s going to occupy. That is how he’s going to behave when you’re not controlling him. It’s independent of the effort made because that one is up to you. Even if you wanted to spare a single-player some work, you can’t do anything because the work rate is what determines if he will run or not while he’s not being controlled by you… and you can’t control only one during a match, right?! Players with high work rates, defenders or attackers, are the ones more likely to get tired faster.

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FIFA 22 Freeze

FREEZE

The Freeze event features themed items in packs, promo packs, objectives and daily puzzle and themed players SBCs.
The Freeze Event was released for the first ever in FIFA 21.
Release dates for FIFA 22 are estimated.
All release times are indicated in the UK time zone.
This calendar lists all FIFA 22 Freeze offers.
17/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
17/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d Freeze Team 2
10/12 18:00 (Fri) 1d Promo Packs
10/12 18:00 (Fri) 7d Freeze Team 1
Release DateDurContent
Freeze Offers from previous years.
Click or tap on the edition you would like to know the offers.
FIFA 22 Freeze player items are available in packs in the following dates:

Team 1 – December 10 to December 17, 2021
Team 2 – December 17 to December 24, 2021
FIFA 22 Freeze FAQ section.

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In the FIFA 22 Squad Battles game mode, the rank is determined by the total battles points a player gets in a single week. Find out how you can earn them and how they are calculated.

 

Squad Battles for FIFA 22 Ultimate Team

Squad Battles is a single-player game mode within FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. Here are three things you should know before start playing it:

– Players compete against other community-created squads from around the world;
– They can play up to 42 single-player matches per week (including features matches);
– The competition is refreshed every Monday;
– Ranks are determined by the average score among all competitors, which means that players have to climb the dynamic leaderboard to reach better rewards.

To start playing Squad Battles, go into your Ultimate Team, follow ‘Play’ and then select Squad Battles.

FIFA 22 Squad Battles Points
 
 

Squad Battles Points for FIFA 22

Your rank is determined by the total battles points you get in a single week. You earn them playing matches.

Your battles points, per match, is based off how well you played the game, the difficulty of the squad you played and if you won the match. We will show you now, how these points are calculated:

BATTLES POINTS = DIFFICULTY BONUS x ( TEAM RATING SCORE + MATCH RESULT + SKILL BONUS ) + GOAL BONUS
 
FIFA 22 Squad Battles Points
 
 
DIFFICULTY BONUS
The Difficulty Bonus is a coefficient that measures the difficulty of your matches. Here are the coefficients according to the difficulty level and the result:

Win Loss
Beginner 0.5 0.2
Amateur 0.6 0.25
Semi-Pro 0.7 0.4
Pro 1.0 0.5
World Class 1.6 0.6
Legendary 2.1 0.7
Ultimate 2.6 0.7

 
 

TEAM RATING SCORE
The Team rating score depends on the team you are playing against. Basically, it is based on its chemistry and its team rating, according to the following formula:
(Team Rating x 3) + (Chemistry Rating / 2)

Team Rating Team Chemistry
Points x3 x0.5

 
 
MATCH RESULT
There are only two match results possible on Squad Battles: you win, and you get 200 points, or you lose, and you get 50 points.

Win Loss
Points 200 50

 
 
SKILL BONUS
Skill Rewards are the sum of bonuses performance and penalties performance. Player’s good performances are rewarded with squad battle points, while there will be point deductions for negative performances. In other words, are the sum of the bonuses by scored goals, shots on target, successful tackles, corners, clean sheets, pass accuracy, possession and man of the match and the sum of the penalties by against goals, fouls, cards and offsides according to the following table that shows the number of points awarded/deducted for each performance:

Points/Unit Maximum Units Maximum Limit
Scored Goals +40 5 +200
Shots on Target +5 10 +50
Succss Tackle +1 20 +20
Corners +5 10 +50
Clean Sheets +75 1 +75
Pass Accuracy % +1 80 +80
Possession % +1 80 +80
MOTM +15 1 +15
Goals Conceded -20 4 -80
Fouls -5 4 -20
Cards -10 8 -80
Offsides -1 15 -15

 
 

GOAL BONUS
Each goal you score gives you a different amount of battle points based on the difficulty level you choose.

Points/Goal Max Goals Max Points
Beginner 20 5 100
Amateur 30 5 100
Semi-Pro 40 5 200
Pro 60 5 300
World Class 100 5 500
Legendary 140 5 700
Ultimate 160 5 800

 

The amount of Battle Points earned for playing a Featured Squad Battle match is not the same as you would earn for a normal Squad Battle match. Instead, the number of Battle Points you earn is based on whether you win or lose the game, and what difficulty you played the match on. The specific Battle Point values are below:

Win Loss
Beginner 1500 1400
Amateur 1550 1400
Semi-Pro 1600 1400
Pro 1700 1400
World Class 1800 1400
Legendary 1900 1400
Ultimate 2000 1400

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FIFA 22 Pro Players

PRO PLAYERS

FIFA 22 Pro Players Cards are unique items assigned to professional football players that you cannot find in packs or in the transfer market. If you play against someone with one of these cards, that’s because you are playing against a real professional player.

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