I've started with just the bonus cards and the reward coupons and i'm trying to build a portfolio with no extra cash deposit. I managed to win £2.16 in a tournament and started buying players with decent spreads, who are starters in upcoming tournaments. 7 days in I've amassed a whopping £4.30. I'm impatient and want to see this grow quicker. I was intending to buy a £6.99 pack, resell, repeat. Is this a worthwhile approach or could anyone suggest a better strategy?
My FS port is pretty stagnant, which is fine. Picking up regular small wins in the free rolls. Waiting til i feel i have a really strong team to enter the big comps- sniping my chances rather than entering by habit. A lot of energy spent on managing FI port at the moment though. Long term i feel im heading FS unless FI sort it out once and for all. FS is more fun on match days i find.
Week 19 update - About time for my current progress. Off season was a struggle to flip players. Players prices falling, very hard to guage and required a lot of patience. Two big drops had £7 wiped off Mount and MacTominay. Even so managed to keep value moving. Since the season started prices have increased and i now am able to rejoin the beginners tournaments. I've entered 4 in the last couple of weeks and am in tonights, fingers crossed. Out of those four I picked up £5.60. I now have got 22 cards, most of which are decent tournament cards at beginner level. Looking positive.
Anyway my current figures have grown to:-
BUY PRICE - £61.44
SELL PRICE - £56.87
Cheers for update. I've noticed my buy and sell orders have slowed down last 2 weeks. Think there will be more action when we start to know the main lineups for next season. Chelsea for example is difficult to predict. Even Arsenal with lots of ins and outs rumoured.
Week 9 Diary update - The last few weeks have been mixed. A surge in prices before the close of season, then new players coming in and a drop in prices across the board, which I guess is a mixture of no games, new players coming in. So uncertainty of players like McTominay only £2.13 now!!, Mount etc getting game time, players retiring, transfered out. Virtual matches and roulette doesn't seem to be holding prices steady. Anyway my value surged to around £39, but has steadily dropped, mainly because of Mount dropping £5. Flipping has certainly become more difficult recently.
So currently still gaining even with the dip.
BUY PRICE - £34.39
SELL PRICE - £31.95
I wish the graphs showed longer like over the season... Think both fi and fs should have proper historic graphs since players were on platform
Week 6 Diary Update - Bonus cards now finished. Bought my first std pack with a 10% coupon. Wished I hadn't bothered. Got £3.25 worth of players and £2.50 coupon. Current standing is now:-
Buy Price - £30.38
Sell Price - £27.94
Thoughts on graphs on cards?
I think it makes people more conscious about prices and reluctant to sell.
Got a free common GK reward - Kepa £1.13 and a free common player - Vardy £5.74. Happy with that. Balance now increased to £29.74
Week 5 update. After a poor start to the week things have improved. I won 90p in a tournament yesterday, however my bonus cards finish on the 18th, so that's me out of them for a while. I'm looking at getting my free common reward card before I lose them (hopefully get a bit of luck median price is around £2.55). Looking at Michael Keane as my cheapest buy option with low spread. My biggest flip was Ashley Westwood 63p.
My current figures are.
Buy Price - £19.98
Sell Price - £18.58
Week 4 update - up until yesterday things were going well, before prices tanked. Had boughg Luke Shaw for £7, now £4.87. Buy price - £11.76 Sell price - £9.92. Ride the storm time.
Good question. I was thinking of looking for the best 1 and 2 star players ready for the beginners etc... Still quite a few games to affect ppg though. But anyone who is injured and won't play could be banked ready.
Doing well! Il ask Hasselbanker for an update on his £0 challenge. But I think he's way under this so far.