Squad Changes / Player Exchange

What does that Squad Change / Player Exchange mean?

Squad Change / Player Exchange is the concept of people getting new cards and selling previous cards to free up some coins. 

This will happen a lot throughout the year! From what I have noticed so far, the intensity is like a wave. In the early stages, this happens a lot and people change squads based on the new stuff they get, around Futmas to early February it happens less partly due to less popular promos. After getting like Future Stars, it’s a bit more common again. TOTS also show a stronger exchange but it slowly flats out as people don’t need to exchange anymore and just build multiple squads near the end of TOTS going into Futties. 

The ideal content to make people change the squad is meta, fun, unique, and easy OR hard to link! This short sentence is almost complicated to make a whole guide about this alone, but we just leave it to these small indicators to identify squad changes. 

Why is that important for us?

You can find correlations between Player Exchanges and other trading methods! It’s a lot of theory and a bit predicting at the right stages of the game, but sometimes it's very easy to spot!

Let’s say there’s a very cheap card released that was previously covered by a very expensive card. People swap the cards -> sell the previous expensive cards -> open up some coins to make changes. And with the right market feeling + knowledge, you can roughly estimate how many coins people get.

Based on the knowledge about how many coins people additionally have, you can get a better idea of what cards people are looking for in other trading concepts like Complementary Trading. 

Over the last 3 years, this concept got more and more relevant in my opinion but also got taught well less. I ranked this guide for 2 stars due to knowing when this will be helpful and for some people, this will not even be helpful once a year because it takes a greater understanding of the overall market before taking this deeper step. 

Summary

- People Sell cards and have more coins for new squad ideas

- You can roughly estimate how many coins people got and use that for other trading moves

- You can get a better understanding of other trading concepts