Start Your Squad

From the Main menu, select the Ultimate Team panel to get started building your team. Complete your objectives as soon as possible to continue your progress and unlock new challenges. Make sure to equip offensive and defensive playbooks, along with uniforms. The last thing to keep an eye out for is a coach who will help give your team an identity with his style.

Adjust Lineup

Getting your best players into position to make plays is the key to Madden Ultimate Team. This is where the Lineup screen comes in handy. Scroll over to the Team tab and choose Adjust Lineup. This allows you to make changes to the starting lineup and depth chart.

You can let the game handle it automatically, or you can do it on your own. By clicking on a player item, you can compare items in your starting lineup with those in backup roles. Then you can determine which player you want in the lineup based on his abilities and style. There are five different tabs to look at for each item, and all will help you make the best decision. You can view your entire offense, defense, or special teams on the screen at once. You can also head into your Item Binder for a different view and click on player items. From here, you can choose to promote a player to starter. Two other important things to look at on the Team screen are the Coaching & Equipment panel and the Team Management panel. The first is where you set your coach and playbooks, and the latter is where you set your team style and name.

Item Binder

Item Binder Filters

• Type
• Quality
• Team
• Style
• Program

Keeping track of all the items you collect over the season can seem overwhelming at first, but the Item Binder makes it very easy. By using different filters, you can narrow down and find the item that you want. If you are only looking for items from a certain program, the game will simply show you those, and you can quickly make a decision on how to proceed.

Item Viewer

Once you locate the item you want, select it to bring up an extended view. From here, you can view the item in detail and perform actions. Use this screen to:

• Compare Against Similar Items by Position
• Promote to Starter
• Extend Contracts
• Add to Sets
• Auction
• Quick-Sell
• You can also navigate to other tabs on the Item Viewer screen. You can see information like player ratings, contracts remaining, style, date acquired, and full attributes!

Sets

One of the biggest aspects of MUT is collecting items. Eligible items are placed into “sets” to earn rewards. Set rewards can be anything from coins to items that are earned when you add and complete everything in a set.

As you inspect the items required to complete a set, the ones you can use will be highlighted. Fill in all the blanks to complete the collection and claim your reward. Sets are updated throughout the year, so any items that didn’t seem to have a purpose when you got them may become valuable later in the season.

• If you don’t have an item needed to complete a set, a Find Item icon will appear in the binder, which takes you right to the item in the Auction House to bid.
• Certain sets are repeatable and keep delivering rewards during the season.

Marketplace

If you are looking to pick up packs without spending in-game coins, you can select the Store and buy items or packs. Opening new packs is a fun way to go hunting for new items that have been eluding you due to a lack of coins. You might even find a rare player you don’t need and put him up on the auction block. You can buy points that will allow you to purchase packs—the bigger the bundle, the more points you save.

Auctions

The Auction House allows players to search active auctions to find items to buy or to bid on. If you have already placed an offer or posted an item, you can view those in My Bids or My Posted Auctions. By knowing exactly which items you want to buy and how much you are willing to pay, you can find good deals. The more patient you are and the more coins you have available, the better you will do.

• You can now head straight to the Auction House from your Item Binder when looking at a player item. This saves huge amounts of time and allows you to check prices before posting a player.
• You can now sell up to 100 items at a time in Quick Sell, which is an improvement from 20 last year.
• Consider buying items that don’t fit your style but are below current value, then turn around and flip them for a profit!
• If you replace a player in your starting lineup, make a decision to auction him or use him as a backup.