Increasing Contract Lengths

 

As Ultimate Team evolves over the course of the game, players start to assemble the players and formations that they require. The result of this is that when a card runs out of contracts, more players will now be looking at issuing the card with a new contract rather than replacing the card.

You may have noticed the effect of this if you have recently tried to buy contracts at auction. You can expect to pay around 600 coins for a rare gold contract card which is double the amount that they could be picked up for earlier in the game.

You may not be able to get the contract cards any cheaper, but you can get more games out of your contracts if you have sufficient managers in your club with the appropriate attributes.

Each manager has two attributes, contract and team talks followed by a percentage (modifier). Many of the lesser managers will have a percentage of 0 for contracts and are of no use for extending contracts. But the majority of rare managers will have this attribute (I say majority, as I have seen one manager card, R.La Volpe of Argentina that is rare but does not have a contract modifier)

The rare gold managers have a 3% modifier, silver 2% and bronze 1%

A 3% increase on a 28 game contract is going to have no effect as it, however the modifier effect is based on managers in your club, not just the one selected to take charge of the team. Therefore, hypothetically you could collect enough managers to have the total modifier reach 100 to effectively double the length of any contracts that you assign.

Is this cost effective though? Maybe not to chase all the managers to get a 100% modifier, but several rare gold managers can be picked up for around 400 coins so it is conceivable that you could increase the length of any contracts you assign by a third for as little as 4000 coins. see picture below for the effect of having these managers has on applying a contract.

This strategy is worthwhile for those who play a lot of games as you will have saved the additional outlay by the time you assign your 20^th rare contract card*

Weather you decide to follow this strategy or not is up to you, but it may be worthwhile holding on to any manager cards that you get as those modifiers soon add up.

 

*Based on 600 coins a card and 400 coins per gold