Method 2: Earn Badges, Complete Sets, and Complete Solo Challenges
The most time consuming, but perhaps most reliable, way of getting good players in Madden 17’s Ultimate Team (MUT) mode is completing the game’s solo challenges and item sets. Primarily, you’ll get a lot of what you need by completing the solo challenges which begin with the Opening Games. Eventually, you’ll unlock a ton of other challenges, all of which offer useful items such as coins, packs (which could contain good players), and badges.
Badges are used to complete sets, which in turn usually reward you with good players. There are A LOT of sets to complete, and it can seem a bit overwhelming at first. Just pick one with a reward that you’re interested in, and see what the requirements are for each badge/item for that set. It is possible that you’ll need to unlock certain challenges through pre-requisite solo challenges first. Put very simply, if earning badges/set items is your goal, then play through the solo challenges and turn in any eligible set players you don’t want in, instead of selling them. There are a ton of sets you can complete by just trading in cards you don’t need, such as sets that require you to burn players of a certain quality for a specific team to earn one of that team’s best players.
Finally, if you’ve followed our advice and effectively learned how to work the auction house, you could deal in badges, and try to earn enough badges to trade for a pack. Elite Badges are the ultimate goal, as they are used for a lot of premium packs guaranteed to have someone good in them.
Like we said, there are ton of badges and sets to earn and complete. If you’re looking for help for a specific one, leave us a note in the comments and we can try and help or maybe even create a guide just for it.
