A ranking of Madden Solo Challenges: earn for coins, players and items

Madden NFL 17 and FIFA 17 has all produced by EA, so we can see there are a lot of similarities between them. The most popular game mode in all EA games must be Ultimate Team, just like FIFA 17 squad building challenges, in NFL 17, you can complete solo challenges to earn coins, players and items. Solo Challenges are the lifeblood of MUT, then do you know how to start it? Follow us to start your NFL 17 Solo Challenges. We have introduced several challenges in previous article. Here is the other solo challenges where you’ll find the most joy for earning rewards.

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Ultimate Seasons

Ultimate Seasons is an ever changing category of Solo Challenges. It is updated weekly with 16 new challenges that are appropriate to the corresponding week of NFL action. Each challenge will be a scenario, like in The Gauntlet. For example, you’ll have to complete a 2-minute drill against the Raiders to win. In each weekly set of challenges you will have the chance to earn between 10,000 and 27,750 coins, depending on the difficulty of the challenge and the rewards you’ll get. It’ll also give you a collectible to go towards the Madden Ultimate Team Master set.

Weekly Challenges

The Weekly Challenges give you the best chance to earn all of the most up to date items. For example, during Week's 2 and 3, these gave you the opportunity to earn each teams’ Color Rush uniform. In addition to unique challenges like those, you can complete a challenge a week for more contracts, one a week to earn a Player of the Week Collectable that can go towards the Player of the Year and, of course, coins (at least 2000).

Team Challenges

This is definitely the longest set of Solo Challenges, but they’re enjoyable. This set allows you to play each teams’ full 16-game schedule, earning you players, contracts and coins along the way. With a total of 512 games to play (on Rookie, Pro and All-Pro difficulties) this will take a lot of time, dedication and contracts. This is by no means the most efficient set, but it’s the one that’ll likely keep you going on Ultimate Team. If you complete all of these, you’ll have earned a total of 435,200 coins, which can go a long way to buy more packs, players and contracts.

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet was the first group of Solo Challenges to entice me this year. In The Gauntlet there are three sequences: Rushing, Passing and Defense. The challenges range from single plays to full games and can all be beaten in not too much time.

The new December Gauntlet is the same as the November Gauntlet in terms of rewards and types of challenges. The only difference is that, once completed, you earn a 91 Overall LOLB Rob Ninkovich.

The Novermber Gauntlet is more like the October Gauntlet in format. Each sequence will reward you with 34,800 Coins, 4 Contract Reward Packs, 2 Pro Packs, 2 All-Pro Packs, a Game Changer Pack and an Elite Player Pack. In addition, each sequence will give you a Gold Gauntlet Collectible which will go towards the 'November Gauntlet Set' which will give you a 90 Overall Philip Rivers. 

It seems that this group of challenges will be updated monthly. In the October update, they have increased each sequence to 20 games from 16, giving you 60 total games to play. What's more, they have increased the payout. Each sequence is now worth 34,800 coins and an additional 10 Packs/Items, the final game giving you an 85 Overall Elite player. You'll now earn 2 Pro Packs, 2 All-Pro Packs and a Legends Pack along the way. Upon completing all the challenges, you'll be able to add the collectibles you'll earn to the 'October Gauntlet Set' to give you a an 89 Overall Julius Pepper's item.

Another bonus about these challenges is that, for the amount of time they take, they are good value. In that upon beating all 48 challenges you’ll have earned 63,750 coins, 4 Pro Packs, 4 fifty contract packs and 8 category specific packs, which will give you the Collectibles to earn an 88 overall Joe Haden. In addition, you’ll receive a ‘Master’ Collectible, which when completed will give you a 95 overall Rob Gronkowski item and a 500,000 coin quicksell item.

VIP 500 Club

This is a special group of Solo Challenges. They only become avaialable once you have completed 500 Solo Challenge games on Madden Ultimate Team.

It consists of 40 games - 4 sets of 10 games - and is all played on All-madden difficulty, the highest in the game. Each game is a different scenario, for example: Trailing the Dolphins 17-23, you have the ball with 2:30 remaining on your 20 yard line. Win the game to advance. 

At first, this set of Solo Callenges may not seem as though they are worth it as they're on the hardest difficulty and each set of 10 games only gives you 16,500 coins, and you only get items - 3 of them - in the final set of 10 games. So it is an awful lot of grinding to get to those three items. Those items are an "Express Home Uniform Item", "Express Away Uniform Item" and a 90 Overall Devin McCourty Item. 

Personally, All-Madden is very diffilt to play on, as you would imagine, all of these games are fairly tough and the end reward is not that great. Especially considering The Journey is on a lower difficulty, has better rewards and a 90 Overall Earl Thomas at the end (Thomas and McCourty are the same position). As a result, I don't think this set of Solo Challenges is really worth it. But if you are looking for a real challenge from Solo Challenges then this is the set for you. The Journey There is a new set in MUT! The Journey is back and better than ever. This set of Solo Challenges takes you through each division and gives you 16 games to play in each division, so a total of 160 more Solo Challenges are at your disposal. Each game is a different scenario, for example: "Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliot have Cowboys fans thinking about a date in Houston later this year. Down by 1 and in field range, make the rookies wait at least another year before hosting the Lombardi Trophy." Each set of 16 Challenges will give you gradgually excalating rewards. The first will give you 10,000 Coins and 4 Packs/Items (Contract Packs and Reward Packs) and the lasy one will give you 25,000 Coins and 9 Packs/Items (Contract Packs and mixture of purchesable Packs) and finally a 90 Overall Earl Thomas.