[jyoung]

My advice to any new MyTeam players who want to get into this year's tournament would be to grind the offline modes for the first month to build up your bank of MT points and unlock as many free reward players as you can before qualifying starts.

Use all of those offline matches as a way to discover your favorite plays/freelances/series to run, and as a way to see which NBA players have your favorite animations/shooting forms.

Then about a week before the qualifying rounds start, I would go ahead and cash in all of your MT for the best available players on the auction house, stop playing offline, and start playing the online unlimited mode as much as you can leading up to the first qualifier event to see what the meta is like at that point in time, because in MyTeam, the meta tends to change on a weekly basis as new cards are released or become unlockable.