What a sniping filter is
A sniping filter is a transfer market search in the Web App, narrowed to one card or a small group of cards, with a maximum Buy Now price set below what the card sells for. Anything the search finds is cheap enough to resell at a profit. Sniping is running that search again and again and buying the moment a cheap listing appears.
On EA's Search the Transfer Market page you can narrow a search by a player's name, or by quality, rarity, position, chemistry style, nation, league and club, and by four prices: the minimum and maximum bid, and the minimum and maximum Buy Now. For sniping, the one that matters is the maximum Buy Now.
Setting the max buy: EA's 5% tax
EA keeps 5% of every sale. So the most you can pay for a card is what it sells for, less the tax, less the profit you want:
For example, a card that sells for 20,000 coins pays you 19,000 after tax. For a 1,000-coin profit, your max buy is 18,000.
EA only allows prices on its steps, and the step grows with the price:
| Price | Step |
|---|---|
| Under 1,000 | 50 |
| 1,000 up to 10,000 | 100 |
| 10,000 up to 50,000 | 250 |
| 50,000 up to 100,000 | 500 |
| 100,000 and over | 1,000 |
Each card also has a price range EA allows it to be listed in. A max buy below the bottom of that range can never find anything.
Building one by hand
- In the Web App, open Transfers, then Search the Transfer Market.
- Type the player's name, or set quality, rarity, position and the rest for a group of cards.
- Set Max Buy Now to the max buy you worked out.
- Search. If nothing comes back, go back, change the minimum bid price by one step and search again.
Why change the minimum bid? The Web App keeps recent search results, so the exact same search can show you a page it already has. A small change makes every search a new one.
EA returns 21 results a page, ordered by time left rather than by price. With a max Buy Now set, every result is already under your price, so when a card appears, buy it straight away: everyone else sniping that card is searching for the same listing.
To find a card's price in the first place, search it with a high max Buy Now and lower it a step at a time until results stop appearing. The lowest price that still shows a listing is the cheapest the card is selling for right now.
For the whole process, from choosing a card to listing what you buy, read how to snipe players on FC 27.
What makes a filter good
- Room after tax. Enough between your max buy and the sell price to clear 5% and still pay.
- Supply. A card that's listed often gives a filter more chances. A rare card with a big margin can go hours without one cheap listing.
- Few others on it. Everyone sniping the same card shares the same cheap listings. A filter posted for everyone to copy has the most people on it.
- A steady price. If the price has just jumped or crashed, the sell price your max buy came from is wrong, and so is the max buy.
Why lists of the best filters stop working
A list of the best filters is a snapshot. Prices move all day, and a list everyone can read sends everyone to the same few cards. By the time you read it, the margins it was built on may be gone, and whatever cheap listings are left are shared with everyone else who read it.
So the real question isn't which filters are best, but how to keep finding filters that work today.
How FUTSplash keeps its filters current
FUTSplash's live filters are rebuilt from market prices every 10 minutes and ranked by expected profit after tax. A run works through them, picking each next filter to suit your balance.
- Before a filter runs, the bot searches the transfer market in your Web App and walks the price down to the cheapest real listing.
- If that live price disagrees too much with a recent reference price, the filter is skipped rather than traded on a spike.
- The max buy is set so the sale clears EA's 5% tax and your minimum profit, rounded to EA's price steps.
- The pool is spread across six budget bands, from under 5,000 coins to over 500,000.
- A card's supply decides how many traders can work it at once, and full ones are skipped.
- A filter that keeps finding nothing for you is muted for a while.
Prefer your own? Set up a search on EA's Search the Transfer Market page and save it. The bot prices it exactly like a live filter, or you set its buy and sell prices yourself. Every new run starts as a dry run, which searches and price-checks for real but never buys.
See everything the sniping bot does
A word on EA's rules
Searching and buying by hand is how the transfer market is meant to be used. Automating it is different: EA does not permit third-party automation of the Web App, and any automated trading carries a risk of restrictions on your account. Read how FUTSplash keeps your usage moderate.