Madden NFL 13

Ok if you are looking for the easiest way to get this .... Buy 2 or 3 legendary packs OR 5 to 6 of the gold packs.

When I first selected Mut, I was awarded with 6 packs of FREE silver and bronze cards.... These are called loyalty rewards, you earn 1 pack for every EA football game you have played on the 360... Even madden arcade and NFL tour.

NOW if you want this on the cheap.... No buying packs.... It can be done and here is how.

First play the solo challenges, play all that you can before any of your current players need a contract re up.... So play 14-15 challenges. Now BANK all the coins!! Don't spend any!!
Make sure to play the Lombardi challenge, you get 1000 coins and a Lombardi card. Next choose the regular season challenges they award cards sometimes and coins that progressively get higher each game.

After the 14th to 15th game take your coin stock pile and select search auctions. From here select players and search. Look for auctions ending soon 1-3 minutes. Look for small bids and players ranked 85+

Try to spend 500-1000 on each player.... Also look for buyouts that are cheap (under 1000)

Also remember that you need free space on your team to "buy it now" cards.... I missed out on getting cards that were worth 5000 for only 1000 buy it now because I didn't have an open slot.... By the time I made room (54/55) the card was gone.

Now you want to select a different position each time.... So DON'T buy 2qb's for example. After you get the players go to line up and hit Y to select the best players.

Now see what your rating is... If you need more just use the players you have now to play a few more games to buy the rest that you need.

If you take the 9000 coins and buy a gold pack you will most likely only get about 2-3 players rated 85 or above.... If your lucky! So using the auctions really gives you more BANG for your coin!

Also if you are reading this before picking your free initial player..... Chose a good qb.... They are the heart of the team and make it easy to win all solo challenge games.

Note: you could also try trading cards with a friend who has enough cards to out you at 85 and then if he needs the achievement you can send your better cards over to him.

The easiest way is to buy 3 legendary packs. I did this and got enough highly rated players to bump my team up to 86 overall. I had to spend 19.99 but it saved me a ton of time of playing games and winning auctions. After buying the packs all you have to do is add and subtract players from your active roster, putting the highly rated players on your team and press Y to set optimal lineup. Press B to save your lineup and the achievement pops for you.

This achievement is no longer obtainable due to the servers being taken offline.

Remember that you only want Players rated 85 or above.

Thought I would provide some feedback since I just recently unlocked this achievement and the previous solutions are based on the game being highly played by others. This game is over 5 years old now and only a handful of people are still posting players on the auction blocks and most of those will require a ridiculous amount of coins to buy.

I read the top solution and there are some good tips to take away from it. Like playing the solo challenges; with that being said either the pre-season of regular season challenges are the way to go. The challenges that have a quarter length of 2 minutes are the best to play as the difficultly for these is on the rookie setting. I attempted one of the 4 minute quarter regular season challenges and the first 2 pass attempts I made were intercepted and almost returned for touchdowns. I'll admit that I'm not very good at this game but the increase in the difficultly is best to avoid unless your fairly skilled in Madden.

I stuck with the Pre-season challenges until I had built up a decent amount of rookie card packs to ensure that I would have a decent amount of players to grind out the regular season challenges. You will have to decide how many games you will want to play in pre-season as I also had some of the loyalty packs from playing previous madden games (note that the loyalty packs didn't give me a player rated above 84). I think I ended up playing around 24 pre-season games which gave me 6 rookie packs to help fill out my roster.

Another way I was able to extend the life of my base cards was to re-do the lineup and depth chart. I made my punter be the kicker and punter at the same time(some players can be used at multiple positions) and used to lowest rated people at each position to maximize my teams rating and skill level. If your hurting for cards at any point you can always buy a few cheap ones from in the card pack buying menu, these cards cost around 1 coin each and can be bought up to a max of 3 times. There is also a Pat Tillman rookie card rated at 85 for 40 coins best to save for your lineup when almost done with the required cards.

Through grinding out Regular Season challenges and finding a few cards on the auction block I was able to get an 87 MUT pretty easy without spending any real money. I also found out that not all players will add to your teams overall skill. I almost ending up spending 2000 coins on a FB before I realized that he wouldn't even change the skill of my team. So before you buy players on the auction block make sure to check that you will get an increase on your team skill before purchase. I also think that kickers and punters have no value towards this.

If anyone currently needs help with this achievement feel free to send me a message on xbox live and i'll try to setup a time to sell you cards cheap on the auction block. I'll have this game awhile longer as I am currently trying to grind out all the legacy achievements. Hope this helps.