Essentials are digital collectible NFTs that are not limited by the number of mints, but rather in seasonality or time. Learn more about essentials and how to mint them.
Each league season or year will constitute these different times. You will be able to buy these NFTs within Upland by visiting the team’s stadium. At the stadium you will be able to mint bundles of shirts or boots that consist of 3 or 4 different players. The groups of players are organized according to tiers - superstar, starter, and player.
Since there is no supply limit to the number that can be obtained, you can expect these NFTs to have a relatively low resale value. Once the season is over and these NFTs are discontinued, it is possible that they might go up in value in the future. For example, a lesser known rookie may not have a lot of minted essentials during the year. Several years later, if he becomes a superstar, the fact that there were not a lot of his essentials minted in his rookie year could create additional scarcity as the demand for his rookie year essential will likely rise, therefore increasing its value.
Having said that, Essential variants also exist which have a small percentage chance of minting one when minting an essential. These clearly have less supply, and for more popular players, can cause an increase in price for these as collectibles. Watch this video to learn how Essential away variants differ from Memento or Replica Away caps and jerseys. Essential variants will also be important when Legits collections are released. In the meantime you can learn more about how NFLPA collections work, as these will likely function in a similar manner. One of NFLPA collections is to own 3 variants of different players on the same team. I speculate there could be a similar collection for these types of Legits, which will give you boosted fan points.
Why do you need Essentials?
- Sell, trade or hold them as a collectible.
- They increase your Team and Player Fan Score improving the likelihood of getting an autograph.
- Create future team related collections for an additional Fan Point boost
- Blend them to get a Replica (future feature)
- Speculation – add them to your team when participating in fantasy football like contests
Mementos are rare unique (1 of 1) Legits that commemorate game performances of a specific player. Before each game, players will have the opportunity to mint a Memento of a specific player. Players will have to visit the relevant stadium in order to enter the lineup to have a chance to purchase the Memento. If a player has an above average or career game in one or more of his stats, it will “catch fire”. Of the main player statistic on the Memento, the fire score can be anywhere from zero to five, and is a visual way to show how good that player’s performance was in that specific game. The specific statistic will catch fire based on the player’s previous season’s overall league percentile within that stat. A player who has all stats catching fire is extremely rare, meaning that the player had a career game. Since the Legit is a 1 of 1, meaning only one of these is minted, this could become a very desirable commodity for football fans, or fans of that specific player.
In addition to there being shirt and boots mementos, for each game there is also one game ball memento. This Legit has the top player from the game and his statistics minted to the memento.
Mementos are 1 of 1s, but other Uplanders will have the ability to create replicas of your Memento in the future. Learn more about mementos and how to mint them.
Why do you need Mementos?
- Sell, trade or hold them as a collectible.
- They increase your Team and Player Fan Score improving the likelihood of getting an autograph.
- Create future team related collections for an additional Fan Point boost
- Speculation – add them to your team when participating in fantasy football like contests
Legit Replicas are copies of Mementos. To best describe this, think of the Mona Lisa. There is only one original, but many reprints or copies.
The following is how Replicas will work for NFLPA Legits. There is no explicit information regarding how soccer replicas will function, but we can expect it to be similar:
By merging 5 Essentials, players will have a chance to obtain replicas of Mementos. They aren’t as valuable or rare as the original Momento; They contribute half the number of Fan Points as compared to the original Memento.
Merging 5 Essentials gives you a small chance to get a replica game ball. If the Replica is not a game ball, one of the five Essentials used for the merge will be randomly chosen to influence the resulting Replica. For example, if the randomly drawn Essential is a Superstar jersey, the resulting Replica is more likely to be a Superstar player, more likely to be a jersey, and/or more likely to be from the same team as the Superstar player. Similarly if the randomly drawn Essential is an Impact Player cap, the resulting Replica is more likely to be an Impact Player, more likely to be a cap, and more likely to be from the same team as the Impact Player.
Why do you need Replicas?
- Sell, trade or hold them as a collectible.
- They increase your Team and Player Fan Score improving the likelihood of getting an autograph.
- Create team related collections for an UPX bonus and additional Fan Point boost
- Speculation – add them to your team when participating in fantasy football like contests
Read more about Replicas, and future strategies on how to obtain them, and build your team collections.
(future feature) Every Legit has the ability to be digitally and officially autographed by the player. The autograph itself is the same for each autograph, however the size and location on the Legit itself can differ. This provides an interesting element to the value of different Legit Autographs. Based on that fact, it is possible that one that has an autograph in a “good” vs “bad” location of the Legit may also influence its market value. Getting a Legit autographed permanently increases its Fan Points by a multiplying factor. Legits can be autographed after games at the stadium or at players in game homes.
In the real world, you could typically wait outside the stadium after a game in the hopes of seeing your favorite player. These players often sign autographs for fans as they leave the stadium after the game. The same thing will happen in Upland. Hanging around the stadium towards the end of the game, you are able to line up to receive an autograph. Having a higher Fan Points will give you a chance to get priority in the lineup. Make sure you have an unsigned Essential/Replica/Memento of that player in order for him to sign it.
