When position requirements fight each other
Every card plays exactly one position, so on most eleven-card PTCs the positions use up every slot. City, rarity and named-player requirements never take a slot of their own: they ride on cards that are already filling one.
Every card in Football Head Coach 27 plays one position, so every position requirement claims whole slots. Add the counts up. If they come to more than the challenge has cards, it cannot be completed as written, and no amount of buying fixes it.
Most PTCs name every slot
On most eleven-card challenges the positions already account for all eleven. Hero Career #2 asks for three DTs, two DEs, three LBs, two CBs and a safety: eleven cards, eleven named slots, nothing spare. Every card you put down has to be one of those, and together they have to clear an average of 82.
That average costs 897 total OVR, not 902. The game checks the average it displays, and it displays 81.5 as 82, so the real bar sits half a point under the number on the panel. The PTC Solver counts it the same way.
Everything else rides on top
City, rarity, special set and named-player requirements never take a slot of their own. They describe a card that is already filling a position, which is why one card can answer two requirements at once.
Franchise PTC #6 shows how much that tightens a challenge. It wants a whole defense, one DT, two DEs, one LB, four CBs and three safeties, and eight of the eleven out of Motor City. The question is never whether you own eight Motor City cards. It is whether you own eight Motor City cards at those positions, because each of them still has to fill a defensive slot.
Daily PTC #001 runs the other way. Six cards, no positions at all, and it wants one Bronze, two Silvers and one Motor City card. A Motor City Silver answers two of those with a single card, which leaves more of the six free to carry the average of 73.
A named player takes a named slot
A challenge that asks for one specific card still counts it against the positions. Carnell Tate’s Player of the Month card is a wide receiver, and the October Player of the Month challenges place him three different ways:
- #2 names ten defensive slots, so Tate takes the eleventh, the only one left open
- #3 names two WR slots among its eleven, so Tate fills one and the other receiver is yours to choose
- #5 names four WR slots, so Tate is one of the four
Read the challenge that way before you buy. In #3 you need one more receiver, not two.
When the solver says a requirement has nowhere to go
The PTC Solver places positions first, then lays every other requirement onto the slots that can take it. If one is left with nowhere to go, it tells you. That is almost always a miscounted requirement rather than an impossible challenge, so check the counts against the challenge panel in game before you change anything else.
This is an original blog article written by FHCWiz community writers, on various topics surrounding the FHC 27 (Football Head Coach 27) mobile game by Gamebasics BV. FHCWiz has no association with Gamebasics BV, and these articles are opinion and analysis, not official information.