Analysis --> 18th full season in Splinterlands

The end of the 9th season of the new rewards system has come. Here's what I got from my 47 Diamond chests:

35 Alchemy Potions;
67 Legendary Potions;
96.65 SPS;
a total of 18 cards;
995 merits;
1 pack;

This my 5th complete season in Gold league and I am pleased with the amount of chests I earned, especially having in mind that I was earning Diamond Season chests in Gold (mostly). Moreover, in the last few days of the season I managed to jump into Diamond 3 again and get a couple of days worth of chests from playing there. Of course I got my a*s handed to me more often than not but there are actually other Gold-level decks there as well so they kind of balance things out. A gold-level deck does not necessarily mean I win the game of course since the power of my deck is still way off what I would like it to be. .

And here's the summary for the whole season - 103 Gold Chests and 63 Diamond Chests (total value: $38.387):

3 packs;
358.22 SPS;
53 cards - 1 epic, 3 GF commons
3970 Merits;
201 Alchemy Potions;
160 Legendary Potions;
178.87 SPS from Battles; (EV: $10.22)

I think that's not bad at all since my EV is higher than the average EV for this amount of Gold/Diamond chests so that's good.

And here's my October Summary - total value of the rewards I've gotten - $45.12

All the data in the sections below has been obtained from HERE

As I have already mentioned my Gold deck is still work in progress. So as you can see relying solely on your entry level Gold CL deck for Modern is not exactly optimal as far as the Win/Loss Ratio goes, and even more so in Diamond, of course. Yeah I waste a bit more ECR but at least I am using my own cards so I feel good about that. My Win/Loss Ratio is exactly the same as what it was last season which is probably a bit disappointing but I hope it will improve together with my deck quality.

I did sign up for as many tourneys as possible, however, when I switched to Gold most of the silver tourneys and all of the bronze ones became unplayable for me due to the restrictive pricing for Gold level players. I had a few good placements this season.

Decent earnings for the amount of tourneys I have entered.

I've received a total of 50 cards. 11 more than the amount I received last season.

The 2 packs I've received definitely make a difference. I hope I will keep getting at least a few packs per season in Gold/Diamond.

I've earned a decent amount of SPS from playing as far as I am concerned even though I feel the SPS per win in Gold got a slight nerf when the latest proposal went live.

The SPS report just does not look sexy when the airdrop is no longer on it but oh well.. it is what it is. I did earn some SPS from staking (mostly thanks to the 1/2 Node I have acquired but keep in my account) but that's nothing compared to the 1000 SPS airdrop I had in my last report before the airdrop ended.

My rental report looks pretty good thanks to the service provided by Splex.gg. I'm renting out all my duplicate cards. Not touching anything from my main deck though so about 6.5K DEC from duplicates is pretty nice, having in mind the rental market was rather dead up for most of the season at least for the cards I'm renting out.

Let's see how the new system treats the poor ol' ex-Bronze players or in this case my poor ex-Bronze now more-so Silver alt account.😁 Here's the breakdown of the screenshot containing 72 Silver Chests (EV: $0.577):

14 Legendary Potions;
23 Alchemy Potions;
4.208 SPS;
a total of 21 cards - 1 epic;
101 Merits;

That's actually a horrendous EV for my 72 Silver chests. But you win some, you lose some.

Let's have a look at my total earnings for the whole season on this account for 235 Silver chests and 12 Bronze for a total of $10.539.

22.27 SPS;
75 cards - 2 epics;
663Merits;
54 Legendary potions;
72 Alchemy potions;
2 packs;
68.14 SPS from Battles (EV: $3.90)

Well at least the EV for the season is above the average for the amount of chests I have earned so that's fine.

October as a whole also does not seem too bad - 444 chests at an estimated value of $19.13.

I played only Modern this season and I am planning to just sticking to Modern going forward. I am pleased that I am maintaining a decent win rate on this alt as I am not really deeply involved when playing my daily battles on it. There is more it though. For the 5th time I decided to advance to Silver even earlier than last time. I was yet again surprised by the amount of level 1 and level 2 Summoners in low-rating Silver I. I had a few days with pretty good amount of SIlver chests cause of that. This also help me boost my season chests to 72. However, for the first time I decided to advance to Gold, yeah, that's right, I might have slashed the amount of chests I will receive next season by probably 66% but given the fact that my EV for 72 Silver chests was less than 60 cents, I don't think there is much to lose.