Splinterlands Season Review
Another Splinterlands season is over and I am reviewing my performance in this season to see how the game is evolving and if I need to do any adjustments to my strategy.
Lets take a look at the big picture of SPS Earnings. Here is where I my total SPS earnings stand:
I am looking at the last twelve seasons since SPS validators have launched. As you can see the SPS earnings in general are in decline. It is getting harder and harder to earn SPS and that is despite my constantly increasing staked SPS.
Now lets take a look at my Wild and Brawl SPS earnings over the last ten season. There might be a slight decline, particularly in brawl SPS earnings but not major decline overall, though last season my Wild league SPS earnings are definitely sloping down. That big dip in season 163 should not be counted as that was my experimental season where I played only in Modern league.
Let's take a look at my performance in Wild League. It definitely seems that it is getting harder to battle in Wild League, my end rating and end league seems to be going lower:
In his recent video Aftersound also mentioned that Wild is getting harder, I definitely agree with that assessment.
Season Summary
As you can see I have played in Modern and Wild leagues during this last season, but earnings definitely seemed much better in Wild, so I have only played 27 battles in Modern and my win rate was terrible at 25.93%
Wild is also showing that it is harder than usual as my win rate in Wild dropped below fifty percent. I was unable to attain Champion Two during this past season.
Last Season results
| Statistic |  Wild |  Modern |
|---|---|---|
| Battles | 432 | 27 |
| Rank | 326 | NA |
| Rating | 3900 - CHAMPION_III | 2060 - GOLD_III |
| Rating High | 3940 | 2300 |
| Win PCT (Wins/battles * 100) | 49.31 (213/432) | 25.93 (7/27) |
| Longest Streak | 6 | 2 |
The stats show that last season was unusually difficult. Either weaker players are starting to drop out of Wild or players are improving their decks and it is becoming more and more competitive.
Earnings
| Earnings | # |
|---|---|
| SPS validator block validation |  4609.176 |
| SPS staking reward | 1160.202 |
| SPS ranked battle (wild) | 1135.685 |
| SPS validator reward | 305.735 |
| SPS brawl | 275.445 |
| SPS ranked battle (modern) | 29.757 |
| MERITS brawl prizes |  10760.0 |
| GLINT ranked |  247862.0 |
| GLINT season | 247862.0 |
Take a look at the table above and now compare to the previous season:
What we see here is a drop across all SPS earning categories, what is interesting is that my staking rewards are now greater than my wild ranking rewards and that is the first time this has happened. Though if you add Wild and Modern ranking rewards they would come out a few SPS ahead of my staking rewards.
Here is the season before these two last seasons:
You can clearly see that SPS earnings keep dropping across all categories.
Cards Sold
Note: Only cards that are listed and sold in this season are displayed here.
None. No surprises here as I never sell any cards :)
Reward draws purchased
As you can see I have stopped buying Legendary Reward draws even though my legendary reward cards are not maxed out yet. I am trying to save up Glint tokens for the new reward card set that is set to come out very soon.
Special items earned
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
As usual I have not earned anything special :)
Cards earned
 regular bcx: 5 gold bcx: 4 |  bcx: 30 |  bcx: 2 |  regular bcx: 34 gold bcx: 1 |  regular bcx: 36 gold bcx: 1 |
 bcx: 4 |  regular bcx: 11 gold bcx: 1 |  regular bcx: 32 gold bcx: 1 |  bcx: 26 |  regular bcx: 6 gold bcx: 1 |
 bcx: 9 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 4 |  bcx: 1 |  regular bcx: 9 gold bcx: 2 |
 regular bcx: 26 gold bcx: 2 |  bcx: 9 |  bcx: 2 |  regular bcx: 23 gold bcx: 3 |  bcx: 2 |
 bcx: 17 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 5 |  bcx: 3 |  bcx: 8 |
 bcx: 5 |  bcx: 16 |  bcx: 1 |
I did earn some legendary reward cards which I am very happy about.
League rewards
As you can see I made just once advancement so the amount of reward chests earned for league advancement is not very substantial...
League rewards special items earned
| | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Once again nothing special in these chests, though I wouldn't expect much as I got very few chests this time.
League rewards cards earned
 bcx: 2 |  bcx: 2 |  bcx: 5 |  bcx: 4 |  bcx: 2 |
bcx: 3 |  bcx: 1 | bcx: 2 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 2 |
 bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |
 bcx: 1 |  regular bcx: 2 gold bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |
 bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |
I did managed to earn a legendary in the league reward chests, so that is very nice :)
Closing notes
Tough season for me, but I still made progress with my reward cards and earned good amount of SPS, hoping to earn more SPS in this current season. Will keep on stacking.
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It could be that bots are getting better and better in wild, also number of cards increasing makes matches there way more complicated
That makes sense, I didn't consider that possibility.
I finally turned in a bunch of Merits the other day. Bought a handful of GF Epic Legendary cards and then I bought about 53 Gladius packs and cracked them open.
I like to open my Merits as soon as I get them, though I buy bloodstones for increased legendary chance first...
I don't think our clan store is high enough level for us to get those gems.
Hey Seattle! Your metrics are very interesting. I'm going through a similar situation. Last season, I stopped playing Wild because I honestly wasn't generating enough to recoup my season pass spending. So, I've decided to play Modern, and I'm definitely a disaster. I need to adapt to this game mode and complement the cards I have from Conclave with Foundations, which help a lot. I wish you good luck in the upcoming season.
!BBH
Thank you, I know Foundations are good cards to have, but I have neglected it for a little while...
Thanks for sharing! - @rehan12
