SorareData Newsletter, Issue 2
This week’s agenda
What’s 🆕
🔦 Feature Spotlight
🎯 Threshold Hunting
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
What’s 🆕
Enhanced price graphs - we recently added two new features to our player page price graphs: a dotted line showing the current floor price, and the daily valuation history shown in a shaded area. With the objective of increased transparency, the new shaded area and dotted line allow users to visualize how our price average and floor compare to all recent transactions. As a reminder, SorareData card valuations only include auctions and public offers, but the detailed price graphs still show all transactions.
Expanded lineup builder options - Underdog Limited, Specialist Limited, Underdog Rare, Specialist Super Rare, Special Threekly, The Academy, and Casual League are all now available in our lineup builder, making it easier than ever to manage and organize your cards for each upcoming gameweek. Additionally, the lineup builder is now available through GW 300.
🔦 Feature Spotlight
Last week, we introduced our new expanded watchlists, bringing significantly more functionality and personalization to one of our more popular features. Sorare managers can now create multiple watchlists instead of relying on a single list that became long and unmanageable for many users. Additionally, watchlists can be made public to share with the wider SorareData community, and you can follow these watchlists to make it easy to find them on your watchlist dashboard. Some of our favorite public watchlists include the Genesis French Breakouts 22-23 by Sorare manager Genesis and LaLiga Specialist L15 < 40 🇪🇸 from cancirer, who has three of the top five most-followed watchlists!
The new watchlists include all of the great features from our previous one, including the ability to see fantasy-points averages, position and overall rankings, valuations and floor prices for all scarcities, and the ability to set price alerts when cards of a certain player are posted to the secondary market.
The enhancements begin with our price evolution charts, which show average or cumulative prices of the players in the watchlist based on multiple timeframes while covering each scarcity and available currency.
There is also a stats view option, that not only shows a ranking based on certain stats, but also a fully sortable table that includes additional filters to help you identify the top players in the group.
And finally, you can see open auctions and secondary-market offerings for each player in the watch list with all the available information you’re used to seeing on our Live Auctions and Live Offers tools, including recent sales averages, asking price, floor price, card bonus, L5 and L15 averages, and the players’ games in the next gameweek.
SorareData users have already created over 5,000 watchlists, and we are still adding more great functionalities, so stay tuned for more enhancements!
🎯 Threshold Hunting
We cannot underestimate how big of an impact common cards have had on Rare competitions (particularly All Star), and these contests will look very different when those cards are no longer able to be used. We previously shared a summary about the use of common cards in Rare competitions, and it’s worth revisiting them to begin our discussion.
The darker blues in the graphs represent the percentage of total entries that include a common card and, unsurprisingly, we see them heavily used in All Star Rare while also making up a decent minority of the lineups in the regional competitions. The success of these lineups in terms of winning card rewards is low, so while we see lots of people discussing the number of rewards per total entries, it’s not entirely fair to count lineups with commons because they simply aren’t viable enough on a regular basis.
But today we are focusing on ETH threshold rewards in All Star Rare to see how “easy” it has been for lineups to win these monetary payouts. First, here’s a look at how many lineups in All Star Rare have included a common card versus those with five rares (shown on a percentage basis):
The graph tells us that between 60% and 80% of all lineups in All Star Rare include a common card, a fairly remarkable percentage given we’ve seen over 19,000 entries multiple times. However, that doesn’t mean all of those lineups were competitive when it came to scoring 205+ or 250+ to win ETH; in fact, most did not. The next graph shows the percentage breakdown of lineups that scored fewer than 205 fantasy points (the dark red), between 205 and 250 (medium red), and over 250 (pink); as we see, most lineups failed to earn an ETH threshold reward in most midweeks, while hovering around 55% on weekends over the time period shown.
It’s important to remember that not every lineup entered into a competition is realistically viable; sometimes they include players who don’t even have matches that gameweek but are used in order to try and win a reward with only four scoring players.
Because of that, let’s look at how many lineups in All Star Rare are actually viable, defined as a lineup with five players with games. Admittedly, this is not perfect, as a known DNP (like a backup goalkeeper) would count in a viable lineup, but it’s still a worthwhile angle for our review.
The number of viable lineups drops dramatically during midweeks, which is expected given how few teams on the platform have matches during those gameweeks (that means fewer active cards for managers to play in lineups).
Going a step further, let’s review the success of these viable lineups when it comes to winning ETH threshold rewards. It would make sense that focusing on viable lineups would show an increase in the percentage of entries that won ETH rewards because we know that five players with games should score more points than lineups with four, three, two or one player with a game. And, we see just that, as somewhere between 45% and 60% of viable lineups in All Star Rare qualify for some kind of ETH reward in most gameweeks.
But let’s remember, we’re not here to just look at the success of viable lineups, we’re here to see how successful viable lineups with five rare cards have been, as common cards will be no longer be eligible in the coming months. So now, let’s create the same chart at the one just above, but instead of using all viable lineups, we will only include viable lineups that do not include a common card:
What we see here is not only a drastic increase in the percentage of lineups that qualify for an ETH threshold payment, we see that more scored over 250 fantasy points versus between 205 and 250, and therefore earned the higher reward. Again, this is unsurprising for those who truly consider what it means to have a viable lineup for All Star Rare, but many Sorare managers simply overlook the importance of having five players with matches and no common cards when it comes to winning these types of prizes.
In addition to looking at viable lineups, we can analyze the success of lineups that had no DNPs (players who had games but Did Not Play) and five starters. We’d expect these lineups would surely have a higher success rate than just viable lineups because they are included in that group but have players with guaranteed fantasy points because we know they played.
These charts are actually a bit staggering.
Over the past 100 gameweeks, we’ve seen at least 67.5% of All Star Rare lineups that had five starters and no common card qualify for the higher ETH threshold reward, and the lowest percentage of entries that won some kind of ETH payout in this span was 94.1%.
So, what does this all tell us? Simply put, if you want to maximize your chances for earning ETH rewards in All Star Rare, make sure you’re playing cards of players who are likely to start.
Does that seem too simple? That’s because it is.
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
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SorareData Strategy Show: Game Modes Prioritization
🚨Live at 12pm EDT/5pm BST/6pm CET on Friday!🚨
Lairdinho and psufans2 discuss all the new game modes that Sorare introduced this week and identify which competitions will be worth prioritizing over their regular contests.
SorareAndrews Podcast: 2022 Liga MX Apertura Preview
Lairdinho and Black are joined by Pichi and JDBurinho to discuss the upcoming Liga MX Apertura, including important transfer speculation and goalkeeper battles.
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SorareData Strategy Show: U23 Expectations and Speculations (with Harry Trades)
Lairdinho and Harry Trades review the latest U23 transfers and rumors, and then discuss the SO5 fallout from those moves and others.
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