👋 Welcome to the new SorareData Newsletter
Welcome to the first SorareData Newsletter, a weekly publication where you will find information about our new features and tools, reviews of recent competitions and auctions, links to our recent live streams and podcasts, tips on how to get more out of our tools, data-driven analyses, and more.
Similarly to our site, we’re always looking to improve and expand our offerings, so if there’s anything you would like to see included in our weekly updates, please do not hesitate to reach out to me, Andrew Laird, via email (andrew@soraredata.com) or Twitter (@andrewmlaird).
What’s ahead:
🔦 Feature Spotlight
🌈 Rewards
📊 Specialist Limited Rewards
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
🔦 Feature Spotlight
SO5 Tiers - Sorare managers in line for rewards love to examine the tier lists to see who they may win. It’s relatively easy to see the list on Sorare, but if you are wondering whether the player has always been a Tier 1 reward, for example, there was no simple way to see if they recently moved up or down the list…until now.
Available on every player page, SorareData users can click the SO5 Tiers tab to see historical tier positioning for any player in any competition, both moving from one tier to another and where in each tier they fell in a given gameweek.
Let’s check out Ulsan’s Seol Yeong-Woo as an example:
As we can see, Seol moved from being a mid-Tier 3 All Star reward during GW 200 to a Tier 0 by GW 250 before recently dipping back down to Tier 1. Additionally, users can change the competition they want to see, such as Asia or U23, as well as the length of time they’d like to see on the graph.
Of course, there’s more. Scrolling down the page will also show the tier that player was in for each competition in each gameweek, when cards of that player were rewarded, and how high up the tier list they were.
For example, Seol was in the top 4% of the U23 Tier 1 reward pool in GW 280, with the 5th place finisher in U23 Rare winning the card.
🌈 Rewards
Speaking of rewards, congratulations to Sorare manager Gastlife, who won at least one reward in every scarcity during GW 280! (and nice screenshot 😉)
An incredible accomplishment that made us wonder if it had ever been done before, and if so, by whom. It turns out that there have been five other managers who completed the coveted rainbow of rewards:
Spicer in GW264:
Ashoka2a in GW 268:
SorareBear in GW 272:
Migo and Surface-2-Air-Missile in GW 274:
Congratulations to all and good luck to everyone chasing the 🌈!
📊 Specialist Limited Rewards
Sorare’s Specialist and Underdog competitions have helped non-elite-scoring player cards become more valuable for winning rewards. As a result, we’ve seen an increase in market volume for players who average fewer than 40, 45 or 50 fantasy points over the last 15 gameweeks.
We’ve also seen some great prizes rewarded from these contests, including rare cards of players like Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Vinícius Júnior, Enzo Fernández, Julián Álvarez, Joshua Kimmich and Diogo Costa in Specialist Limited League. And because of the requirements that at least two players average 40 or fewer fantasy points in the last 15 gameweeks, and no more than two players from the same team can be used, or that only one player can average at least 60 fantasy points, you get successful lineups like this one, which won the Messi rare:
Analyzing scores required to win rewards is a bit tough for Underdog because the game rules aren’t always consistent; some weeks, all players must average 40 or fewer fantasy points over the last 15 gameweeks, but in others it’s increased to 45 or 50, which theoretically allows better players to be used and, therefore, winning lineups have more fantasy points.
The Specialist Limited League rules have remained consistent, so it’s a bit easier to review the minimum fantasy points required to win rewards, which have (so far) been Tier 0 rares, Tier 1 rares, Tier 2 rares, Tier 2 limiteds and Tier 3 limiteds.
As we can see, the points required for rewards have decreased recently, most likely because of the reduced player pool after the European season concluded. That could give an opportunity to Sorare managers who have galleries more heavily weighted toward the America and Asia regions until the Europeans start up again over the next two months.
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts
SorareAndrews Podcast: Preparing for the New European Season
Lairdinho and Black discuss how they are preparing for the upcoming European season, including whether they are speculating on certain transfers and how they expect certain job battles to play out.
SorareData Strategy Show: Buying is Suspended
Lairdinho and psufans2 discuss how they are reacting to the significant drop in ETH lately, and where they think the best opportunities are in terms of trading and SO5 gameplay.
Love this format! Looking forward to the next one!
Excellent news! Thanks for everything