⚽️ SorareData Newsletter, Issue 14 ⚽️
What’s 🆕
🔦 Feature Spotlight
How well can you compete for ETH threshold rewards with four cards? 🧐
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
What’s 🆕
Suggested Lineups: Our new lineup builder has been enhanced even further with a suggested lineup tool that will build optimal lineups based on your gallery cards that meet certain adjustable criteria.
Now available for single scarcity All Star, U23, Champion Europe, Challenger Europe, America, and Asia competitions, SorareData members will be able to see their optimal lineups with a single click.
Users can discard suggestions, lock cards and customize your settings, such as putting more weight on L15 averages and matchup probabilities and less on community predictions and last-5 starting percentages, for example. Additionally, users can save their presets to use in future weeks, or use different presets for different tournaments.
Are there specific players you definitely want to use but need help completing your lineup? That’s an option too, and will be displayed after you’ve added at least one card to your lineup.
Players who have injury designations on SorareData are removed from consideration by default, but users can activate a toggle if they believe players will be eligible for the upcoming gameweek.
We also want to acknowledge that the suggested lineups feature does not cover everything yet, but we’ve been working very hard to develop the tool even further to make sure we can help with all Sorare competitions.
And, just like all of our new features, the new suggested lineups tool will be available to all members for the next two weeks. After that time, Star members have access to the tool for unlimited lineups, while Pro members can get up to three suggested lineups per gameweek.
🔦 Feature Spotlight
Live experience on our mobile app - Tracking your results during a gameweek is one of the most exciting parts of Sorare, and our mobile app makes it easier than ever to see how you, and your players, are doing.
Let's start with the Games tab of our Gameweek Center, where you will find all completed, live and upcoming matches for the current GW. This general view allows you to plan your TV/streaming schedule to watch your players in action. Additionally, players in your active Sorare lineups are shown with a tinted background.
Going deeper, if you click on a player icon, you will see all the stats he accumulated in the match, how many fantasy points each were worth, and the Sorare lineup(s) he is in. In the image below, you can see the player scored 100 points and is in a Specialist Limited lineup that scored 318.5 total points:
To follow your results during the GW, simply click on the Lineups tab, where you will see all of your Sorare teams ranked by standings position from best to worst. Clicking on the little arrow at the bottom of your lineup will show how many points you are away from winning a reward, the next tier of rewards (in orange), or how many points you are away from the tier below (in green).
You can also estimate the number of points needed to reach a higher tier reward if you only have one or two players left, though this is more relevant when there are only a few games left to play in the gameweek.
Green lineups indicate that you are in a reward zone, and the tier of reward specifically shows below. Additionally, all the rewards you are in line to win are displayed in the summary atop the screen.
But if you really want to maximize your sweat, what better way than to follow the players of teams that can still overtake you in the standings?
To do this, go to the Rankings tab and check the standings for the division you're interested in. You can then filter by Unfinished lineups only to see which teams still have players remaining, as well as their current standing.
In this example, you can see that 97% of the cards in the entire competition have been played, but Sorare manager Georgeh still has a player left to play, so anything is possible!
And, maybe best of all, SorareData members can activate notifications for any match, allowing you to get real-time alerts when starting lineups are available, matches begin and end, any and all decisive actions occur, and more.
There is no better way to follow Sorare during a gameweek than with the SorareData mobile app, available for iOS and Android.
How well can you compete for ETH threshold rewards with four cards? 🧐
We previously wrote about the success of lineups that compete for threshold rewards in All Star Rare, and it’s time to update our findings now that we’ve had a few months of data without common cards.
As a reminder, we used to see between 60% and 80% of all entries in All Star Rare include a common card, a percentage that dropped to 0% in GW 292. Many Sorare managers used a goalkeeper common card to help them compete for ETH threshold rewards, but with that option no longer available, some choose to use a DNP (did not play) goalkeeper because they are cheaper than starters. These cards obviously score zero fantasy points, therefore contributing nothing to the 205 or 250-point goal, but it still allows managers to submit lineups.
There was also a bit of an expectation that the number of entries would decrease if not every manager who used a common card bought a rare, and while we saw a little bit of that early on, the return of all the European leagues seems to have helped get close to the previous highs.
In addition to the total number of lineups in All Star Rare, we also have the data to see how many are actually qualifying for ETH threshold rewards each GW:
Sorare managers have much more success reaching 205 or 250 fantasy points during weekend gameweeks, which we can see a bit clearer on this chart that shows only those:
GW 310 was quite fruitful, as just over 60% of all entries in All Star Rare won some kind of ETH threshold reward. This level isn’t unheard of either, as 20 of the last 44 weekend gameweeks saw more than half of the entries in All Star Rare win a threshold reward, and that timeframe included two international breaks, which are usually very tough because of the reduced number of players available.
But we’re not here to review how many total managers are winning ETH threshold rewards, we’re here to see how many have been able to do it with DNPs in their lineups, either by choice or not. Sorare technically defines a DNP as a player who has a match and does not play, which seems simple enough until you realize that a player without a game is not included. Given that both players score zero, we’ll combine them for the purposes of this analysis.
It’s also important to remember that not every DNP is created equally. Some cards used in Sorare competitions are for players who don’t have matches, some are known injured players or backups, and some are injuries that are announced after a gameweek deadline. From a data perspective, it’s difficult to split out each one, so for the purpose of this exercise we’re simply examining all lineups with at least one DNP or at least one player who didn’t have a match to see their success in winning ETH threshold rewards.
We could simply examine the total number of lineups with a DNP each week that reach 205 or 250 fantasy points, but we’ll instead look at them compared to the total number of entries. Theoretically, an increase in total lineups would lead to more lineups with DNPs, but that doesn’t give us a good understanding of how successful they are compared to all lineups.
There are a number of things to digest from this chart, including the increase after common cards were no longer eligible in Rare competitions. While the increase in total lineups didn’t begin until after GW 292, the number of DNP lineups increased as commons were no longer available, and some users replaced that common with a DNP card.
Generally speaking, we’re seeing more than 20% of all lineups in All Star Rare during weekend competitions win some level of ETH threshold with a DNP in their lineup, which is pretty impressive given only four cards are contributing to the total score. That number moves to between 10% and 20% for midweeks, but even still, that’s a solid number of Sorare managers winning ETH with incomplete lineups.
We learned previously that getting five starters in your All Star Rare lineup almost guarantees that you’ll win some kind of ETH threshold payout, but it seems many managers are simply content to compete with four cards and hope they land in that 20% group of successful entries.
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts
SorareData Strategy Show: Progressing to Pro Tournaments
Lairdinho and psufans2 discuss what Sorare managers should consider when they begin to think about progressing to Pro competitions, including the types of cards they should target and why patience is necessary.
SorareAndrews Podcast: Reward Excitement
Lairdinho and Black discuss which rewards they were the most excited to win, and why many Sorare managers don't get overly excited even when they win.