SorareData Newsletter, Issue 8 ⚽️
What’s 🆕
🔦 Feature Spotlight
How many Sorare managers are winning each week? 🏆
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
What’s 🆕
Second Division Europe Stats: with Sorare’s announcement of a new Second Division Europe competition, we are please to introduce detailed player and team stats for Ligue 2, 2. Bundesliga, Serie B, Segunda División RFEF, and Football League Championship. SorareData users will be able to see top SO5 scorers, as well as detailed statistics from all players within the leagues, and we’ve added an option to see them on our Player rankings and Team rankings pages.
New dropdown menus: we have improved our dropdown menus to make it easier than ever to navigate to exactly what you’re looking for on the site.
Thanks to constructive feedback from our users, we’ve added a few new links to the manager dropdown, including a direct link to our Gaming arena so you are reminded more often to submit those SD League lineups!
You can also now easily navigate to your price alerts and trades, and check the status of your membership.
Live Market: we have combined our Live auctions and Live offers pages into one for a more streamlined card searching process. Whether you’re looking for limiteds or super rares, football or baseball cards, or L15 under 40 scorers in the upcoming gameweek, we’ve got you covered.
🔦 Feature Spotlight: SO5 Utility
Have you ever looked through your gallery and saw cards that you just couldn’t remember ever using in SO5 tournaments? Or are you wondering which cards in your gallery have been the most successful in terms of helping you win rewards?
Our SO5 utility tool shows you exactly how many times you’ve used each card in competitions, as well as how often they were eligible to be played, how often you used them when they played and when they started. Additionally, you can see how many cards it helped win, how many times it qualified for an ETH reward, and the total ETH won.
To get there, simply go to your gallery page, click on the SO5 stats tab and then SO5 utility.
Each column is fully sortable, and you can filter it by card scarcity, player position, and only cards currently in your gallery (it shows all cards you’ve used in SO5 competitions, whether you still own the cards or not).
How many Sorare managers are winning every week?
Almost everyone is familiar with our Owners of at least N blockchain cards chart, which helps many understand how many active Sorare users are participating in tournaments with non-common cards.
Going further, we can see things like the number of total entries in All Star Rare and All Star Limited to see if they are growing, though it’s worth noting that the worldwide football schedule ebbs and flows, so we have downturns in entries during the northern hemisphere’s summer months when the European leagues are in their offseason.
But what we really want to see is the distribution of winners, or rather, how many different managers are winning each gameweek.
The graph below, showing the number of individual reward-winning managers each GW, actually follows a similar trajectory as the one above, as we saw an increase throughout the 2021-22 European season before a dip in the summer and then a rise back up for the 2022-23 season. Also, for the purpose of this exercise, we are excluding entries and rewards from The Academy because every user in that competition is an individual winner. We should also point out this is simply the number of individual winners in each gameweek, not new winners each gameweek.
We can take this one step further because we don’t just want to see how many individual reward winners there are but how many there are compared to the number of available rewards there were to win (it’s tough to have a high number of individual reward winners if there aren’t that many rewards to be won).
The two charts follow closely, as the increase in available cards (meaning minted clubs with matches) leads to an increase in managers submitting lineups versus available rewards (and vice versa for the drops). What this tells us is that the average number of rewards per individual winner is quite stable, which may be a bit surprising given how fluid the number of entries and rewards are each gameweek.
We can also look at this from the scarcity angle to see if we see a wider distribution of reward winners in limited versus rare and super rare contests.
Overall, what we want to see is an increase in the number of individual winners each gameweek because it means we’re seeing an increase in users who are participating in tournaments and winning. Sorare’s recent announcement that they are increasing the number of tournaments they offer while also increasing some prize pools should allow for more managers to win prizes overall, which should allow us to see the chart increasing in the future.
📺 Latest Streams & Podcasts 🎧
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SorareAndrews Podcast: Let’s Keep the Toys in the Pram
Lairdinho and Black are joined by Jimmer to discuss the frustrations that some Sorare managers have had of late, and Sorare’s impressive response in terms of new game options and rewards adjustments.
SorareData Strategy Show: Will Second Division Clubs Ruin All Star and U23?
Lairdinho and psufans2 discuss the new addition of second division coverage from England, Spain, Italy, France and Germany, including whether those cards should be allowed in main competitions like All Star, U23 and special weeklies.