Splinterlands Detailed Season Review
It seems that almost every season Splinterlands is tweaking things and I am experimenting with Modern format to see what works best. In this season review I will take a deep dive into what I have been doing and how the changes have impacted overall rewards.
Season Summary
This season I decided to try Modern league once again in order to try to get more Fortune Draw entries. It turned out to be a hard balance, particularly trying to get on the leaderboard to get some extra Glint tokens.
I did manage to get into the Modern league leaderboard and finished at fourteenth place, but I am not sure it was worth it since I got only twenty five thousand glint this time around. This also meant that I needed to have at least one hundred battles. I did one hundred one battle in order to complete the five entries for the fortune draws.
Last Season results
| Statistic |  Wild |  Modern |
|---|---|---|
| Battles | 315 | 101 |
| Rank | 390 | 14 |
| Rating | 3840 - CHAMPION_III | 1940 - GOLD_III |
| Rating High | 3860 | 2000 |
| Win PCT (Wins/battles * 100) | 50.79 (160/315) | 64.36 (65/101) |
| Longest Streak | 7 | 11 |
The downside of playing in Modern it seems that despite having a much higher winning rate in modern sixty four vs fifty percent it seems that my overall glint and even SPS earnings have suffered.
Let's compare the average earnings in Modern and in Wild league per battle. To make the comparison we will use Total SPS earned / Total battles formula.
Modern: 124.415/101 = 1.231 SPS per battle
Wild: 919.41/315 = 2.92 SPS per battle
Despite higher winning rate because my rating is much lower in Modern I have earned less SPS in Modern per battle compared to Wild league. I will try once again this new season to make see if starting at a higher level will help.
Earnings and costs
| Earnings | # |
|---|---|
| SPS validator block validation |  5085.584 |
| SPS staking reward | 1235.381 |
| SPS ranked battle (wild) | 919.41 |
| SPS validator reward | 320.965 |
| SPS brawl | 236.501 |
| SPS ranked battle (modern) | 124.415 |
| MERITS brawl prizes |  9427.0 |
| GLINT ranked |  212026.0 |
| GLINT season | 212026.0 |
As we can see SPS validator block validation rewards continue to be my top source of SPS earnings. Ranked rewards are in the third place behind staking rewards even if we combine modern and wild league SPS earnings. This could change next season as going forward SPS staking rewards have been reduced.
Costs
| Costs | # |
|---|---|
| GLINT rewards draws | -705000.0 |
I have definitely spent more Glint token rewards than I have earned this season. That is because I have tried to get as many reward chests as possible to upgrade my reward cards as well as to get more Fortune Draw entries this season.
Reward draws purchased
As you can see I spent some glint tokens trying to bring up the level of my common reward cards, so I purchased four hundred common reward cards using glint. It didn't move up my common reward cards as much as I have hoped and going forward I think I will try to level up my reward cards via chest purchases.
I also purchased all of the minor and medium reward chests in the first tranche and also purchased six ultimate reward chests.
Special items earned
 |  |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
As usual I have not earned any special items such as packs or land plots, but I did earn forty two energy which is pretty good as it represents close to two extra days of energy.
Cards earned
 regular bcx: 61 gold bcx: 1 |  regular bcx: 60 gold bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 2 |  bcx: 1 |
 bcx: 45 |  bcx: 4 |  bcx: 5 |  bcx: 6 |  bcx: 45 |
 bcx: 4 |  regular bcx: 64 gold bcx: 1 |  bcx: 2 |  bcx: 68 |  bcx: 44 |
 bcx: 2 |  bcx: 6 |  bcx: 44 |  bcx: 46 |  bcx: 4 |
 bcx: 55 |  bcx: 47 |  bcx: 41 |  bcx: 6 |  bcx: 8 |
 bcx: 2 |  bcx: 4 |  bcx: 7 |  bcx: 4 |  bcx: 1 |
I have earned a good amount of reward cards even earning a couple of Shadowcomb Duskrose jackpot cards which I am very happy about. I also earned some gold foil cards which is always nice.
League rewards
Thanks to playing in modern league I Have advanced five leagues in modern and two leagues in wild, so I have earned a good number of chests overall, though wild league reward chests are of the higher level and should be more valuable.
League rewards special items earned
| | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Once again not much of the special items in my league advancement chests.
League rewards cards earned
bcx: 2 |  bcx: 8 |  bcx: 9 | bcx: 3 |  bcx: 1 |
 bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |  bcx: 1 |
 bcx: 2 | bcx: 2 | bcx: 1 | bcx: 3 |  bcx: 1 |
bcx: 3 | bcx: 7 | bcx: 1 | bcx: 1 | bcx: 3 |
bcx: 2 | bcx: 1 | bcx: 6 | bcx: 2 | bcx: 3 |
I did earn a couple more jackpot cards in the league advancement chests which is very nice.
Closing notes
Overall it was a productive season, but playing in modern league needs one more season to see if it really makes sense. Jackpot cards and Fortune Draws are the new variables to consider in addition to SPS and Glint earnings. Here is the chart of my total SPS earnings:
As you can see there is a small drop in SPS earnings, but more importantly playing in Modern league has caused my Glint earnings to drop more significantly:
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I still keep giving them my DEC. I am not sure why. I think I only get about 100K GLINT at the end of each season.
That means that you get another 100K during the season for the total of 200K glint...
Not horrible, but still not great. I'm waiting to see if they are going to launch another voucher only card. I have a ton of those building up that I need to burn and you can't move them out of the game anymore can you? You also can't buy wagons with them which sucks.
I think they just launched a new voucher card with the update today. Having said that you can move them out from the game by converting them to DEC first under the Liquidity Pools, then you can transfer out DEC to Hive Engine and swap that for Hive or anything else you want...
Ah, okay, I will need to check it out to see if it is something that interests me.
Here she is :)
https://ecency.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/cloveria-morthlana-voucher-card-incoming
Thanks for sharing! - @clove71
