Best Splinterlands Season Yet - Rank 83 - Worth Investing More to Go Higher?

I don't usually post twice a day, especially not two Splinterlands Posts, but I feel today's achievement of Rank 83 deserves a commemoration post, especially as it may not happen again!

I haven't played much at all this season - only 151 battles - just enough to complete my daily quests and sometimes a few extras. With 101 of those battles being wins, it gives me a 66% win rate, or thereabouts.

I'm also one of only two in the top 100 with no guild.

Probably as far as I could get on a budget

I finished last night's daily quest sitting at around 4800 points and rank 107, bored of playing after 30 minutes, not really feeling like trying to push on.

I logged on this morning, knowing that it's a quiet time, to see if I could sneak up a bit higher, and it worked quite nicely - a few easy-ish battles, one with the guy who came first (I lost!) and then the three below, after which I'd decided it was time to stop:

Note that:

• My collection is worth around $2500.
• The two people I won against have collections worth >$3500 and >$4000. I won because of superior strategy.
• The guy I lost against had a collection worth $18000 and he played the same strategy as me, just harder because of his superior max cards. Literally nothing I could do to win this.

I was particularly pleased with my win agains VCDragon:

Check out his maxed out cards against my punier deck!

I hate this rule set, I think I lose against this more than any other - but I managed to win this one with a combination of taunt, one other decent melee monster (with heal and thorns) and then just magic, oh and Lord A, always reliable.

Why did I stop here?

Basically I was sure I'd pushed my luck as far as I could - nearly everyone in the top 100 has better decks than I do, and there's no way the ratio of bad strategists to (good - average) strategists is 2-1 - so statistically I was looking at a long losing streak given the ratio above.

Valnamor helped

As I mentioned on my alt @revise.leo yesterday, I traded a few cards in for a Valnamor yesterday, that certainly helped with about 6 of my wins to get me up here.

Is it worth investing more?

I honestly can't see any point in struggling to get higher than rank 83 next season, there's no way I'd make T50, where you pick up 10 Untamed packs as a prize. I'm not prepared to spend the money to be competitive up there!

I know some of the accounts up there, I know most of them can play, and the vast majority have collections that are worth considerably more than mine.

I think I'd need to spend another $1000 to be consistently competitive for the top 50.

I can't be arsed with tournaments, I don't enjoy playing enough, despite the fact that I've placed in a couple of them.

Ultimately I think my role is to just stick around, do my dailies and irritate people when they lose to an unguilded lesser weighted deck with a rather silly name. That's kind of satisfying in itself, and write the odd blog challenge and investing post, which I like doing.

And of course in the long run, I need to keep in mind that earning anything from gaming, even if it's just a tiny amount of DEC and rewards cards is a bonus! Not to forget about the increasing (hopefully) future value of the cards.

All in all I'm quite happy with top 100, for a non gamer and someone with a lesser collection.