Splinterlands Social Media Challenge! Single Account or Share the Deck between two Diamond Level Accounts

Splinterlands is a game, but it is also somewhat of a DeFi project. In addition to liquidity pools, staking SPS which definitely fit DeFi definition the game itself can be thought of as mining SPS and NFTs. Your NFT assets - cards can be thought of as an equivalent of mining equipment. So here instead of mining bitcoin by using mining hardware we are mining SPS and reward cards using our NFT assets.

In the Splinterlands game we are using our deck of cards for mining SPS via the gameplay itself. So we have to manage a few things such as ECR and composing best decks for the ruleset. We have a choice of upgrading decks to get more wins, but if we overspend on cards then return on investment may actually fall as the best cards would not necessarily pay off via increased SPS rewards.

As we manage our ECR play in particular one of the questions to answer is it better to have two accounts and share a single deck between them or is it better to have just one account?

Here I am trying to answer exactly that question.

One account to be played until 50% ECR all the time or share a deck between two accounts at a Diamond Level?

I am looking at the last season and compare a single account at a diamond level which I played the whole time and compare it to my other two accounts where I share the a single diamond level deck between two accounts. I do have to note that my single account has better leveled up cards than the shared deck played between two accounts. My process for playing two accounts is to start on one account and play down ECR to about 25% then delegate cards to another account and play that account until 25% and until the first account recovers to about 75% ECR then un-delegate cards wait for the cooldown to be over and start over.

It should also be noted that last season was the last season where we had regular rewards cards. Going forward the rewards cards will be soul-bound. In the long term these cards will be sellable, but it may take a while until that happens. Also, with daily and season rewards chests there is an element of luck so it would take more than one season to determine which strategy is really more profitable.

I am using Splex.gg to compare Season Rewards.

First let's look at an account that was playing every day until 50% ECR:

Next let's see the results of two accounts that shared the same deck:

If we just take a look at the totals we see that a single account appears to be more profitable:
Single Account: $109.72
Shared Deck: $66 + $26.10 = $92.10

Next let's look into the number and type of rewards chests:
Single Account: 91 Champion and 70 Diamond Chests
Shared Deck: 38 Champion and 43 Diamond and 33 Champion 62 Diamond for the total of 71 Champion and 105 Diamond Chests. So we see that two accounts earned more Diamond chests than a single account, but less Champion Chests. Basically 20 Champion vs 35 Diamond chests. If we take a look at the Expected Value per Chest and in particular Historical Average Values Over the period of 30 days
Expected value of 20 Champion Chests is: $0.774 * 20 = $15.48
Expected value of 35 Diamond Chests is: $0.308 * 35 = $10.78
So we have slightly under $5 of a difference in expected value for the chests. I expect that due to the way multipliers are set for the soul bound rewards it might be more profitable to earn more Diamond chests than Champion chests going forward...

Another way item to look at the value of the SPS earned via ranked battles:
Single Account: $11.13
Shared Deck: $3.30+$3.94=$7.24
Once again Single Account earned more in SPS than two Shared Accounts by slightly under $4.

What this analysis doesn't take into account is SPS and Gladiator cards that were earned. Those double with Shared Deck. Hard to place value on Gladiator cards, but we can see what were the earnings in SPS. All three accounts are in the THGaming Brawlers so they earned exactly 83.844 SPS each for the season. The value of this SPS is: 83.844 * $0.02766263 = $2.32 at the time of writing this.

So based on this analysis a Single Account should earn about $6.5 more than two shared accounts. I believe the reason for this is the fact that single account can reach Champion League faster and play longer at a Champion Level than two accounts with a shared deck.

Splinterlands is a great game and can be quite profitable, and if you are not playing you should join now and start mining great rewards: https://splinterlands.com?ref=seattlea