Yeah, that's what I'm finding. And I always play through to end or three losses, in order to get at least single draws off of losses, and to get more than two draws off of later wins.
The Badge draws tend to be pretty good, it seems. And, on PC, it doesn't matter too much if I never pull the Gold player on the board. Right now, most won't sell for over 2000MT, so I'm generally just quick-selling them. And Silvers will sell on the AH for at least 1000MT.
Don't really care about getting AMY Clyde, but would like to get to the Amethyst board to, hopefully, have even higher MT value reward pulls. And because, for some reason, ever since I got into Seed 4, I cannot get an RttP game but can get Gauntlet games more readily than ever before.
I think, maybe, on PC, Steam sales have upped population and there's a lot of new players on Gauntlet. I feel like, before, I'd play the same five or six guys over and over and half the games were really tough competitions for me, with a quarter of them having me getting blown out, and me blowing the opponent out in a quarter of them.
Now at least half of the games I've been getting are against really poor players. Played a guy with a 3 Diamond lineup, with one being a Center, while I had a Bronze PF as my biggest guy. He spent the whole game bricking threes with Diamond Jimmy Butler and didn't even try to exploit the inside matchup.
Lots of games against guys who have no idea how to create an open shot, and who just run around and pull size-ups, hoping that they'll break an ankle. Or chuck inbound passes way up the court and turbo in for a dunk, which gets through a decent amount of the time, but is usually the sign of a guy who can't score any other way.
Played a guy last night who, totally inexplicably, did almost nothing but launch threes with LeBron, most of them contested. 3-18.
Not sure if it was fun or not, but getting free Microwave and other premium badges made it seem worthwhile.