Congrats man! It truly is a great feeling. I've only tasted it a few times myself, but when I did, I surely wrote about it too!
Quality and enduring statistics on gameplay should be very high on the development list
There are definitely some third-party sites and services that offer this kind of insight, like Splintercoach. Then there's @jacek-w, who would do those tournament ranking updates. I always enjoyed tracking my progress on those leaderboards like you said... seeing if I made up ground on the Gold Foil all-time lists. XsuilX certainly keeps rising higher and higher each season. It would definitely help to have all-time stats tracked, it is something I would look at all the time.
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