Best Sports Cards To Buy During The Summer - Data Driven Sports Card Investing

What's up, everybody? It's Gary Vee and this is the sports Card Strategy show. Because you know this. There is no off season, no off season when you get into this game. The reason why you pay someone like Paul Hickey to get your sports card strategy together is because when you're starting out, you need perspective, you need wisdom, you need insights. And so he's been around the track enough times where he can actually coach you up and guide you. Doesn't mean he's going to take you to the promised land tomorrow. But you now have a coach by your side that can advise and kind of even create these pathways where you can get the education yourself. And that's a lot better than dugging it out on your own. What? The kids better buy my rookie card now because after this year, the price ain't coming down. Welcome in, everybody. I'm your host, Paul Hickey. It's time to sit back, listen, learn and earn with me on the Sports Card Strategy Show. Welcome no offseason.com family. We are so happy to have you with us to help you make money flipping sports cards using data driven sports card investing. You can probably hear the inflection in my voice is different today because we've got Lefty back. What's up? Come on, let's go. I'm very excited to be back. It feels like I haven't been home in a long time, you know, and, and this feels like home. Although my basement has been flooded, so my home feels in disarray. My sports car portfolio is flying. So yeah, we, we've had a lot of rain in Tennessee. It seems like you've probably had the flash flooding in the rain in Kentucky. So we, we feel bad for your, your family and your basement and the collectibles that got flooded. And good thing you had insurance. And let me tell you this good thing my cards were in the vault. That's all I'm saying. Hey, PSA vault comes in handy finally. Yeah, they finally were. It's paying off. So for those of you who don't know the, the joke, you can go back and listen several episodes ago where we've talked about lefties love affair with the vault and then they kind of got in a little lovers quarrel and, and, but hey, you know, being in the vault when your basement flooded floods, I guess is a good thing. Lefty. We have another family member in the no offseason.com family that we need to welcome in today and its name is Hobby Flipper. Let's go. We're going to talk a lot about Hobby Flipper today because the actual people in the Nooffseason.com family who are using Hobby Flipper right now are really excited about it as well. And you and I are excited. So we're gonna, we're gonna talk about, of course, the best sports cards to buy in the summer and the best new tool in the hobby, which is Hobby Flipper, a new member of the no offseason.com family. So we're going to get into that. 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So real quick, if you're a premium member of no offseason.com you received an email invite to access Hobby Flipper for free last week. If you do not have that yet, check your spam folder. It shouldn't be in your spam folder, but it might be because people use different emails and different email clients and it filters things differently. So check your spam folder and if you haven't received it, you can email me directly@pauloffseason.com lefty before because I know we're going to talk so much about Hobby Flipper on this episode. We're both jacked up about it. Let's actually real quick, before we do that, let's acknowledge the fact that I am not going to Fanatics Fest this year. You and I had a great time last year and you know we had a great time at the national with Turner, but you and I had some one on one time at Fanatics Fest. I'm not going obviously like the price is just too expensive for me. I think it's because of the World cup and the hotel prices in Manhattan around anywhere near the City of New York. Did you look at what a nice day would be? I did, like, several months ago because I fully planned on going to Fanatics Fest, like, back in March or February. I was looking at trying to get a media pass and then looking at flights and hotels and the hotel prices for like, a three. The same hotel we stayed in last year for like, three nights or. Yeah, it would have been three nights was like $3,500. Three nights, which is. Which is like, maybe quadruple the price of what it's been the last couple of years. And it just did. So to me, it was honestly, like, could I go, yeah, but how many cards could I buy with 3, $500? And then the. Then the. You would have to make insane profit on those boxes. Yeah, like, exactly. And I just don't think that the. Like, the. For the last two years, I've kind of spoke openly about the. The Cactus Jack boxes being, like, the reason that I've been able to profit at Fanatics Fest. And you're right. Like, I just don't think those are gonna sell for Even close. Yeah, I mean, maybe. Maybe they sell for 800, 900, depending on what they are this year, but I'm okay to pass because there's a lot of other good stuff going on. What about you? How do you feel about it? Yeah, I think I was. As soon as we left last year, I was like, wow, it was a really cool event to be in New York City to actually go to a card show with a lot of really cool spectacles. But I also. And. And I mean that as, like, it. It was a. It was a spectator sport at Fanatics Fest. Like, they re the cards even that were available were first spectators. You know, like, it was like they were trying to just get views in the building rather than, like, flippable objects, if that makes sense. And so there were ways that we made our money back. You know, I sold every single item that they gave us for free. And then I also sold, you know, our Cactus Jack boxes and the other stuff that we were able to get our hands on. And we did turn a profit on it, but I was just like, for. For a small amount of profit, I think I ended up getting, like, a $200 profit after everything, like, flight everything. And so I was like, I can make a $200 profit on several grand a different way. Yeah. You know, and. And although it was really cool to be there, and it was cool to, like, be with our hobby friends and see everybody, and, you know, we got to Hang out with Crim and meet Gary Vee and all this other stuff and see some people that are in our no off season, you know, family. But still at the same time, it was, yeah, it was, it was, it was passable. If I, if, especially now that it's going to be so expensive now, if we were able to parlay somehow fanatics fest with going to the World cup final, which would have been epic and millions of dollars, then maybe I was in because it's like, I think the original date was the same day or the same weekend as the World cup final, which is at MetLife. So. Yeah. And I did try to pitch some sponsors to pay for our hotel, but nobody came through. So. That's all right. I'm gonna, we're gonna do a show where we buy cards with that money. So that's, that's coming up. I'm excited about that. And then of course, the nationals coming up later this month. I will be there and, you know, I hope to see as many members of the no. Offseason.com family as possible there. Speaking of the no offseason.com family, just, just a note, the sports card strategy show is obviously for everybody whether or not you're a premium member. But if you are a premium member, you're getting this first. This is airing live for our premium members first. So anyone in the live chat is a no offseason.com Premium member. All right, Lefty, we're going to talk today about the top sports cards to buy in the summer using our no. Offseason.com sports card rankings. I'm excited to hear what you have to say about that. But in the meantime, before we get there, let's talk about Hobby Flipper. So there's a ton of data tools and we've been great supporters of those data tools. Market movers, great tool. Card ladder grade tool. Ebay has a lot of data in it. Ebay has a lot of data in it, but ebay doesn't. None of these tools show you cards to buy. None of these tools actually help you with decision making based on the data. They show you the data. You can buy the cards, but they don't recommend which cards to buy based on the data. And I think that is the elevator value prop of Hobby Flipper. And so we're going to get into that today and nooffseason.com as well. I mean, nooffseason.com has come out, you know, with the my athletes feature, the sports card rankings. And Hobby Flipper is really just adding to that with adding historical data that no offseason.com hasn't had so much between the two. We're getting better and just adding more for our premium members. So currently Hobby Flipper is in beta, meaning, you know, you can, you can buy it, you can use it, it's working, it's accurate. But there are things about it that will continuously improve very quickly over the next three to four weeks because we're still building it, basically. But the purpose of Hobby Flipper is aligned with the purpose of no offseason.com to help you find the right card for the right player at the right time and to help you make money flipping sports cards. We don't try to compete with Market Movers and Card Ladder in terms of the numbers of cards that, that are tracked. So like for example, Market Movers, for example, has like 7.5 million different cards in it. And that's insane because I still input cards that I can't find. Yeah, like, that's true. Same here. I mean that I still like, that's that many cards and there's still cards that I can't find on like the Caitlin Clark rated Rookie Retro, which I've added to Hobby Flipper through my portfolio, which we'll get into later. That's a good example of a card. Like, why isn't that in any of these platforms? The good, the good thing is, and that's part of the reason why I decided to build Hobby Flippers. Like, first of all, out of the 7.5 million cards that exist or that are in, that are tracked in these platforms, there's only like maybe 10,000, 5 to 10,000 that are even worth tracking. And. But to your point, I didn't even think of that. But you're right, it's like 7.5 million cards and you're still missing some cards that should be tracked. So for those two reasons, it's like I wanted to build our own tool, our own, our own historical data tool@nooffseason.com so it really just focuses on the cards that we feel are the right card for the right player at the right time based on the data. Just a few things we'll go through real quick. There's a lot of raw to grade upside and downside that's shown in Hobby Flipper automatically when you bring up a card that doesn't exist in any other platform. The Regrade, Upside and Downside, which, you know, crack and submit is what we've called it. But the Regrade, Upside and Downside, this is These are things that we've talked about forever, right? Like by the way, we're two months away from the five year anniversary of the sports card strategy show. That's epic, dude. That's pretty freaking cool. So we're obviously going to do something to celebrate that. We need some shirts or something. We need, we need everything. We need. We need shirts, banners, we need hats, we need better production value in the show. I mean we need cards. We need cards. Absolutely. Five year anniversary. We need more like a card applause. Things like that in the show anyway. But in the last five years we've talked about these things that we're now bringing to life in this platform called Hobby Flipper. I also think so. Like for example, data around like the best time to auction off your cards. Like real data from ebay auctions around the best time to auction off your cards. Then there's just like overall improvements, better inventory and flip management. Makes sense to integrate no offseason.com with hobby flip or we're going to get into that as part of that becoming the top Hobby Flipper. The Hobby Flipper rankings. Like how cool is that? I mean, I know, like that's really cool. Making a game of gamification element out of it is so fun, dude. So there's things right now I really think like that may actually be more addicting for me than this addicting hobby, which is like. Which is scary but awesome. Like. Like right now, I mean you and I haven't added all of our flips. But I mean right now there's this. There's somebody. Dirk Diglin. Dirk Diglin and Tim S. Are beating us. I'm number three. Sean Red five cards is number four. And you're number five in the Hobby Flipper rankings. But like anyone who wants to Turner's in there. They're doing. Yeah, Turner's number eight. Good work, Turner. But he doesn't have all of his flips in there either. I mean he's got two flips. Tim S has one flip and it's a net profit of $3605. Tim S is killing it. And the coolest thing is you can see Tim S's flip. So Tim, what's a Victor Wembanyama? Victor Women Yama tops Chrome Autograph 2023. And it was a raw to grade win. Raw to grade. Which is part of the reason why. Right? So he, he has a net profit of 3. Yeah, you said it. 3,605 profit margin 100.3%. So. So that means he paid $3,000 raw for the card. Well, since he. We're looking at his public portfolio and the public portfolio doesn't show what he paid for the card he sold the card for. Well, I mean, I guess, but here, the math. Yeah, you can do the math. You're right. Yeah. Like, I mean, there's fees that are taken out, but you're right, the fees aren't the bulk of it. The fees are like probably 13 to 15 of it. So yeah, he. But I mean, yeah, he paid. Maybe he bought it like a 9 or 9.5bgs or something like that. Well, it said he purchased. It says he purchased it on Valentine's day this year. February 14th. So on Valentine's Day this year, the Topps Chrome Base autograph for Wemby probably was around that price. And then it looks like he expedited the grading. Right, because then he sold it May 22. He got it back a few months later. And so. Yeah, but he doubled up. Good work, Tim. Good job. Dirk Diglin has 24 total flips in here. A lot of, a lot of like RAW to grade stuff. But then he also has a RAW to raw flip. How about this? Shohei Ohtani, Bowman Chrome Base 2018. That's the batting. Purchased it on March 11, sold it on June 29. Let's go $214. That's what I'm talking about. See, Dirk Diglan's just kind of chipping away at like these. Let's go, Dirk. Twenty to. To a couple hundred dollar wins, but he does have a big win. Shohei Otani tops Heritage Purple refractor. Raw to PSA10.20.729.13 profit. Gosh, this is cool, dude. I'm. This is awesome. Flipper rankings. The other thing is you can go, you can do top flippers and top flips. And so like, hey, I'm at number six. Let's go, let's go lefty. So let's go top flips. And the cool thing is you can bet your ass that we're gonna use all of this data and more on the sports card strategy show. We're not gonna annoy the crap out of you with the Hobby Flipper promotion, I promise you. But we will reference it because it is a very actionable data tool here. But like a cool thing, for example, is like, these are the top flips over the past year. But assuming everybody puts the dates incorrectly, look at the top flips in the last 30 days. Lefty McKee, number one dude. Bryce Eldridge. How about that? There's a Sean red five cards, Bryce Eldridge flip number three. That's cool. That's not a car we've ever talked about. 73.3%. But you know, LeBron James. But I know Sean read five cards has been a no offseason.com member for a long time. And I know that he has these Bryce Eldridge cards from several years ago. And I mean, good on him for. So this must be a sale, like, I don't know, a recent sale here in the last 30 days. That's cool that he's done well on. And he must have got that, you know, pretty. Pretty inexpensive at some point over the last few years. But cool to see, like, all the different stuff in here. Like, there's a CGC10 flip, Johnny Hopkins with it with the 85 win on a CGC10 flip, Aaron Judge. It's cool to see this. Yeah, this is awesome, dude. Top flips over the last 30 days. I think you'll really, really, really start after data's, you know, been in here a while or after we're able to, like, kind of go back. I think there will be several athletes that rise to the top. Yeah, I think there will be, like, you'll see the top margin athletes, which would be kind of cool. I want to talk today about the features that currently exist, and then I want to talk about the features that will exist to your point, because you just made me think of something. So for those of you that don't know, I mean, basically what we did was we built this tool over the last couple of months. We've got historical data, complete historical Data for about 5,000 cards in here. We're currently in the process of basically ensuring that the listing, that the. That the listings of each card are linked to the proper card for the most. For the most part they are. But we do have a feature where you can report a listing if you see something that's clearly the wrong card. And so there's. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of. It's in beta 1.0 and, you know, you can go to hobbyflipper.com and you can watch the tutorial videos to kind of get a feel for exactly where we are right now. We've added some features based on feedback from our Discord members who got the first access to it. Then the next wave of access came to the rest of the Nooffseason.com members. Lefty and Turner have also tested it. Of course, Lefty's provided some great Feedback this. I don't want to jump around too much. We'll come, we'll get, we'll get to Lefty's contributions here in a second. But Lefty, you know, right now the homepage is the Movements tab. This is not going to be, this is going to be a core, always going to be a core of Hobby Flipper, but it's not going to always be the homepage essentially though, you know. So this is pretty simple. It allows you to search for cards based on sport player year grade set variation. There's a filter to filter price, the different periods of time. And then once you click on a card, my favorite part is when you click on a card, it takes you to the card details pages. And I'm in love with the card details pages for several reasons. The first reason is it automatically calculates the play. So for example, I've clicked on Victor Wembanyama topps Chrome Refractor PSA9. Okay, when you click on a PSA9, it is going to automatically run the calculations of what it looks like to cross it over to bgs. So right here you automatically. See, that's cool. The potential win based on the last sale is a $516.89 win. If you were to get a BGS 95 now, the potential loss is a $253.21 loss. One thing I haven't mentioned yet in this episode is the we are in the process of probably sometime, maybe as early as next week, the sports card rankings@noallseason.com are going to be fully powered by this Hobby Flipper data. So in other words, like, we're going to have more PSA to BGS nine. Five more. And then if, I guess, conversely, if you were to Click on a BGS95 from the movements tab, it's going to run the upside and the downside, the potential win and the potential loss of crossing it over to psa. So there's that and then of course there's the raw to grade aspect of it. So for example, if you click on this, you know, this is kind of a, you know, regular type example. Well, sorry, this is a Jaden Daniels crossover from psa. But here's, here's an example Raw to grade Drake May, Don Russ Downtown. Right. So it's going to say based on the recent sales data, here's what. And the trend line. So the recent sales data and the trend line. And I'll explain that in a second. Here's the biggest upside for cross or from raw to grade. So you see the Drake May to PSA 10 calculates your immediate 125.81% ROI. And of course it gives you the green thumbs up for go for psa. So that's what I mean when I tell you this is a recommendations engine, not just a data tool. This is telling you either, yes, try to grade the card at one of these grading companies and it's telling you the exact ROI that you're likely to get or it's telling you no, don't, don't do it because there's not enough upside and or the GEM rate isn't in line with it. So we're still following the same formula. We're calculating in the back end of Hobby flipper. We're hitting gemrate.com so shout out to gemrate.com Ryan has been amazing over there, super helpful. Gemrate.com we have a gem rate ID for each one of these cards that's in Hobby Flipper. And so we're hitting the gem rate for the four major grading companies and that is also part of the calculation. So yes, sometimes you might see okay, well there's CSA upside from raw to great at psa but you still might see a thumbs down at the go for PSA and you might see a negative roi. And that could be because the card has like a 16% gem rate or something like that. So there is just massive upside overall to using Hobby Flipper and the not only is the tool itself working very well and giving you instant recommendations, but again all of this is going to be compiled into rankings@noallseason.com sports card rankings. So you're going to see a massive improvement in the sports card rankings@noallseason.com the other thing a couple other things about the card details page lefty that I that I really, really like. One thing that's frustrated me about Market Movers is if there is no sale in the time period of the the period that you've selected, you don't see any of the data. You have to then go and change the time period on Hobby Flipper you're going to see the last sale regardless of if you're in this time period of the last sale, then as you extend the time period you of course see more data. So there's just like little things that have sort of frustrated me about other data tools that I've been able to just go ahead and rebuild and correct over here at Hobby Flipper. Of course I'll hand it over to I'll hand it over to you in a second. But again like as you scroll down the page, you're going to see best time to auction off each individual card. You're going to see the top seller for each card. You're going to be able to go in and validate the sold listing and of course report something that doesn't look right. And then we try to get it corrected right away. There could be a good example right here. Like for example, one thing that happens with these downtowns from 2024 is sometimes oversized. Yeah, exactly. So we're in the process of filtering out all the oversized, trying to make sure that it doesn't keep coming into that sale. But right here you see like a 2.215.50. Clearly the average sale price of raw in the last 180 days is over a thousand for this card. So that's probably an oversized. All we need to do is click on it here and let's see it is. It doesn't say oversized but if you go into it like defected or something. Yeah, it might be jump. This product is. It doesn't say oh it's here we go. Part of the downtown. It's the choice is in the description which is one of. That's, that's the reason why up here. So we're gonna go ahead. Here's my favorite thing. I have so many favorite things. Here's you just click report and just say jumbo and then we get it and we correct it and it says reported. So. All right man. Yeah, I have a question here. Go for it. So I've been. So I basically as you have been talking, I've been using Hobby Flipper on my, on my browser as well. So the most recent card that I bought that I am excited about flipping is this, this Caleb Williams. So I bought a Caleb Williams uptown. So here's my question. This is the one year data this that I'm on. When you see the go for psa, that's awesome. When it says the GO for BGS and the thumbs down it says the BGS ROI is negative 49%. But is that because. But the average sale price is still higher than the raw like the raw sale 406 or raw purchase price 406. Yeah. So what is this pulling from? Is that from a PSA 10 or is that from a raw value? So the B. So does that make sense? Yeah. Like right now for example, I'm looking at it on my screen so I'm on the same page you're on and it says, like, to get to the latest BGS sale, it looks like you have to go back 180 days. So when you get to that. So for example, like you, I think when you originally pull it up, when anybody originally pulls it up, it's going to default to 14 days. And then I see what you're seeing. It's like, okay, 22.85 PSA ROI. But it says since there's been no sales of either in the last 14 days, it's still calculating it based on the last sale and the trend line and the. See how the tr. Like you can see on my screen right here that the trend line is trending down. Here, I'm gonna take back over. Oops. There we go. So the trend line is trending down. And so. But as you extend out, you find to get to a BGS sale, you have to go to 180 days. When you get to that sale, you see that the Last sale was $600. So when you do the math around the raw, having to buy it at 406, the grading fee, the transaction fees that we also take out of it, and the gem rate is why you're then getting. So you actually brought up like the perfect example to talk about when I was talking about the formula. It's like, so you, you know, you also, you'd look at the PSA 10 and you'd be like, okay, well, 22.85% ROI. Shouldn't it be more than that? Because if you get a PSA 10, it's telling you you can sell it for around 1300, but you can buy it for 406. So that should be more than 22%, right? Well, not necessarily, because it's taken out. Yeah, it's taking out the fees. It's taking out and then it's hitting the gem rate. So it's, it's calculating your projected average sale price in all of that. And so it's taken into account your likelihood of getting a PSA 10, your likelihood of getting a BGS 95. And then based on that, it's saying, go for PSA or don't go for psa, Go for bgs, don't go for bgs. Now, I think a lot of people will want us to show the gym rate data, and that's fine. That's something that we can, that's something that we can add. You know, we can add like right here in this little box, you know, and then it can start to make a little bit more sense as to why The ROI might be that way. We've got this little tool tip here and it's kind of a blanket statement projected based on the card's probability to score either mint or non mint, as well as the price trend line. Now the trend line is interesting, so I'm working with a development team on this. There's like me and two other people that are primarily working on this. And one, one conversation that we've had is sort of around, should we base the, should we base the upside based on the last sale? Should we base it on an average of a timeline or should we base it on like a trend line? And so what we've decided on, because remember Lefty, this is interesting conversation. Actually we used, when we launched the sports card rankings, one of the first problems we had with the sports card rankings was like, what if it's a new, what if it's like a new release? Yeah. And then, and then like the, the price of this card is based on like a pop. The price of the PSA 10 and the sports card rankings might be based on like a pop 100, but by the time you get it back, it could be a pop 1000. So the PSA 10 upside that you initially purchased on based on that ROI could be significantly lower by the time you get it back from grading. Now, of course we have this grading longer turnaround time with everything and the PSA value shutdown and everything. So how are we, how are we accounting for that? One of the ways we're accounting for that is adding more of a grading fee. One of the ways we're accounting for that is by showing you like we just showed you here, by showing you all of the grading companies, not just psa, which was in the previous sports card rankings, but I think it should be based partially on last sale, partially on a certain time period, but also partially on a trend line. So as the card trends down, then the ROI percentage should reflect that. As the card trends up over various periods of time, then the ROI should reflect that. So we're basically in our mathematical calculations, we're incorporating the trend line of the card in it. So for example, if you were to look at a, the first release of a, like the AJ Debance, the first release of his, you know, draft night card in PSA 10, when that hits Hobby Flipper, it's obviously going to be this huge multiplier. Well, we're not necessarily going to have it as that huge multiplier. We're going to have it based on what the trend line over time actually looks like for that as more and more hit. So it's going to have this way of sort of evening things out. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, but I just think it's going to be a little bit better. And so being able to code that all from scratch based on what we've been able to do@noallseason.com for the last several years has kind of, I think, given us an advantage for this new tool. I like that a lot. Are you able to. So, like, when you add the compare page, are you able to add the preferences of what pops up first for you or is it just a blanket statement? PSA 10, BGS 95, SGC 10. So what's automatically happening is you're, if you click on a RAW card, you're getting the recommendations for the grading companies. If you click on a PSA9, you're getting the possible win and possible loss for the crossover. If you're clicking on a BGS 9.5, it's the same. That's what we've got in place right now. For any other card you're just essentially just. And for all of those cards you're also getting this compare. Yeah. Yeah. I added the PSA 9. Yeah. To it because like when I raw to grade, usually I'm thinking it's either going to get a 9 or a 10. So with this, with this Caleb Williams, I, I added the data of the PSA 9 as well. So I was like, okay, I wonder if there's a way to like make that a. Save that as like your preference. Yeah, there's not, but and I should point something else out. The compare feature is great. Yeah. But it will say. It will, it will say the same things for the entire grading company. So, like, if you've noticed, I now have raw PSA 9, PSA 10. It's showing you obviously the last sale of the PSA 9, the average in the last time period that you've selected for the PSA 9 and for the PSA 10, which is different but it's always going to show you the same PSA roi. Yeah. Right. We had, we actually had several discussions about this. Like, should we reflect what the actual ROI would be if you get a nine? And ultimately we came to the conclusion that, like, if you're submitting it to psa, you're submitting it to psa. We don't know what you're going to get, so we're going to show you the same roi. Yep. And green thumbs up or red thumbs down regardless of what grave grade you've selected in the compare feature. But that's cool. I like what you're saying about maybe being able to save it again. We can do whatever we want with this platform. It just costs a little bit more money. Why do you say that exactly, my friend? You nailed that. Case in point, Lefty was like, hey, you've got this great portfolio feature which we're about to show you guys in a second. Why don't you make it where you can be on the card details page and just click add to portfolio. And then boom. It's just all. And then boom. So that's a lefty feature right there that we added. Boom. And you would have known that if you were in the Discord. So join the Discord. Yeah, that's right. Absolutely. Good call. So in terms of. I really like this brother. I think this is so cool. I also really like that I have a one on one relationship with the lead developer. Boom. There it is, baby. Now like, okay, you may not like that. Like, how do you feel about the top sellers? This was something that I thought. I think this is cool too. I wanted to talk about this actually. Okay, let's talk about it. What do you think? Well, the main thing I wanted to talk about was I think it's interesting to see this is data that I really have always. Once you are on ebay a lot, you realize that there are a couple of. There's probably 10 big accounts that like when you're first on ebay you're just like, okay, whatever. I don't, okay, this seller's highly recommended or whatever. But then like when you're buying consistently, you're realizing, oh, I've actually bought several cards from this person. For instance, take a gander at number six here. Number six is our guys. Those are our guys. I was excited to see that they were on the list. That's our, our Chinese friends over there. We actually buy quite a few cards from Mirrors on over the last couple of years. I think you bought a bunch of WIMBYs off of Marazon. I did. I took the risk. I bought like several wembies for like 500 each. I mean now they're way more expensive than that but like prism silver based, $500 each back in like 2023, 2024. And they all gemmed like they were all at PSA so they were legit. I like this though. I think it's interesting to me, Will, how often is this updated? Like every day. So it would have been interesting to Me, I don't know if you can go back and find this data. And I'm not saying you should. I'm just saying, remember a couple of months ago when Probestein got hit with the big scandal? Yeah. I would have wondered, would that have dropped them significantly? Maybe they were number one four months ago, had we had this tool or whenever that thing was four or five months ago, where they would have. Would they have been number one. And now they're at number three because their market has gone down in terms of their trust or like their, Their, their trust socially with the, with the hobby. I think, I mean, I think you're onto something there because. And I will say, like, this does change. Like, so the way that the seller rankings work is it's ranked by the number of cards per seller with the lowest average sale price in the last 365 days. So, like, it was PSA when this was, like when we loaded in all the data, all the historical data for all the cards, and I was literally the only one using this a few weeks ago. This was PSA number one. Over the last few weeks, DC Sports 87 has now overtaken PSA. And they do sort of change. Like, you can see they're close. 564. So DC Sports 87 has sold 564 cards in the last 365 days that we care about that. Yeah, that's what I was, I was fixing to make that caveat. Yeah. It's not just overall, who's selling the most cards, because that probably would be PSA or. I mean, I'm assuming. Or. Or it could be totally different if we looked at that. It could be like, who knows who it could be. Right. But like, but the cards we want. The cards that we want is selling. And again, Hobby Flipper is really only based around the cards that we want or that we want you to have, you know, and like, this tool is. Or the lowest average sale price. So, like, for example, this Drake May Prism Green 2024 raw $26.19 average. The reason why DC sports 87 gets a point for that in our seller rankings, essentially, they have 564 points. Right. You get a point for selling a card with the lowest average sale price that we care about. So, so the, so they're the seller rankings. Because D.C. doesn't want to be on the top, but we want them to be on the top. We want you to buy. We want you to buy from the. These cards, from these sellers, essentially. Yeah. Because now it's not a Perfect science, right? Because, yeah, if it's a raw card, maybe they're not as gradable. We get all that, but it's. It's still valuable data. Yeah, I like this sale. Timing is also interesting because, like, how many times. And we've got sports card school@nooffseason.com how many times have we answered questions on the premium pod or elsewhere where people have said, what's the best time to auction off my card? Well, like I showed you, over here on the. On the card details page, we have auction price deviation heat maps for every single card. So you could see when's the best time to auction off this card. But we also have, as I was just showing you, aggregated all of that data. So if you're just looking at. If you just want to see when's the best time to auction off day and time to auction off sports cards, Wednesday at 3am tells you that that's surprising. It's based on your local time. So for me. Oh, that makes sense because it would be Wednesday, Pacific time. At midnight, it would be 2am for you, it would be 1am no, it'd be 2am Because I'm this Central time. Yeah, I know, but that. So. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pacific time, midnight, Pacific time. Correct. Correct. Yep. Which is where a lot of people are located. Exactly. You're exactly right. So that's why. Interesting. I wouldn't have thought Wednesday night would have been the jam. So, again, like we've always said, okay, well, make your auctions end between 8 and 10pm Eastern time. Well, I mean, are we. Are we right? Well, now we have data that tells us really, what. What might be better. You know, the darker the green on this, the better, just in an overall, for overall standpoint. So, yeah, like, late Tuesday night, early Wednesday morning at midnight Pacific time appears to be, you know, that is the best time. 32.1% higher over 53 sales. And again, this will. This could change because, I mean, it's. It's updated daily, and the more sales that we get in here, it'll change. But. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. It is crazy. All right, so one of the other things I wanted to get into today with you specifically is the portfolio. So Lefty and I had a little exercise leading into today's show. We talked about it briefly at the beginning of the show with the Flipper rankings. But I have gone in and I've added maybe, you know, I was using Nooffseason.com's inventory tracker, so I'm in the process of moving things over to Hobby Flipper for, for this particular feature now, I'll get it in a second. I'm going to clarify the differences between no offseason.com and Hobby Flipper and why we have both. But for the inventory tracking and the sell alerts, I highly recommend that everybody uses Hobby Flipper for that because it's, it's way better than it is@noallseason.com so adding things to my portfolio, I've probably added in my current holdings. There's like maybe 10% of my current holdings over here. Right now we're going to add a CSV upload feature. We're going to add other features that are going to make it easy for people who are Transitioning this from Nooffseason.com or from some other platform. Maybe a lot of people that are watching and listening might just have it in a G sheet and they want to subscribe to Hobby Flipper and we'll have a CSV upload feature shortly. But for now, you can go and manually add holdings and you can change them into flips. I love this because it's, it's going to eventually lead us to Data Lefty where because as you add a holding, you can say first it was raw, then it was a PSA 10, or first it was a PSA 9, then it was a BGS 9. 5. Hobby Flipper will eventually have a feature where we will have all of that data that we will aggregate. So I will be able to come on the show and tell you the overall success rate of PSA9s to BGS9.5s, for example. And it'll be based on this honor system of people using Hobby Flippers saying, I got a BGS 95 after, after it was a PSA 9, that kind of thing. But that doesn't exist anywhere else. So there'll be more data that comes out of that. But for now it's just like this great tool of managing your portfolio, managing, you know, and keep keeping track of how well you're doing with your flips. We're also going to add things like being able to run reports for yourself to be like, well, what's the best player? How am I doing on a player by player basis? How am I doing on a raw to grade basis versus a graded to graded basis? There will be reports that you're going to be able to run within your portfolio dashboard to be able to look at those things. But for now it's, it's, it's an amazing Portfolio and inventory tracker, but also sell alerts. So one thing we haven't talked about yet is like, I've got these Anthony Edwards Prism silvers in here, PSA 10s. As soon as there's a sale over 20 of what I'm into this card for, I'm going to get a sell alert at the end of that, at the end of that day, and I'm going to get a sell alert that's going to be an aggregated alert at the end of every day of any card list of cards that fit that criteria. And I'm going to get that in an email, which is a drastic improvement from where we've been@noallseason.com. but again, right now it's pretty like, I won't walk everybody through, like, how this actually works. You can go to hobby flipper.com tutorials to see how all this actually works. One of the things I wanted to kind of talk about with Lefty is not only like, the portfolio and the flips. Here's my flips. And again, if you add, if you just mark a card as sold in your portfolio, it automatically goes to flips and it calculates your total net profit and your total profit margin. The public link to a portfolio. Lefty, how many times have people asked you, hey, man, like, you're into sports cards. Would you if I gave you ten grand? I just want to give you ten grand. And I just want to have you buy and sell sports cards for me. And then we work out. So you're managing my investment portfolio like an investment manager. And then we work out, like when you pay me out, when I want to be paid out, all that stuff. And we work out, like your little commission fee and everything like that. How many times? I know that's happened to you at least once, possibly way more than that. How many times has that happened? One guy just is beaten down the door, okay? I've, he, he's asked me a lot, you know, he's asked me in, like, every time. He's like, yeah, dude, I just, I see what you're doing, and I don't have time for it. Can you do it for me? You know, and I'm just like, dude, I'm hustling my butt off. My cheeks are rosy red. Trying to, like, trying to hustle my butt off to get my current portfolio for me looking. Well, if I had to, like, compartmentalize between my portfolio and yours, both of us would suffer. That's my general response, but fair enough. I can see how someday that will be a quite lucrative business for me. So, like, what Hobby Flipper can help you do? Because I had, like, one of my best friends. He's still one of my best friends, and he and I have been really good friends since sixth grade. And he's like, he's followed us and everything like that. And he. He understands obviously what I'm doing for my career. So he. And I never thought he would do this, but in one of our. Like, I was talking to him like, a month ago, and he was like, I want to give you ten grand. And I've had other people, like, I've had other people obviously, over the. Over the last, like, three or four years want me to do this for them. And he said, like, I just want to give you 10 grand, and I want to have you manage it for me. And I don't, like, I just trust you with it, and I don't want to really know about it or whatever. But. But what I thought about is in Hobby Flipper, like, creating, I would create an account for him, and then I would manage his portfolio the same way that I manage my own, but in his own separate account. And then what you can do in Hobby Flipper is to be in the Hobby Flipper rankings. Obviously, you have to opt into that. So when you're in your portfolio, when you. When you click on your profile link, you can check or uncheck, include me in Flipper Rankings, but you can also check or uncheck, make my portfolio publicly visible. And so what I would do and what I would recommend any of you listening who are in this situation do is create a Hobby Flipper account for anyone that you're managing sports card investments for, including yourself, and make the public portfolio link viewable, and then you can share that link with that person so they can see how you're doing for them, essentially. So, for example, this is my public portfolio link. The flips that I've entered into Hobby Flipper. And I just, I think, like, I believe in full transparency here. People are gonna. People are gonna say about the Flipper rankings, well, how do we know who's being honest? And. And it's like, yeah, why would you not be honest? Like, why would you. You know what I mean? Like, to win. Like, yeah, maybe Dirk Diglin, arbitrator over here on us, but who cares? Like, this is all for this. This. This is. This can be more than for fun because it is for money, but this is all for fun. This is all to keep people in the hobby. This is all like, this this is a hobby. And so, yes, we're making money, but we're having fun. And this, like Lefty said at the beginning of the show, gamification, how fun is this? Like, get into Hobby Flipper. Get in the Flipper rankings. Get into no offseason dot com. Learn how to do this, get better at it. And anyway, I think the reason, like, the reason why you want to be honest with it much rather like even more so than like you want a true value of what you're doing. I think like, a really important thing is you need to know when you are failing to get better. And so, like, sure, you don't. You cannot make your account public. Or sure, you can lie on it, but then you're not making yourself any better. You're just sharing the wins. Like, what if Mr. Dirk Dingler or whatever is Dylan Dingler? Maybe that's who this is. If. Yeah, what Mr. Dirk here, the German Moses. If you will shout out to Dirk Nowitzki. If this is Dirk Nowitzki and he's only sharing his wins, then Dirk is not getting any better at like making. So, like, he could be spending a hundred and ten thousand dollars and he's making wins on 20,000 of them. It's like, well, then you're also still losing $90,000 on that. Yeah. So like, for you to be improving on what you're doing, you need to be putting all of these in here. You got to get better and. Yeah, exactly. And that's why I started tracking my stuff diligently a long time ago, is because I wanted to know, like, what works and what doesn't. You know, like, what am I, how can I get better? So you, you nailed that, man. That's. Let me tell you what works. You ready for this? I'm ready. Invest in LeBron James and Victor Wimanyama. Yeah. Because that was your top flip. They've been flying, you know, like, when I look at my flips over the last, you know, you know, 60 to 90 days, my big sales have been Shohei, Caitlyn, LeBron and like, those are the people. That's your. That's three, two of your five from two years ago. Absolutely. It's crazy how lens on your list this year. So when Binyama we're entering a really good time to buy him. LeBron continues to go up. Shohei continues to go up, Kobe continues to go up. It is, it is a short list, but yeah, I'm 100 with you on, you know, continuing to narrow your focus and, you know, buying the Right card for the right player at the right time. If you need help selling your cards at the right time again, you can use our Sell Alert feature for Premium members only. No offseason.com Hobby Flipper.com I want to take a quick break, tell you what some of the noofseason.com members are saying. I want to clarify what you get at no off season and what you get at Hobby Flipper and then we're going to get into the top buys of the summer for Lefty and I. Okay? No offseason.com members get sports Card School which I am going to revamp Sports Card School soon and I'm really excited about that. Premium Pod episodes so one extra episode of this show every week for Premium members. Unlimited advice discord with member points grading services, the Card Analyzer and Predictor tool, My athletes feature sports card rankings, top ebay auctions and all the Hobby Flipper benefits. Hobby Flipper gets all the Hobby Flipper benefits. So it's a different price point, two different options. Nooffseason.com gives you a lot more and is limited to a certain amount of people. The only real overlap is the inventory tracker and the Sell Alert feature. And that's why we spent some time showing you the portfolio and the flips and talking about that. Hobby Flipper is an amazing tool. I want to really underscore that it doesn't replace Nooffseason.com in any way. Okay Now Whitaker P. Says. Paul, Big fan of the show and I'm excited to see how I can start implementing Hobby Flipper as a part of my investment strategy. Ted says, appreciate all you do. Pumped for Hobby Flipper. These are current no offseason.com members by the way. Chris L. Keep up the great work. There's always something new to learn. Gerald hey Paul, Another relatively new member in the last few months. Loving your takes on flipping singles after getting back in the hobby after years away with breaks and ripping wax. Leaning in quickly, learning quickly that that's a losing battle. Daniel R. Congrats on Hobby Flipper. Seems like a really incredible platform and I sincerely wish you, your family and your entire team nothing but continue. Hey, that's me. That's left. The entire team. I just want this is Quentin last one. I just wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you for all the help to date, answering my questions on the Premium Pod and turning around my questions on specific cards so quickly. Really appreciate it. I'm having a blast getting up to speed. For the record, I'm already about Halfway through sports card school. And we'll be through the rest of it soon. All right, Lefty, Best sports cards to buy this summer according to our rankings@nooffseason.com. i've got my list ready to go. I don't know. I mean, I don't know what you're doing. I'm going to let you go first. Thanks. I. I kind of, you know, jumped the load here earlier while I was saying Caleb Williams, I think, is still one of my favorite buys. I've been looking into his downtowns, and they're pretty. Like, people are not willing to come down to comps on them, which I understand, which is why I think he's a good buy. You know, like, when we talk about does the hobby reflect good buys right now or. Or does the hobby reflect the accurate prices of where a player is? We hear a lot about, like, people being underrated or undervalued. And I'm like, well, the market says that is their value. So I think the undervalued question goes a lot deeper than just like, oh, this card's undervalued. It's like, well, okay, maybe, but maybe the people just don't care about that card, you know? And so. But for instance, when you can't find a card, when people are not willing to put them on auction because they're like, this is going to sell for a bazillion dollars. I've seen that a couple of times. I think my. My brain goes back to Wimby Silver's when he was a rookie. My brain goes back to Jackson Holiday when we were at the national and we could not find them anywhere. My brain goes back to Wyatt Langford when the boxes first dropped. And it was just like when that happens. Typically when there is a selling marker, those are good cards to sell because everybody's just like, they're finally available. I'm gonna go get one. Downtowns for Caleb Williams are currently hard to find in good condition. And like, they're way that people have them basically only on buy it now, and they're like way over comps. So what I did was I repositioned. I said, I still want some Caleb Williams market. So I repositioned to uptown. So the uptown is a cheaper parallel in comparison to the downtowns. But they are available. And I think that's where I still wanted to get scratch on an athlete that is highly desirable. A lot of people really think that Caleb is going to tear it up, and I happen to agree. But I also don't care if he does or not, because I'm building on the hype. So an uptown Caleb Williams, I shared it earlier, is where I'm at. I've also been just going through while the World cup and the NBA Finals, like over this past month when I haven't been on the show. Basically what I've been doing is selling every soccer card I've ever heard of. I sold every U.S. men's National Team card I had from the last five years. You know, I sold literally everything because I had a bunch of stuff that was still hanging around from my our last like season of, of investing. Like when the World cup was in the winter and then our sales didn't go well. Well, now they're flying. So I'm glad that I was able to sell the soccer cards when I did. So I was able to get out of soccer cards, but now I'm fully moving into quarterbacks. So I've moved into Lamar Jackson, moved into Patrick Mahomes, moved into Caleb Williams, moved into Jaden Daniels, moved into Jackson Dart, moved into. I was like Jackson. Dark card that I'm in right now is the downtown. So I mean like I'm basically taking downtown's uptowns or kabooms and basically. And then I'm also investing in some older rated rookies. So the Optic rated rookie Lamar Jackson and then the Donrus rated rookie Josh Allen. So those are the cards that I've just been swimming in over the last month and I'm. It's going really well so far, so I'm already projected to have good wins if I was to sell all these cards. Now because I did a bunch of raw to grade, I did some like graded degraded action on some of these cards, but I did a lot of raw to grade stuff. And even the nines are turning profit right now, which makes me think like this is going to be a huge win in about a month and a half. I love the Caleb Williams uptown and as we saw in the Hobby Flipper card details page moments ago, it's a go for psa and it's a great price point to do that. And Hobby Flipper takes into account that $85 grading fee right now for PSA. So to be able to get that at the regular service level, get it back relatively during the start of the NFL season, which is when you would want to have it back. I love that play. You've always been good at timing. Also like the Lamars of the world, the other guys that you mentioned, I think the quarterback strategy right now is really Strong. I totally agree with you on Caleb Williams. I, you know, I want to kind of. Let's go into Jackson Dart before we go into my guys, because that's an interesting one. So Jackson Dart, you. Did you say downtown or kaboom? I thought I bought a downtown. Yeah. Okay. So that I want, I want to unpack this for everybody because I know what Lefty is doing here, but I want to be very specific with the audience about what Lefty is doing here. So correct me if I'm wrong. You are going to go with not necessarily an expedited PSA grading, but you're going to, you're going to go with like at least the regular service level. And that was your thought process in getting this downtown. Because it is an expensive enough card to justify the $85 fee. It's not taking a big enough percentage out of your total potential net profit. Because it's such an expensive card and you're trying to win it in an auction. You're making sure that it's great. It's a raw to grade play correct. And then it's a sell when you get it back to me. This could be one where if you time this right and he has a big first couple of weeks of his second season, this could be one of those plays that we talk about being like the raw degrade timed with that, where you time the hype rise of the NFL season with a performance spike. But the worst case scenario, hopefully, is just that hype rise, right? Yeah, I think so. This card, when I started looking at it, I was starting to look at prices around $1,000. And I was like, that was like, right when Jackson darts cards were coming into Topps Chrome, which is when Jackson darts cards were going crazy in like, I think like February, March. I waited a little bit because I was like, I don't want to buy when everybody's going nuts on him and his acquisition and like the Giants getting Harbaugh and all this stuff. Like, there was just a lot of buzz around that. And then with them having a good draft, his cards went up to. This card went up to about a thousand dollars. So then I just saw some that I've. That I put through our centering tool on nooffseason.com and when what I did there was I found one that I was like, okay, this is a good one. And then so I reached out to the seller, I said, would you take less than a thousand? And he was like, well, what's your offer? And I was like, 7:50. And he was like, yeah, I'd take that. And I was like, nice. Sick. Okay, cool. Yeah. So I was like, oh, all right. So I went for. So I bought in at 755. I did immediately send it into grading, which. Here's another pro tip, guys. This is really important. What I did was. I have never been able to. And I hope ebay fixes this. Actually, this is. This would be like a main thing that I would talk to ebay about. That's frustrating. When I find a Buy it now or best offer card that I like because it's well centered because I'm buying these inserts that are between probably 500 and $1,200. When I find one, that's like a go. And I. And I'm like, okay. Or best offer. I can't. Or best offer it. Really? I can't do that because then I also can't click send to PSA Grading in that. In that little section. So they should have a section that's like, if said offer is accepted, would you like to send into psa? They don't have that right now. Like, so what I have to do. What I have to do is I have to reach out to these sellers and say, hey, would you take 750? And they're like, I have a buy it now button. And I'm like, okay, well, this is what I'm trying to do. Or they're like, I have a best offer. Go ahead and make me an offer. And I'm like, okay, I have to do it through messaging because I have to negotiate with you. And then you have to be willing to change your listing price so that I can say buy it now for 750 and immediately send it to PSA. Yeah, that's crazy. Great point. So it's. It's a hassle, but it is possible. I've done it four times in the past two months, so. So that's what I did. So I had this guy change the listing from a thousand dollars to 755. 75. And I said, purchase. And then he was just like, okay. And then I sent it into regular grading because as you. As Paul has just stated, we can't do bulk submissions right now. And grading is a. Is all over the place. But one thing we can do is if we have high enough margins on these bigger cards, the 84.79 or whatever that it is to pay for regular grading is a good investment and will come back as a green thumb on Hobby Flipper. Yes. So, yes, that's what that's the entire breakdown of the Jackson Dart downtown. I like it and I mean again I will, I will say the reason I like it is because you have this whole play mapped out. You have the cell you are going to sell him when you get him back from grading and it's the only roll of the dice is like maybe he doesn't have a great first couple weeks of the season but maybe the card gems or maybe he does have a good first couple weeks of the season and the card doesn't Jim but the PSA 9 goes up a lot from where you there's just a bunch of different possibilities and the the risk reward really I think goes. There's a lot of risk mitigation here and I think the reward definitely outweighs the risk in terms of of what you're doing with this card. There's just so much hyper on him. I think a lot of people are a little bit like not short sighted is the wrong word but like people are a little bit too quick to snap to judgment around. We're not saying Jackson darts going to be a good player. We're not like Lefty's not betting on Jackson Darts career. He's betting on the the timing of the making money on the buy side which is he already done planning out the play to grade with PSA at the regular service level knowing that he's generally going to get it back at the start of the football season. Maybe I'm going to get it back before that. Maybe right after the maybe. Yeah like the estimated completion time is Jill is it's July 31st. Oh because it's already been so he's already done. He's already sent it in. It's already been received so he's going to have it like that makes it even better. But even if you're listening right now like you could still potentially make this play and your estimated completion date might be closer to week one but it's still good enough timing for you all to go ahead and make a play like this assuming you're buying it like in a similar fashion to Lefty either trying to win it in an ebay auction or in a buy it now best offer type of scenario where you get it at or under recent comps the Donruss version, the optic version. I'm even looking at the this is more expensive but even the kaboom horizontal is interesting. Again getting it integrating right away at PSA is the key and then capitalizing on the early season hype of Jackson Dart and not placing a bet on the season that he's going to have or the certainly the career that he's going to have. But you know, the other guys that you mentioned I think fall into the category of my first guy which is Patrick Mahomes. I've purchased a lot of Patrick Mahomes this off season. You know, it's not I gotta add it to my hobby Flipper portfolio after the show to see kind of where I am exactly with my Patrick Mahomes investments, my holdings. But his prism silver 2017 which is actually just a prism. Every rookie in 2017 was a silver. But his prism silver 2017 card 269 according to our sports card rankings at no offseason.com definitely fits the PSA regular submission right now. 642.50 buy in point. Huge upside in a PSA 10. Not necessarily likely to get a PSA 10. It's a double up in a PSA 9 which makes it gives it a little over 100% projected ROI. So it gives me confidence that as long as I don't buy one that's like has really bad corners, really bad edges, some sort of scratch on the surface or a crease or something like that, it's. It's a good and as long as I'm buying it around the target cost, it's a good play. So I like that one and then another one that's a little bit different. You know, I've been looking at Kobe a lot and when you look at Kobe because he's already unfortunately passed away, there's not selling markers for Kobe. You know, there's like there's really just aren't so you. But his prices continue to go up I think again because the numbers are in favor of Kobe collectors and people coming into the hobby that want to buy Kobe. His overall market, the demand is is starting to outweigh the supply even though there's a massive supply of Kobe cards. So his 1996 Cyber Metal is a 92% ROI according to our sports card rankings for PSA regular@nooffseason.com which I really like. $191 buy in point so much cheaper than the Mahomes card. You can find it. It's going to be virtually impossible to get a PSA 10. But even in a PSA 9 there's a massive multiplier which leads me to believe that even if you don't get the grade that you think you're going to get because Kobe cards continue to go up, that's another Good investment. Also, his Skybox E X 2000 has a green border. Kind of fits that category as well. The reason why I want to talk about these last two cards. First of all, the one that I mentioned, the metal one of our like a lot of you might be like, how why are you talking about these cards from 1996 as a raw to grade? The reason why is because people grade with no offseason.com our P our premium members grade with no offseason.com we just had a premium member gem that card. So I pay, I pay the up charge by the way. Like I you the premium members@nooffseason.com don't. I don't come back and go, oh, you, your card got a PSA 10. Now you owe me 200 more dollars. I just cover that because they're a premium member. So they're not even paying the upcharge. And that's a huge win. Raw to grade with no offseason.compsa10. The other one, the Skybox E X 2000. The reason I call that one out, we had a premium member, like really respect this guy. Like he's definitely gonna be part of our premium family for a long time. Super smart on the discord. He's like, he's like, talk to me about why you have all these Jordan and Kobe and Brady older cards in the RAW to grade rankings. I was like, sure, there's a lot of reasons. Kind of had a good back and forth with them. Yes, they're not likely to gem. I just proved that they do from time to time. Which is means that it makes sense to make the play. You're not losing money on these cards. These are low risk propositions. Even though they might be in bad condition, they continuously go up in value. The Kobe, a lot of these cards, not just this Kobe E X2000 from 1996 Skybox, but a lot of these cards still rank with the high ROI with a zero value for PSA 10. So and the reason they have a zero value for PSA 10 is because there hasn't been a sale in the last 30 days. So this means that of the not only are we accounting for the gem rate, the extremely low gem rate for a lot of these cards and bringing that down, the ROI number down, we're also giving it a zero value for a PSA 10. So. So like this Kobe Bryant card that I've been talking about, 329 ROI on a raw to grade, it's a 400 card. There's a 39 $100 upside or 3200 upside in a PSA 9 there's still an upside in a PSA 7, a PSA 8, there's a zero calculation zero dollars in a PSA 10 and it's still giving you this upside. So I think that that makes a lot of sense. Then of course we do have the BGS and SGC raw to grade. So lower price point cards that make sense to submit to those grading companies. A couple of Michael Jordan cards, the 1993 Skybox Premium Dynamic Dunks gonna be super hard to gem. But again we're not even. We're bringing to the table a zero dollar value for a gem mint grade for those two grading companies. So there's upside even in much lower grades. The other one that I actually really like is a 2001 tops chrome 95 base where he's in his Wizards uniform. But it's a Tops Chrome card. His first year with the Wizards and it's a 41 card. So it's $173 in a PSA 9943 and a PSA 10 based on the gem rate. Projected average sale price of 280. A 216 ROI for this card. Now again the challenge is going to be finding a gradable version but one to keep an eye on and then one that you. You're going to be able to find many more gradable versions than any of these other cards. Lefty mentioned this guy's name earlier. You've heard his name a lot on the show. He's got to be the Lefty. I'm gonna go through like my entire history at some point and put them all into Hobby Flipper. But this player, he's gotta be your darling. He's gotta be the best one for me. Yeah, he's gotta be your guy. Victor Wembanyama 2023 Topps Chrome base card number one. It's a forty dollar card. 532 upside in a PSA 10. 109 upside in a. Well sorry in a BGS 95 or SGC 10 averaged out together one hundred and nine point eight five in the one grade under adjournment grade for those two grading companies. One hundred and thirty four ROI. So those are grading cards. Now Lefty mentioned quarter. Can I ask you a question about Victor real quick? Yeah, for sure. So ideally this would be the perfect card you would do a raw to grade strategy on in a bulk submission. Yes. So like what are you doing with this tops Chrome 1 base right now, are you just buying and holding until the. To the window opens back up? That's. That's an option. But I think. But basically what I'm saying is grade with BGS or sgc. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And get them and get them back. Because like if this were a Auto, for example. Yeah. I mean, I think you just pay the $85. I think I. It's an interesting question you just posed. I wonder if there are cards that exist that makes sense to wait. But. But for me, I would think wimby's got to be close to that. Maybe like a, you know, maybe like a Prism Silver of his or like maybe a card similar to his Prism silver would make sense. Maybe the refractor version of this card. I don't know. Because once you get over a certain price point, then you're like, oh well, I should just submit it regular. Get it back. Once you're under a certain price point, it's like, well this. Will this card hold value? Interesting. Maybe the Jordan, like, actually, I think maybe like a Jordan or a Kobe or a LeBron would be a card where you would hold. So for example, maybe you buy a. We're just kind of getting off topic real quick here. It's not super off topic, but like, maybe you find a LeBron 2003 tops chrome BGS 95 and you're like, again. But again, why wouldn't you just pay the. That one I would just send. I think. But. But Maybe it's a 2008 Kobe tops where it's like him and LeBron. I don't know. Well, that's a good. That's a good topic to look into for another show for sure. Like do a little research on like, what's. What are the top five cards to like maybe buy now that you would be. Or in a grade that you would just wait to submit to PSA after they. I would have. I would think that Victor's top Chrome first would be high on my list. Could be. Yeah. Because I don't see his market going anywhere. And there's probably going to be. And I'm not. I'm for sure not paying $80 for a grading fee for this card. I'll give you that. I'll give you that. That's a good call. Actually. You could buy and wait or you could just based on the numbers, submit to bgs, or sgc, get it back, sell it in October. True love it. Okay. Already graded rankings. I mean we like. I want to give this a little bit more love on Today's show because again the topic of today's show, even though we we had an infomercial for hobby Flipper is the best sports cards to buy in the summer. So Josh Allen 2018 Optic Hollow PSA 10 is one of our top football cards on the already graded or as Lefty likes to say, graded to graded rankings. Its last sale 1875 it's 90 day average 1931 based on its last sale it's down $264 from the previous sale. So that is profit built in on a quarterback with a card that is obviously going to be extremely desirable really throughout the NFL season. But you could make a little bit of money if he gets off to a hot start. But I think he could be a lot of people's super bowl bet too. So that's another potential play. One that I like, you know that I think is a little bit more achievable would be Jaden Daniels 2024 Topps Chrome Rookie Auto PSA 10. So now we're looking at non licensed rookie autos but Topps chrome Jaden Daniels PSA 10 down $189. So there's some built in like again that could be a really good quick flip if you can win that in an auction for a price similar to around that 810. That should be a card that should go up to over $1,000 easily before the NFL season based on the historical data. A couple of more Wemby cards is 2023 Topps Mercury Blue Refractor PSA 10 down $581. If you can get it for around $800 you should be able to make some money selling it in October and then his tops Chrome Certified Rookie Autographs Refractor PSA 9 this was a card I had that I made some money on about a year ago down $545. So some already graded ones. That's again that's a PSA 9. It doesn't have to be a PSA 10 to make money on an already graded card. Lefty, talk about the, the, the, the, the next guy that we got a couple of cards here for because this to me this guy could be like the number one guy to buy potentially for the rest of the summer starting now. You're talking the guy right under Victor, right? Yeah. Luka Doncic is maybe Turner said it well in our group chat he said Luka might have to average 50 for, for the entire season for the Lakers to do anything. Now they also did just get Kessler which makes things A little bit easier. He has a rim protector. But LeBron has left the Lakers seemingly. I mean, I guess there is an opportunity for him to potentially get bought back if he can't figure out whatever else he's going to do. But they. He told the Lakers that they can move on without him at this point, which would lead me to think that he's not coming back. But Luca himself, it's going to have a heck of a year because Austin Reeves and him are going to have the worst defense of all time and the most points. And what sells cards, Hype and points. That's what sells cards. Yeah, you know, like no one's buying defenders. Nobody's, you know, no one's looking out there for bam out of bio cards because he's a nice defensive post. Not. No one's out there trying to find. I only can think Thompson doesn't. Doesn't really sell that. I'm thinking of a guy that was an absolute defender, Tony Allen. That dude was dog. But no one cares about him, you know, so it's like, no, the guy that is selling cards is going to be the guy that's in LA in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform that had some of the craziest hype of all time before he even got to the NBA. And he's going to probably average 38 points this year. He's freaking Luca. It's Luca. And now it's his team and his team is the Lakers. It was just like, that's an awesome, awesome, awesome setup. I kind of wish I still had the PSA 10 silver that I used to have. I wish I just had held it. But I mean, he like. And the other thing I like about it is he's kind of a nice little go where they ain't right now, like, because everyone like, you know, Lamelo gets traded, giannis gets traded. LeBron. There's the news around LeBron. There's all these other high profile trades in the NBA and Luca's just chilling with the Lakers, you know, I mean, and so I think it's. It's an interesting one. So his. I think a lot of his cards that are up for auction right now, rookie cards up for auction could do the same thing where you buy them for the current average sale price over the last 14 to 30 days. Then you sell them at the beginning of November, late October, early November. But his. His 2018 Prism Hyper PSA 10 is down $185. His 2018 Prism Ruby Wave PSA 10 is down $180. The Prism Silver that Lefty had is a great. I just think a great card to win in an auction at any time this summer. And. And then just if. If Luca. Any individual. Any. Any individual performance that he has this year could spike his cards. Obviously it would take a lot for the Lakers to compete for a championship, but you never know. I mean, that dude, they. If he goes off and again in the first, like, if he gets to the first round of the playoffs, goes off, wins a series, that's all it takes for his cards to go up. So I just think probably not even that just like having the likelihood that he's going to be. If they don't make the play in or whatever. Like, if they're. If they're like, beyond the play in tournament in terms of the. What is that? The seventh seed. If they are in above the seven seed in the west, his cards are gunning to go. All right, I like it. So I. I do have, like, a summer sleeper that is not Luca. That is. That is only available to premium members@noallseason.com because I mentioned it in the premium podcast last week. So go there, join, and you'll get my number one summer sleeper. And the hint is that this is, like, something totally off the wall for me. Like, it's not. It's not something that I would normally come out and say, but I think. I think it could definitely work out. It's a bit of. It's more. It's a bit of a longer, potentially longer term hold than some of the other plays that I make. So what were you gonna ask? I was gonna. I was gonna try to guess, but I'll let you make a guess as long as we're continuing to tease it. I will make a guess if I get it right. Are you gonna tell me? Oh, you're gonna guess the actual person? Why don't you guess something about the person, which. Without saying the person's name, and I'll tell you whether or not. Is it a tennis player? No. Okay, well, then I think it'd be a good time to buy Carlos Alcaraz. Okay. I do have a Carlos Alcaraz card at PSA right now. So he's hurt right now and, like, he's missing. He's missed the French Open and he's. I think he's gonna. Or I'm pretty sure he's missing Wimbledon and there's a, like, potential for him to miss another tournament in the US Open. And so, like, if that keeps going, his cards are going to continue to drop and when he comes back, it's not like he's just going to not be the number one in the world anymore. So. Yeah, good point. That's a great, great summer sleeper, Lefty. Thanks for putting that out there. I. I agree. I might have to look into some Alcaraz cards. We've got. I don't know if we have any elk. We got alcaraz cards@nooffseason.com in the rankings. I don't know that we have him added to Hobby Flipper yet, but I definitely. That's on the list. Remember that no offseason.com is the only place on the planet with sports card rankings updated every week. That is going to be like, potentially next week better than ever because we're working on the Hobby Flipper data getting in there. And with that will be a big ui, which stands for User User interface. Sorry, sometimes I go with the jogger. Big user interface design improvement. All right, again, if you like the content on this show and want more, go premium@nooffseason.com now to get unlimited advice answered on our second weekly podcast for premium members called the Premium pod, join no offseason.com before no more spots are available and you get that free Hobby Flipper membership. Lefty, before we sign off, any parting shots, or do you want to talk about how just kind of coincidentally, we each went to a World cup match since we've last hosted a show together? Yeah, I had the awesome opportunity of going to the Brazil Japan knockout game, which was amazing. It was just so amazing. Shout out to all of the facilities there that the Houston Texans stadium provided just amazing atmosphere. Amazing game. When Brazil scored the. The goal, to put it 1:1, the guy in front of me literally just started bursting into tears. Like, I was like, this guy cares more about this soccer game than I care about most things. And, yeah, it's insane. Like, I think the only thing I've ever burst into tears for was, like, when my daughter got married. I mean, when my daughter was born. And then when I got married and. And this guy was like, it's one one, you know, And I was amazing. I love it. And then you got to go see a team that will go down in history. Yeah, I got. I went to Atlanta and I took. I took my son Max. He really wanted to go see Spain play. We actually, we were. The. The way that this happened is he Spain practiced in Chattanooga, which is like three hours away from us, maybe a little less anyway, and he. We tried to get. We got in the lottery to Try to get like tickets to the open practice. And we didn't win because the odds are like, ridiculous. They practiced it like a high school with like, no, like, barely any. Probably 500 people won the lottery. And I'm sure 50,000, a hundred thousand people tried to, you know, enter the lottery. So we didn't get to the open practice. Well, Max ended up like coming up with this like Ocean's 11 type elaborate plan to sneak into the open practice with a friend of his. Well, my wife and I said, let's, let's not do that. Why don't we, why don't we look at just actually going to the game against Cabo Verde? So he and I bought tickets, we. We made the trip to Atlanta. And I love that Max is like this open. Oceans 11 in Spain is his team because he grew up in, you know, we, like, we lived in Spain when he was growing up. So he grew up in Spain. So that's his team. And they're currently tied to zero. Portugal. Yeah. They're in the 77th minute right now, so I'm sure. Watch the other room. Yeah. So all of Cabo Verde was at the game, the entire country, every one of them, for the whole thing. 0, 0 tie. But that would, that was the game where, you know, the, the goalie went from like maybe 40,000 Instagram followers to like 17 million or something like that. And so obviously everybody knows the story now of their, their Cinderella run in the World cup. But super. At the time, Max was really upset that it ended in the 00 tie. But now he's looking back on it going, this. That was one of the best games ever. Yeah, pretty cool. Yeah. And there's a huge game tonight against Belgium where our, our team is going to go up against Belgium and just waffle the Belgian waffles. And how about our. How about our guy Malik Tillman scoring in the last match? I mean, as soon as he, as soon as he scored, Crim texted me and he was just like, your guy scored. But five years later, yes, Crim nailed it. Like any sports card strategy show Die Hard from five years ago. Four or five years ago, like Chase Crim. Yeah. Would remember Lefty and I talked a lot about Malik Tillman. A lot about Malik. We bought Malik Tillman cards. And I mean, man, if I would have still had my 40$, yeah, Bundesliga rookie auto or whatever the hell it was. All I need now is for Xavi Simons to become somebody in the next 10 years and I will be even vindicated. There you go. So But I mean, like, watching Spain and seeing like, Jeremy Pino, that was a guy that we talked about all the time. We did. Yeah. Like, of course you got, you know, Gavi and you. Of course you've got three. Was my guy. Yeah. Ansu Fati was your guy. I loved Ansu Fati. I was so. I mean, we could do a whole episode about how horrible I was at making decisions when I first re. Entered the hobby. Yeah. And Ansu Fati pretty much sums it all up. Yeah. If you guys don't know, just go. Just Google on Su Fati. Ansu Fati. Mega Cracks 2019 used to sell for a lot of money and now he's like in a semi pro soccer league somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I think it's. Is he in America? Max told me where he's playing. Ansu Fati is liguno Monaco. Oh, Monaco is a good team. There we go. So he's. He was a. I mean, he was on the Spanish national team in the. Monaco is actually the same team that Baligan is on, which is the striker that everybody's talking about for the United States men's national team. Ansumane. Ansu Fati Vieira is a professional footballer who plays as a forwarder winger for Liga 1 club Monaco. Guy loved him. Love it. I mean, he was Lamina Mall before Lamina Mall. Well, he was your Lamina. Your. He was your Lamina Mall. He was. Yeah, he. I. I wouldn't say he was Lamine, but he. He was yours. He was on track to become Lamine Yamal True mini score. He had a hat trick in his first ever game. And that's something at age like 16. All right, you suck. I'm gonna. Yusufa Mokoko was another one that was like, crazy good. But now that dude is nowhere, so. Okay, man, go watch the Spain. Who's going to win the World Cup? I really honestly believe that it's going to be England. Really? I think it's coming home. I think that is. That's what they've been saying. And I think they have a chance to do what they did last night in azteca. Down to 10 men against Mexico. I know people are like, oh, it's a Mexican team. Like, people from Europe will be like, they should have hammered them. Dude, you don't go that high altitude in Azteca in Mexico and beat Mexico. You just don't. And they did it with 10 men. All right, Lefty says go buy Harry Kane cards. And Jude. Jude Bellingham Inglatera is going to win it all. Copa Mundial. All right, everybody, we'll see you soon. Thanks for being here with us on the Sports Card Strategy Show. Lefty, great work today, man. Thanks, sir. Thanks so much for being here with us on the Sports Card Strategy Show. If you enjoyed the content on today's show, there's plenty more waiting for you at no offseason. Just go to no offseason.com right now. You get our formula based sports card rankings, sports card school inventory tracker, the ability to grade with us, and the premium podcast where we answer an unlimited amount of your questions. Check it out right now@nooffseason.com for everyone@nooffseason.com I'm Paul Hickey. Thanks again for being here with us on the Sports Card Strategy Show. We'll see you again soon. Have a great day.