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I appreciated the humor, sermon, and instruction.

Recommend to listen to the BYU devotional if you haven’t yet.

Im still trying to get a card of a kicker that’s been in the league for 3 seasons now, and no card.

one guy I had to wait 6 seasons before the DT popped up in a set.

Beautiful cards. Base circulation of about 2000.

A box of 7 costs $300-$500.

And then people are selling Anthony Edward’s for $7, Jeremiah Fears RC for $4, Egor Demin RC for $7.

How are singles for this so low?

my guess is fewer than 5% of collectors receive a positive ROI on their total collecting.

It was available for at least 36 hours. Looks like the test worked. Topps go it’s product sold and the bubble got cooled a little with this strategy.

Im going to try to buy a couple today. Please dont buy mine.

It seems kind of weird that Topps can own the NBA, NFL, and MLB cards exclusively . I read the deal with the NFL is 20 years. Is hoops that long?

https://x.com/Topps/status/2069047643674735014?s=20

I like it, better but not perfect.

Do people really like this set?

I’m interested to see the impact of the draft on bowman singles and if any of the prices go up for the top picks. This year is supposed to be a talented class, might be the cheapest that some cards will be for most that get drafted. A lot of other cards are about to lose general value except for fans of that college.

Newer to the hobby after having fun as a kid. I looked through my old cards as a kid. I sold most of my good mid to late 80s cards for comic book money as I grew up. I have tons of junk wax that’s fun to remember. Turns out my most expensive card I still had was a Denis Rodman one which I didn’t expect. Started reading up on card collecting now and started to dabble.

Its a Fun activity to do with one of my kids now and fun to be able to afford the real hobby and kind of spectate on the new card casino type behaviors. I focus mostly on NBA and NFL which I enjoy the most after college sports. I don’t see a ton of value for me owning a card worth over 50 bucks unless the player means a lot to me. I get why some cards are super expensive but Id rather spend my big bucks on travel or invest in index funds. Also I’m lucky to care about players that most others dont. It’s kind of weird to me how folks still love Jordan, I know he’s the GOAT but there are like more of his cards out there than citizens in the US.

It’s fun to open things up and explore a little bit of a lottery vibe now. Some of these folks have to be getting loaded packs and are marketers and hustlers. IRL the entertainment of opening packs is brought back to the ground when you realize you are paying for the entertainment but arent likely going to get something amazing. I find myself watching people open on YouTube which is nerdy but helpful in seeing if I’m interested in a new release.

I have seen how infrequent numbered cards are in retail. Ive spent about $700 on this or that and have gotten like 7-10 numbered cards- a couple /99 and an auto of some random. I’m still planning on opening some flagship and Chrome when the next falls sets start releasing. I don’t get why Topps does like seven sets of cards with the same picture. And how long can we feel like getting a Cooper Flagg rookie is special? Like how many colors or designs around the same picture do accept before we realize the collecting is fun but the value won’t last?

I started looking up older stuff from 2000-2020 and was surprised you can get a lot of /99 on future Hall of Famers for under ten bucks. I’m not really into Kobe or Brady or baseball or whatever but it’s amazing to me the big stars of a decade ago like Harden or Durant most people don’t care about anymore. And old NFL stuff is cheap too. I think we often fool ourself into thinking a card is like a stock but most stuff seems to lag inflation if you are patient for cards from the non top 5 all timers.

I Decided to collect every player that went pro from university I cheer for and have about 70 cards mostly autos and numbers or their rookies that I got for about $600 total. I’m not sure how I feel about retired players being in current card sets if I’m interested unless there is something really cool about it. I might buy a few more singles this summer I want for the black binder I look at when I’m bored in the offseason. Debating if I want Sapphire singles.

Anyway that’s my experience being back curious to see what you’ve learned in your time with the hobby.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1453099606862762&id=100064882082983

A FB recorded athletic and school leadership roundtable on the whole gambler QB ruling.

1. They are getting behind the only Texas Tech cares for the student, be empathetic because he has a diagnosis argument.

2. They want us to know the QBs phone is being tracked and monitored by the school to stop him from gambling. Discussed twice.

3. Will this crisis management communication approach work? As a non Tech guy this seemed really weird, like uncomfortable as a round table.

I like that Topps releases checklists and odds but is there any way to know the total number of numbered cards a player has?
Trying to quantify this and think what is a good value for an AJ card and it started out easy with Bowman U…

9 Bowman U Now: 116 numbered times: 1,044 total cards

Then comes McDonald’s: 1 base card, 9 Inserts or other cards on the checklist before variants considered.  Unclear numbering. This could be anything from like 500-2000 from this set?

Now add Bowman Basketball Base, Chrome, a few variants on the first release, Megas add more variants and a signature series coming. I saw a $130 /499 AJ selling on eBay. No way to get at this really but is it possible for this set to get close to 7k numbered AJs?

His first draft pick will add another 250-300 numbered cards.

So let’s say speculatively at this point there are 10k numbered AJs cards. And this doesn’t include rarer unnumbered cards.

Next season with all tops releases could he get into 100k numbered/lower than 1k run cards total?

You could do an exercise with Cooper Flagg. Is he at 100k numbered/unique cards? Or Jaxon Darts. With Panini and Topps will this year be seen as a junk wax numbering year?

All this isn’t fully transparent but the secret of numbered cards is it sells scarcity. Just wondering if the hobby can keep up with expanding numbers? Stuff’s flying off shelves and going for a lot on eBay. But beanie babies were a thing too. What are your thoughts on the supply of numbered cards?

I’m not seeing a price on it anywhere or it listed. just Mega and Value for retail. Anyone have more information?

Did he finally get one?