If unfamiliar, an order book might just look like a complicated set of red and green numbers. Intuitively, we all understand that green means go (BUY), and red means stop (SELL). But what is actually going on in the order book?

“I would be the best GM what is this guy doing!?” At one point or another, we’ve all heard this before. Would you really be a great GM though? Now, you can answer that question.

The sports card market is growing at a breakneck pace, with many cards trading at all time highs and trade volumes rocketing past previous records.  Sports cards continue to shatter growth records, despite the market being slowed by archaic technology, processes and extremely high price points. The value of the most popular cards today ranges from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars and above. Compound these high cost barriers to entry with exorbitant fees and shipping time/costs on sites like eBay, and you have a market that is inaccessible to most sports fans and collectors.

Before diving into the 2020 draft, let’s take a look back at the 2019 draft to help guide us. The 2019 draft, both at the time and in retrospect, is fascinating. Draft experts were extremely high on the top 3 in this draft, but down on the next tier of players. Zion Williamson, the biggest prize of the draft, came in with an amount of fanfare we have not really seen since Lebron James got drafted. Add Social Media to the equation and it makes for an extremely unique situation. That he had millions of followers upon entering the league, coupled with the fact that he looked like a generational athlete is why the original value on his Prizm Silver BGS 9.5 card was 1,056.25. At peak value, on August 1st, the card was valued at $2,720.00, and was last sold at $1,625.00.