Tomorrow, on Thursday 11/11/21 at 1pm EST / 10am PST, we are dropping our first Kaboom! ever.

As you probably know, the NBA has come out with a list featuring the 75 greatest players in NBA history, as part of its 75th anniversary celebration.

The beauty of the NFL season is that every weekend brings on new, exciting story lines. When the MLB playoffs near, that excitement grows.

We’re back with another edition of Winners and Losers. Some of the faces are the same, and some are new. Many have seen significant price action. And one thing has remained constant: winning counts, especially during the playoffs.

Card prices changing with player performance is nothing new. We saw it firsthand during last year’s playoffs. Collectors are tuned in, and are clearly buying and selling based on what happens on the court.

Year after year, the NFL draft feels like somewhat of a crap shoot. In fact, in just looking at the first quarterback off the board in the last several drafts, it becomes obvious that drafting is an inexact science.

“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.