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weekly
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27 minutes
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Amerika Serikat
72 episode
sejak 29 Mei 2025
episodic

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Thinking about grading cards? Start here. After 1,500+ submissions across PSA, Beckett, SGC, and CGC, I break down what each grader actually costs, how long it really takes, where each one wins, where each one fails, and the part almost nobody covers: how each grader turns subgrades into the number…

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1996 Topps Chrome Football is the inaugural set of the most important modern chrome brand, and the market still has not priced it correctly. In the first Slabnomics set deep dive, we go through the full history: why Topps needed an innovation after junk wax fatigue, how 1993 Topps Finest set up the…
Two data-backed frameworks for buying cards in 2026. First: the psychological barrier learned from 800+ cards. Only one pattern held with strong correlation. Anchoring, cascading demand, and pop-vs-price gaps explain why.  Second: the generational window. Pokémon proves demand is predictable. Map a…
The sports card market is up big. Disney is up 5x in six months. Pokemon volume is at all time highs. So the question everyone is asking: how much longer? Let's talk dry powder. The rotation from modern into vintage. The speculative tells in sealed wax, breaks, and repackers.  And the biggest …
 9 grading mistakes killing your sports card and Pokémon profits broken down by skill level.  Matt covers PSA's new 50–70 business day turnaround at the $80 tier, why Beckett only bumps a certain amount off the average, how PSA actually grades, and why annualized ROI matters more than raw marg…
Five of the most graded cards in history. Every grade from every grader. The data says a PSA 10 is easier to obtain than most competing top grades, and the market pays for it anyway. Cards analyzed: 2023 Van Gogh Pikachu, 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie, 1990 Fleer Michael Jordan, 1986 Topps…
Grading built this market. Grading is now changing again. This episode traces card grading from the 1990s, when buyers and sellers eyeballed condition and negotiated it live, through the trust-building years of the mid 2010s, into the COVID volume surge that turned grading into the backbone of an a…
The bull run is roughly a year and a half old. People are getting nervous. Matt takes the temperature three ways: Fanatics Fest, the National, and the SoCo Expo. Three different reads on the same hobby. Covered in this episode: Loss aversion and the psychology behind selling Why the COVID compariso…
The hobby is loud. Buzz, hype, panic...and it all sounds the same until you learn which frequencies matter. Fresh off Fanatics Fest and headed to The National in Chicago, Matt breaks down what he saw on the floor and what it says about where the sports card and tcg markets are going.  Then it'…
What do 18 years of fantasy football tell us about sports cards markets? This episode maps the five phases of dynasty fantasy football onto sports card and TCG investing.  The core argument: most people think you win in the accumulation phase. You don't. You win in the two phases before it, an…
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