{ Free Price Guide for Your Collectible Trading Cards }
Sports & Statistics. An ever popular combination, applied to appraising trading card & collectible values .
- “All Other” Trading Cards {Pokemon; Magic; Tennis; PGA + }
- Baseball Cards Price Guide {MLB; Topps + }
- Basketball Cards {NBA; Panini + }
- Football Cards {NFL; Panini + }
- Hockey Cards {NHL; Upper Deck + }
Above you may find current estimates. Please keep in mind these estimates are constantly evolving and expanding, as more data comes in to feed the statistical models.
What are my trading cards and sports cards worth? At SCV, we want to share our best estimate with you… we cover NBA Basketball cards, NHL Hockey cards, MBL Baseball cards and NFL Football cards — plus a whole lot more, PGA Golf, Bundesliga and Premier League Soccer; never mind our estimated values for non-sport/gaming trading cards like Magic, Pokemon, Marvel, etc.
Here, we offer a sports card price guide (plus, a supplementary gaming cards price guide) to estimate the value of your collectible trading cards. Our main guide bases prices on ungraded cards, but we have a complimentary graded trading cards price guide as well. Even if you aren’t into the hobby quite yet, you can tide over your curiosity about what sorts of cards are the most valuable.
Here at SportsCardValues, we seek to find the true market values of sports cards & collectables. This means two things: first, the models use something pretty wicked call “inference,” which lets us predict the prices of trading cards even if a particular card hasn’t sold recently. First, this means making assumptions to estimate price points; as such, users should always check our estimates against other sources. Second, this means chasing down data based on auction prices — rather than asking prices. We use actual market data — rather than expert estimates, which can be prone to bias — in order to inform statistical models.
Making Price Estimates for Trading Cards
Our models are also meant to be transparent. We share the modeling assumptions in the blog section of this website. We also encourage you to be critical of what you see. Please check out our statistical model’s estimates and pit those estimates against your own instinct. Our data exists for you to explore.
Our models are also meant to be built upon reliable data sources: we exercise strict control over the creation of market value data. It may seem obvious, but is often ignored…
A market price needs to reflect what someone is actually willing to pay for an item; we use the nearest thing we can to a “gold standard” method, by drawing upon auction results from a limited set of sellers (such that seller reputation does not introduce variance into the results) and, particularly, we focus on sellers that intitiate their auctions with low starting values. You can read a little about our data collection methods in our blog postings. (If you’re sufficiently nerdy to be into that sorta thing — as we are.)
A market price needs to reflect what someone is actually willing to pay for an item
Just watching any given eBay auction, or looking at “listing” prices in stores (whether brick-and-mortar, e-commerce, or otherwise) can be grossly misleading. Nothing stops a seller from asking whatever they want. (They just aren’t gonna get it.) Nothing stops a seller from using really high shipping rates (which might make a card’s value look lower than it actually is). At sportcardvalues.com, we are doing our outmost to figure-out the prices at which cards actually exchange hands.
An Evolving Price Guide for Collectibles
With the data we produce through tracking eBay sales of major consigners, we punch this input into statistical models to predict the values of a wide variety of cards based on characteristics of likeness: a card’s rarity, team, player; its series & the year it was produced. Take a look, and judge for yourself. In many cases, our models may be off right now, but are largely self-correcting: as more data comes in, the prices reflect less an imputation and more a cataloguing of average realized prices in the marketplace. In many other cases, however, we must humble ourselves: share with us what strikes you as off, and we will explore what our current model is missing. Comments sections exist on all the blogging pages.
… a Guide made for all to use… & for all to use for free…
Happy collecting,
SportsCardsValues. . . {dot com}