As I arrived at the 2014 National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland, I was overwhelmed with excitement. It was my first show and I was there extra early, waiting in line for the gates to open on Preview Day. At the time, I strictly collected football cards. I had my Eddie Lacy 2013 Topps Chrome
Everyone likes a tooled-up player. Everyone wants their team to draft tooled-up players they can dream on. Sometimes, your team drafts a player way over slot, and he decides to play football instead (looking at you, Kyler Murray). Sometimes your team drafts a tooled-up player, and he never develops. Sometimes your team drafts a tooled-up
Over the last couple of days, I have received an overwhelming amount of support from SlabStox followers on multiple different platforms. I want to thank all of you for reading our analysis and viewing our graphs on Instagram. We got a lot of good feedback that will be used in future content. If you do
You’re searching eBay and see a listing for a 2018 Bowman Chrome Jarred Kelenic Gold Refractor Autograph /50, but there are no recent completed sales to base your purchase off of. What do you do now? For all the data I synthesize to create the Bowman Draft StoxValues, I thought it would be extremely useful
Going into this project at the beginning of January, I felt confident in the ability to show what Bowman Chrome autographs *should* be selling for. While I am not discrediting my work, it is starting to make me ask more questions. The total average present value of the 2017 Bowman Draft hitters (excluding Jo Adell,
It is a mainstream opinion that investing in pitchers is a bad idea. Some investors will not even touch a Bowman Chrome autograph of a pitcher. This had me wanting to address this topic with hard evidence. True or False: Investing in pitchers is an inferior investment. To prove Dwight’s statement, I will provide hard
After two weeks of data mining (big shoutout to one of my business partners, also known as my mother), the 2018 Bowman Draft pitcher StoxValues is here. While building the model for pitchers, I knew from the start it was going to be much harder to predict than the hitters. Since organizations like to hold
StoxValues v.2 is here. Today’s values come with a bigger implication: an investment implication. By releasing this in early January, you will have enough time to make investment decisions based on these results. My recommendation is to use the values to get an idea of possible future value, and then do further research to come