July Flipping Memories...

[SaveFarris_PSN]

For and giggles, I'd figure I'd take a stroll down memory lane and look and see how much my flip game has evolved in the past 4 years.

(For the purposes of this exercise, I'm counting anything sold out of inventory [duplicates, pack pulls, postgame rewards, etc] towards flip totals, but I am NOT counting them towards best/worst flips since the acquisition price of 0 isn't a fair comparison)

July 2017:
Total Earned in Flipping: 485,190
Total Flips: 590
Avg per Flip: 822
Best Day: July 1st (35,537)
Best Flips:

• Mother's Day Cleat UA Heater Mid ST (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=25170)
  Bought: 4110
  Sold: 7690
  Profit: 2811
• Veteran Lucas Duda (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=23489)
  Bought: 3510
  Sold: 6990
  Profit: 2781

Worst Flip:

• Veteran Jon Danks (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=25157)
  Bought: 6065
  Sold: 6690
  Profit: 1

Flipped most often:

• Mother's Day Fielding Glove 125 (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=25172)
  29 times for an average of 1018 per flip

July 2018:

My 2018 strategy was WAY different than other years because of Immortals. To get the best cards in the game, you had to exchange souvenirs pulled from packs. But buying them off the market was a major pain. So I devised a system:
A. Buy a diamond bobblehead for around 600
B. Exchange it for a pack of 5 silver jerseys
C. Take out any jerseys for the Immortal I was collecting at the moment (Example: Dodger jerseys for Jackie)
D. Sell the Remaining Jerseys for profit
E. For accounting purposes, I counted all this as 1 transation even though it was up to 6.
F. Repeat the process anywhere between 40 and 70 times a day.
G. Given that transactions were limited to 20 at a time, this was ... fun?!? exhausting?!? But totally worth it in the end because while everyone else was griping about Immortals being behind a "paywall", I was actually making money on the process.

Total Earned in Flipping: 579,872
Total Flips: 1528
Avg per Flip: 379
Best Day: July 14th (93,582) (Included selling Diamond Goldschmidt)
Best Flips: not really applicable
Worst Flip: not really applicable
Flipped most often: not really applicable

July 2019:
Total Earned in Flipping: 770,383
Total Flips: 1491
Avg per Flip: 516
Best Day: July 25th (47,626)
Best Flips:

• POTM Brandon Woodruff (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/37118c121824759cf027a6cd8ded09f6)
  Bought: 20021
  Sold: 28880
  Profit: 5971
• Hardware Don Mattingly (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/af333fe43dbd4810c1012f0cce029bde)
  Bought: 14511
  Sold: 22090
  Profit: 5370

Worst Flip:

• Rookie Jonny Venters (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/9abda75ca5019e7a3f16e0e781db2647)
  Bought: 2454
  Sold: 2580
  Profit: -132 (Typed in the Sale Price before double checking the buy price to make sure I'd break even and the sale went through before I realized my mistake. Happens 3-5 times a year)

Flipped most often:

• Rookie Clayton Kershaw (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/25613c7a1d894d7b9334667470805aeb)
  53 times for an average of 134 per flip

July 2020 (so far):
Total Earned in Flipping: 1,467,550
Total Flips: 1171
Avg per Flip: 1253
Best Day: July 11th (91,224) no one reason, just a lot of solid flips that day
Best Flips:

• Prospect Jo Adell (https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/4d42b846d4cb82f316fe8ae26f311d98)
  Bought: 48100
  Sold: 89950
  Profit: 32855 (I actually bought this in mid-June or so right before a market crater only to finally resell it this past week in the pre-Trout frenzy)
• Awards Manny Machado (https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/4dbccb7943944f9e433288413ca88828)
  Bought: 170552
  Sold: 224480
  Profit: 31480 (I actually wasn't expecting this to go through and was pleasantly surprised when it did.)

Worst Flip:

• Postseason Bill Mazeroski (https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/6a12f708b55e1bfdd870fc3ed6292b1b)
  Bought: 5857
  Sold: 6510
  Profit:... 2

Flipped most often:

• Once again, our friend Bill
  49 times for an average of 910 per flip

[jz2016cubs_PSN]

@SaveFarris said in July Flipping Memories...:

For and giggles, I'd figure I'd take a stroll down memory lane and look and see how much my flip game has evolved in the past 4 years.

(For the purposes of this exercise, I'm counting anything sold out of inventory [duplicates, pack pulls, postgame rewards, etc] towards flip totals, but I am NOT counting them towards best/worst flips since the acquisition price of 0 isn't a fair comparison)

July 2017:
Total Earned in Flipping: 485,190
Total Flips: 590
Avg per Flip: 822
Best Day: July 1st (35,537)
Best Flips:

• Mother's Day Cleat UA Heater Mid ST (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=25170)
  Bought: 4110
  Sold: 7690
  Profit: 2811
• Veteran Lucas Duda (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=23489)
  Bought: 3510
  Sold: 6990
  Profit: 2781

Worst Flip:

• Veteran Jon Danks (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=25157)
  Bought: 6065
  Sold: 6690
  Profit: 1

Flipped most often:

• Mother's Day Fielding Glove 125 (https://mlb17.theshownation.com/marketplace/listing?item_ref_id=25172)
  29 times for an average of 1018 per flip

July 2018:

My 2018 strategy was WAY different than other years because of Immortals. To get the best cards in the game, you had to exchange souvenirs pulled from packs. But buying them off the market was a major pain. So I devised a system:
A. Buy a diamond bobblehead for around 600
B. Exchange it for a pack of 5 silver jerseys
C. Take out any jerseys for the Immortal I was collecting at the moment (Example: Dodger jerseys for Jackie)
D. Sell the Remaining Jerseys for profit
E. For accounting purposes, I counted all this as 1 transation even though it was up to 6.
F. Repeat the process anywhere between 40 and 70 times a day.
G. Given that transactions were limited to 20 at a time, this was ... fun?!? exhausting?!? But totally worth it in the end because while everyone else was griping about Immortals being behind a "paywall", I was actually making money on the process.

Total Earned in Flipping: 579,872
Total Flips: 1528
Avg per Flip: 379
Best Day: July 14th (93,582) (Included selling Diamond Goldschmidt)
Best Flips: not really applicable
Worst Flip: not really applicable
Flipped most often: not really applicable

July 2019:
Total Earned in Flipping: 770,383
Total Flips: 1491
Avg per Flip: 516
Best Day: July 25th (47,626)
Best Flips:

• POTM Brandon Woodruff (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/37118c121824759cf027a6cd8ded09f6)
  Bought: 20021
  Sold: 28880
  Profit: 5971
• Hardware Don Mattingly (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/af333fe43dbd4810c1012f0cce029bde)
  Bought: 14511
  Sold: 22090
  Profit: 5370

Worst Flip:

• Rookie Jonny Venters (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/9abda75ca5019e7a3f16e0e781db2647)
  Bought: 2454
  Sold: 2580
  Profit: -132 (Typed in the Sale Price before double checking the buy price to make sure I'd break even and the sale went through before I realized my mistake. Happens 3-5 times a year)

Flipped most often:

• Rookie Clayton Kershaw (https://mlb19.theshownation.com/community_market/listings/25613c7a1d894d7b9334667470805aeb)
  53 times for an average of 134 per flip

July 2020 (so far):
Total Earned in Flipping: 1,467,550
Total Flips: 1171
Avg per Flip: 1253
Best Day: July 11th (91,224) no one reason, just a lot of solid flips that day
Best Flips:

• Prospect Jo Adell (https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/4d42b846d4cb82f316fe8ae26f311d98)
  Bought: 48100
  Sold: 89950
  Profit: 32855 (I actually bought this in mid-June or so right before a market crater only to finally resell it this past week in the pre-Trout frenzy)
• Awards Manny Machado (https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/4dbccb7943944f9e433288413ca88828)
  Bought: 170552
  Sold: 224480
  Profit: 31480 (I actually wasn't expecting this to go through and was pleasantly surprised when it did.)

Worst Flip:

• Postseason Bill Mazeroski (https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/6a12f708b55e1bfdd870fc3ed6292b1b)
  Bought: 5857
  Sold: 6510
  Profit:... 2

Flipped most often:

• Once again, our friend Bill
  49 times for an average of 910 per flip

I wish I could come CLOSE to this in profit.

[RICH_chocolate52]

This is solid growth year over year. Flipping is grind but in my first year of DD i'm seeing the benefits and in some ways enjoy watching the market more than getting frustrated with losing a showdown in the game. Out of curiosity, how did you aggregate this data? Did you have to manually input into a spreadsheet or were you able to export this from this site somehow?

[SaveFarris_PSN]

When I started playing DD back in 16, I used a Google sheet mainly to keep track of...

• Card Inventory (who I had collected, who I still needed)
• Buy/Sell prices (so I could confirm I was making profit after tax)

Since then, I've expanded it to include lots of metadata on each card (type, how acquired, when released/acquired), PostGame/XP/Login Rewards to track odds, sales logs and Game Logs.

Some of it is cut/paste from the website, most is manual data input.

[arvcpa_PSN]

@SaveFarris said in July Flipping Memories...:

For and giggles

As a fellow numbers geek, this is the best post in the history of MLB the Show.