2020: The Year in Flips
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Short of SDS dropping 5 more Million-Stub event rewards, I've probably made all the money I'm going to for 2020. Here's my year-end analytics (as of 8 am CST 12/30/2020 AD):
Total Stubs Invested: 95,820,508
Gross Stubs Earned: 131.947.328
Net Stubs Earned: 22,938,437Stubs Remaining: 3,195,074
Purchasable Cards I Don't Own (Yet):
Signature Verlander
Run It Back Aparicio (will earn for free)
Run It Back Spahn (will earn for free)Non-Prestige Cards I Don't Own:
Longoria/Hoffman/Seaver/Ruth from Signature Teams (my goal for the next 3 months)
Yelich/Pearson/Gehrig from ExtremeNumber of Buy Transactions (for flipping purposes): 9,825
Number of Sales Transactions: 16,632
Pages of Transactions: 2,571Most Profitable Days:
- 12/22: 427,290
- 10/10: 342,613
- 11/24: 321,264
Most Profitable Cards:
1*. Live Trout: 524439 (pulling him 3 times and selling him isn't a true flip, but numbers are numbers.)
2. Prime Sandoval: 401,491
3. All-Star Cabrera: 396,859
4. Veteran Nen: 362,726
5. Future Star Pache: 338,806
6. Future Star Sanchez: 337,757
7. Awards Molina: 310,773
8. Postseason Bench: 294,804
9. Signature Snider: 293,835
10. Future Star Carlson: 285,974Most Profitable Non-Players:
- Diamond Jordan Sponsorship: 103,190
- Ritual Well Kept Secret: 71,513
- Ritual Legend in a Cleat: 65,598
- Bat Posey28 Maple: 65,440
- Ritual The History of Topps: 64,031
Most Times Flipped:
- Shibe Park: 211
- Metrodome: 198
- Griffith: 193
- Sportsmans Park: 189
- The Ballpark in Arlington: 187
- Pro Player Stadium: 186
- Forbes: 185
- The Ted: 185
- Old Yankee: 194
- Crosley: 177
- Shea: 170
- All-Star Cabrera: 130
- Diamond Jordan Sponsorship: 123
- Ritual Well Kept Secret: 115
- Veteran Robb Nen: 101
- Ritual Glove Guardian: 99
Highest Average Per Flip (not including cards pulled/acquired for free)
- Postseason Edgar: 94,410
- All-Star Dwight Evans: 41,038
- Awards Manny Machado: 31,129
- Breakout Andrew Miller: 28,780
Best Flips of the Year (not including cards pulled/acquired for free):
- Postseason Edgar: 94,410
2 Awards Machado: 61,217 - Finest Hader: 61,044
- All-Star Evans: 41.038
- Prospect Adell: 32,855
All 7 Flips that Ended Horribly:
- Topps Now Dickerson: (Bought 11,091, Sold 11,890, Loss of -390)
- Prospect Brendan Rodgers (Bought 6276, Sold 6580, Loss of -354)
- Topps Now Brad Miller (Bought 10201, Sold 10990, Loss of -310)
- Rookie Hershiser (Bought 1892, Sold 1888, Loss of -193)
- Pro Player Stadium (Bought 1269, Sold 1330, Loss of -72)
- Bat PS 27:1 Select Ash (Bought 2921, Sold 3190, Loss of -50)
- Glove MVP Select (Bought 553, Sold 590, Loss of -22)
Most Expensive Investments:
- 8/7 Awards Machado: 233,301 (Sold for 259.990 for a profit of 690(!))
- 8/20 Awards Machado: 199.774 (Sold for 289,990 for a profit of 61,217)
- 7/31 Awards Carter: 185670 (Sold for 235970 for a profit of 26,703)
Biggest Waste of a Flip:
- Prime Kemp (Bought 28780, Sold 31980, Profit of 2)
- FOTF Matt Williams (Bought 24,152, Sold 26840, Profit of 4)
- Players League Happ (Bought 12810 Sold 14240, Profit of 6)
Chime in with any other categories you'd like to know or add your own flipping tales of wonder/horror stories.
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I just want to know how you keep track of this stuff?
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I mean this in the best possible way. You're ******* insane for keeping track of all this stuff. I think I would go crazy trying to keep track of all of my own market activity, but it's super interesting to look at so thanks for sharing. I think what's most surprising to me is seeing all of those stadiums up there in the most times flipped. Were they really profitable earlier in the year?
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