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Slabnomics

Matt

Finance-Bro turned Card Bird explores the intersection of collecting, investment, and market theory for sports cards.

Think Financial Analyst meets Sports Card Collector.

New Episodes drop Tuesdays @ 7 AM CST.

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71 episodes

  1. Is It Worth Grading Sports Cards & TCG? PSA vs CGC vs Beckett Explained 30:01
  2. Slabnomics Set Deep Dive: 1996 Topps Chrome Football 21:44
  3. Past Results and Predicting Future Returns in Cards 19:51
  4. Swimming Naked: Early Warning Signs in the 2026 Card Market 21:19
  5. Grading Mistakes in Cards: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced 17:56
  6. PSA vs BGS vs CGC vs SGC vs TAG: Who Actually Grades Hardest 23:06
  7. The $80 Floor: What Happens When Bulk Card Grading Dies 27:08
  8. Does This Bull Market Have Legs? (Fanatics Fest/National/Soco) 15:19
  9. The Pokemon Pullback and Putrid Pulisic Performance (World Cup) 20:58
  10. 18 Years of Fantasy Football Taught Me How to Buy Cards 21:03
  11. Wait, Do PSA 9s Have Better ROI Than PSA 10s?!? 19:38
  12. I Ran a 15-Month Soccer Card Fund. Here's What Actually Worked. 20:35
  13. Parallels, Graders, and How PSA's Submission Pause Might Affect the Market 18:25
  14. All 63 Wemby Rookie Prizm Cards Ranked by Return 34:07
  15. Only 4 of These 1952 Topps Legends Beat the S&P 500 15:57
  16. PSA: The Federal Reserve of The Hobby 17:01
  17. Mangos, Messi, and Market Cap: The Hidden Math of Card Prices 28:50
  18. Don't Buy New Card Releases! 15:10
  19. Modern Cards Are Overvalued (Value vs. Growth) 30:09
  20. How To Read the Card Market Like a Wall Street Analyst 26:08
  21. The Process I Use to Find Undervalued Cards (And the 4-Month Hunt I Walked Away From) 28:36
  22. Why You See "Buying, 80%" (And What to Do About It) 23:18
  23. The Discoverable Market: Why Cards Aren't Like Stocks 27:05
  24. Negotiation and How to Get Leverage in Sports Cards 20:13
  25. Diving into Liquidity: 3 Types and How To Exit the Pool 13:58
  26. Financial Inertia: What Breaks the Card Market 22:44
  27. Becoming the Card Show Oracle 14:45
  28. Return of the King: Topps Chrome 21:53
  29. Sports Card Sets: Top 1% Controls 99% of Value 23:26
  30. I Found The Most Undervalued Cards in the Hobby 13:39
  31. Meta-tagging 311 Sales: Lessons My Sports Card Portfolio Taught Me 27:09
  32. Prizm Comparison Across Sports 17:31
  33. Player Archetypes and Valuation 20:45
  34. Why Your Cards Sell for Less (Auction vs BIN Breakdown) 22:17
  35. PSA 9 is Dead. All Hail Gem Mint 10 24:23
  36. A Rising Tide Does NOT Lift All Cards 27:36
  37. Why Billionaires Are Buying Cards (And What It Means for You) 31:06
  38. PSA Buys Beckett/The Importance of Sets and Cycles 16:08
  39. The Future of Sports Cards: Data, AI & Discovery Ft. Tyler ‘TPott’ Nethercott 1:01:48
  40. Time is Money in Sports Cards 33:48
  41. 1 Year of Selling Sports Cards: Grading (Final Part) 27:51
  42. 1 Year of Selling Sports Cards: Selling (Part 2) 31:37
  43. 1 Year of Selling Sports Cards: Buying (Part 1) 29:59
  44. The Barcelona Messi Rookie Treasure Hunt 45:58
  45. Why This World Cup is Different Ft. SACC Cards 44:36
  46. How Top Sellers Win in Sports Cards Ft. Trike Cards 40:22
  47. Liquidity 101: When To Get Out of Sports Cards 12:59
  48. How to Understand Changing Markets Ft. Ryan Alford 31:50
  49. 🚨Huge New Comp, Bubbles, and a Cheatsheet on 2014 Prizm Pricing 37:11
  50. Creating Hobby Content: Behind the Scenes Ft. Stockn_trade 33:37