Balls, Bulls, Bears!

Once again, a list of bowman chrome refractors that are heating up or staying hot. It appears as though there was an error in a Storen listing, but other than that everything looks good:
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Same deal, start of July, except this time it’s for up-and-comers. These guys have had their first year chrome refractors sell between 5 and 10 dollars on eBay, which when you factor in the shipping gives you around a 10-15 dollar card. On this list, there are plenty of ballplayers that have a first year chrome and a second year chrome autograph. I still favour the first year chrome but obviously the second year autograph sells quite a bit better. , , , , and all fall into this category.
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Bowman Chrome Refractors That’ve Sold For More Than Twenty Dollars Since The Start Of July.

It’s an interest list with only a few surprises: is getting all sorts of love since his Baseball America mid-season re-ranking and continues his ascent.

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Here’s a raw data-dump. The final column is the number of occurrences divided by the current price of a blue-status die-cut autograph from 2009 Donruss EEE.

The database behind the prospect tool has grown exponentially over the past couple of weeks and it’s finally to the point where we can believe the data it regurgitates when called upon.

As of yesterday, the major players in the database were as expected — which was.. unexpected.

The leading contributor to the database is eBay which is discounted from the rankings and put into it’s own little bubble. The sheer number of cards listed on eBay is gigantic and webpages for each item are being counted every time that they’re updated.

1. Baseball America – 24078 Cataloged URLs
2. NBC Sports – 8565 Cataloged URLs
3. MLB.com – 6568 Cataloged URLs
4. MinorLeagueBall – 6265 Cat. URLs
5. Sporting News – 6192 Cat. URLs
6. SB Nations – 6134 Cat. URLs
7. Rays Index – 5039 Cat. URLs
8. Baseball Think Factory – 4540 Cat URLs
9. Baseball Prospectus – 4520 Cat URLs

There are a few websites with solid numbers that I’ve already discounted in any of the maths.

Wikipedia.org takes the cake for obvious reasons with almost 5500 Cataloged URLs, but Topix.com doesn’t lag all that far behind with 4983.

When it comes to social networking sites, Twitter is number one with 3359 Cataloged URLs with Facebook lagging behind with 2387 Cataloged URLs.

Last, but not least, are the message boards. The cream of the crop when it comes to weighing what’s hot and what’s not.

Number one? SportsGraphing.com — But they’re just relaying a lot of MLB Feeds, so they’ve been tossed out the window.

Sportscardforum.com and Freedomcardboard.com are 69 cataloged URLs away from each other with 3571 and 3502 respectively. Blowoutcards.com has 3453 and baseball-fever has 3036 URLs.