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89HEAT SCOREHEAT 13 · HOT NOW · VALUE SUPPORT · NEXT SIGNAL
What’s hot—and why.
A transparent, hold-oriented market ranking built from exact completed sales. Attention alone never earns the score.WHAT’S NEW
The Man
Baseball, basketball and football checklists, format-specific odds and six new exact-card market records are now indexed.OPEN SIGNAL ↘WATCH NEXT
Rainbow Flick
More repeat sales after the first release window are needed to prove durable collector attention.OPEN SIGNAL ↘SPEND LENS
Heat ≠ value
We separately show value support: liquidity, depth and collector breadth—the evidence that may help a card hold a defensible market.SEE THE MATH ↘PULLED. HEAT SCORE · v1.0
Five signals.
One honest read.
Every signal is scored from 0–100. The weighted result is reduced when the exact completed-sale sample is thin.
HEAT = (0.30L + 0.25D + 0.20M + 0.15B + 0.10F) × EEVIDENCE FACTOR · 1.00 AT 15+ EXACT SALES · 0.95 AT 8–14 · 0.88 AT 3–7 · 0.72 BELOW 3OPEN THE EXACT NORMALIZATION ↘
- L · LIQUIDITY
- 100 × min(1, ln(1 + exact 90-day sales) ÷ ln(21))
- D · DEPTH
- 60 × min(1, exact sales ÷ 20) + 40 × min(1, active card records ÷ 5)
- M · MOMENTUM
- 50 + 100 × average same-card raw change, capped at ±50% and shrunk toward 50 until three comparable series exist
- B · BREADTH
- 60 × min(1, active subjects ÷ 5) + 40 × min(1, active sports ÷ 3)
- F · FRESHNESS
- 100 × e−days since latest exact sale ÷ 45
- VALUE SUPPORT
- (0.45L + 0.35D + 0.20B) × E · a market-support lens, not a return forecast
Exact completed sales in the trailing 90 days, log-scaled so one blockbuster cannot dominate.
Total exact sales plus the number of distinct card records with buyers.
Latest raw sale versus earlier raw sales for the same exact card; thin series shrink toward neutral.
Demand spread across distinct subjects and sports rather than one headline card.
Days since the latest exact completed sale, using a 45-day decay curve.
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MARKET LEADERBASKETBALL · F1 · TENNIS
Helix
The broadest tracked audience, with deep records across three sports and six subjects.
No other ranked family combines this many distinct collector pools with comparable completed-sale depth.
The latest tracked sale is an Alcaraz PSA 9; raw lanes remain mixed rather than moving as one market.
Fresh transactions outside the biggest stars would confirm that breadth is still converting into demand.
- Market lane
- $42.85–$2,740 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 10 exact sales / 30d · 38 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 67 exact sales · 16/16 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 15 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 16 subjects · 4 sports · latest sale Aug 12
- Risk
- A shared design name does not make athletes, releases or sports interchangeable comps.
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MARKET LEADERBASKETBALL · SOCCER
Ultra Violet
The strongest mix of current turnover, market depth and cross-sport collector demand.
Basketball supplies the high-ticket liquidity while UEFA legends add a second, lower-entry collector lane.
Kevin Durant added an August 17 raw sale, while six newly completed Basketball records expand the market view to thirteen tracked subjects.
Whether repeat raw sales hold across both sports—not only the Cooper Flagg and LeBron headline cards.
- Market lane
- $83.37–$2,200 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 32 exact sales / 30d · 65 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 72 exact sales · 13/13 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 13 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 13 subjects · 2 sports · latest sale Aug 17
- Risk
- Wide grading spreads and a few outliers make exact release, condition and card code essential.
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MARKET LEADERBASEBALL · BASKETBALL · FOOTBALL · SOCCER
The Man
A 1998 Finest icon rebuilt as a four-sport modern case-hit family.
Eight fully evidenced anchors now span four sports, from Ohtani and Wembanyama to Jaxson Dart, Josh Allen, Max Dowman and Estêvão.
Baseball, basketball and football checklists, format-specific odds and six new exact-card market records are now indexed.
Judge’s downward recent sales and Wembanyama’s $2,400 outlier need another round of comps before any value call.
- Market lane
- $33.00–$1,483 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 22 exact sales / 30d · 37 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 39 exact sales · 15/16 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 10 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 15 subjects · 4 sports · latest sale Aug 15
- Risk
- The TM code repeats across releases; cross-sport blending would manufacture a false price curve.
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MARKET LEADERSOCCER · CLUB + WORLD CUP
Manga
The deepest premium original-art market in the index, with activity across two separate Panini releases.
Thirty exact raw sales across ten card records show repeat high-ticket demand beyond a single player or product.
Kylian Mbappé’s club Manga added the latest exact sale on August 12; the 2026 World Cup issue remains a separate comp lane.
Whether same-card raw prices stabilize after recent declines while sales continue across both releases.
- Market lane
- $872–$9,338 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 19 exact sales / 30d · 30 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 30 exact sales · 10/10 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- cooling · 10 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 6 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Aug 12
- Risk
- Prices range from three to five figures, and mixing club with World Cup cards would create false momentum.
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MARKET LEADERSOCCER
Rainbow Flick
A team-set case hit that found a new lane in Merlin Premier League.
Seven exact sales across three subjects give the June Merlin release an early multi-player base, while the wider design now spans club, country and league products.
Max Dowman establishes the premium lane while Anthony Gordon provides the tightest lower-price series.
More repeat sales after the first release window are needed to prove durable collector attention.
- Market lane
- $15.76–$400 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 3 exact sales / 30d · 16 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 17 exact sales · 9/9 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 5 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 9 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Jul 23
- Risk
- The family is still young; two-card samples can reverse direction quickly.
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RISINGSOCCER · CROSS-SPORT ICON
Kaboom!
The original-art case hit now has a four-release soccer map led by liquid Haaland demand and a Yamal grail.
Six exact star records span Premier League, Road to Qatar and two Donruss FIFA generations without blending their price histories.
Haaland added an August 4 raw sale at $1,501, while Yamal’s rookie-era #7 remains the category’s high-value outlier.
Whether Haaland’s recent raw depth holds and whether another exact Yamal raw sale confirms the current guide lane.
- Market lane
- $255–$3,443 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 3 exact sales / 30d · 7 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 20 exact sales · 6/6 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 4 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 6 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Aug 4
- Risk
- Repeated card numbers, numbered parallels and very large grading spreads make loose Kaboom searches especially dangerous.
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BUILDINGSOCCER · WORLD CUP
Color Blast
A white-space icon enters the World Cup with immediate four-figure demand and fresh exact sales.
Four indexed singles already span current stars, a host-country anchor and Pelé, while Ronaldo produced two PSA 10 sales in eight days.
The 42-card checklist is now live in PULLED. with four exact images, current market evidence and eBay-ready searches.
Whether raw transaction depth catches up with the early graded Ronaldo headline results.
- Market lane
- $411–$1,500 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 5 exact sales / 30d · 6 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 6 exact sales · 4/4 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- improving · 1 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 4 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Aug 15
- Risk
- Launch-window supply is thin; active asks can sit far above the most recent completed sale.
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WATCHTENNIS
Game. Set. Match.
Good historical depth and player breadth, but current activity has cooled.
Thirteen exact sales across five players still make this one of the better-mapped tennis case-hit markets.
The latest tracked result is Casper Ruud at $20.50, well below his two earlier raw sales.
A fresh cluster of sales is required before the category can return to an active heat state.
- Market lane
- $42.25–$141 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 1 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 13 exact sales · 5/5 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- cooling · 4 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 5 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Jun 25
- Risk
- Die-cut condition and stale guide values can make an apparent discount misleading.
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WATCHFORMULA 1
Vegas at Night
Fresh high-ticket activity, but the published market remains extremely narrow.
A recent Hamilton raw transaction restores attention to a scarce five-card Hobby-only checklist.
Hamilton sold raw on August 7; Max Verstappen still has no exact sale in the published PULLED. record.
A verified Max sale or a second active driver would turn a one-card signal into category evidence.
- Market lane
- $1,016–$1,525 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 1 exact sale / 30d · 4 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 4 exact sales · 1/2 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 1 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 1 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Aug 7
- Risk
- Raw, PSA 9 and PSA 10 prices are too different to blend, and one subject currently carries the record.
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THIN PROOFSOCCER
Budapest at Night
Premium names and long odds attract attention, but completed-sale proof is still thin.
Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé create obvious collector interest in a compact ten-card SSP.
No exact sale has entered the published record since June 13, so attention is not yet repeat liquidity.
A third exact Yamal sale or broader checklist activity is the minimum useful confirmation.
- Market lane
- $404–$2,300 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 1 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 4 exact sales · 2/2 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 2 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 2 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Jun 13
- Risk
- Four tracked sales across two subjects cannot support a robust direction or appreciation claim.
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THIN PROOFSOCCER · WORLD CUP
Color Blast Duals
National-team pairings turn the Color Blast silhouette into a two-star scarcity play.
Argentina #2 has a fresh $3,850 raw sale, while Spain #5 carries visible active-listing attention around Yamal and Cubarsí.
Two exact cards from the 14-card checklist now have distinct database identities and eBay searches.
A first verified Spain #5 sale and more than one Argentina result are needed to establish a usable range.
- Market lane
- $3,850 tracked raw guide
- Liquidity
- 1 exact sale / 30d · 1 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 1 exact sales · 1/2 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 0 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 1 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Aug 7
- Risk
- One sale and an active ask do not establish value; the dual checklist also reuses numbers found in the single checklist.
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THIN PROOFSOCCER
Hero Variation
An accessible alternate-image category with clear identity, but no current transaction signal.
Published format odds and a recognizable 25-card checklist make the category easy to understand and collect.
Haaland #39 has five exact raw sales in the record, but the latest remains September 2025.
A fresh exact sale is required before the category can earn liquidity or freshness points.
- Market lane
- $26.50 tracked raw guide
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 0 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 5 exact sales · 1/1 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 1 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 1 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Sep 4
- Risk
- The base card shares #39; only the alternate photograph confirms the Hero Variation.
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FORMULA 1 · SOCCER
The Grail
A verified ultra-rare design with no exact completed-sale market record yet.
Official long odds and a nine-panel connected artwork create a strong collector story—but not market proof.
The checklist and 1:5,951 F1 Hobby odds are mapped; exact card-level sales remain research open.
The first exact, dated sale with panel number, condition and release attached.
- Market lane
- NO GUIDE
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 0 / 90d
- Sales depth
- NO EXACT MARKET RECORD · RESEARCH OPEN
- Momentum
- cooling · 0 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- NO COMPLETED-SALE ATTENTION SIGNAL SURFACED
- Risk
- Scarcity without completed-sale evidence cannot support a price guide, momentum call or appreciation thesis.
Heat Score measures market quality and current attention; it is not a forecast of future returns. Value Support emphasizes liquidity, market depth and collector breadth because those signals can improve price discovery and exitability, but no score guarantees that a card will hold value or appreciate.
CALCULATED FROM THE PUBLISHED PULLED. EXACT-SALE DATASET · SNAPSHOT 2026-08-17 · ACTIVE LISTINGS AND ASKING PRICES EXCLUDED · UNKNOWN IS NOT ZERO