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88HEAT SCOREHEAT 12 · PREMIUM · VALUE SUPPORT · NEXT SIGNAL
What’s hot—and why.
A $100+ category ranking built from exact completed sales. Attention alone never earns the score.WHAT’S NEW
The Man
Mike Trout TM-8 adds four recent raw sales; Patrick Mahomes II TM-4 adds six raw results without mixing the PSA 9 lane.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. EDITORIAL SCORE · HUMAN READ
Taste, stated plainly.
Editorial Score is PULLED.’s subjective assessment of design and collector significance. It never changes Heat, Value Support, evidence or database order.
How easily collectors recognize the design and distinguish it from other inserts.
How the set, athlete and cultural references contribute to the card's appeal.
The design's history, influence and appeal across releases.
How the choice of subjects and chase cards encourages collectors to follow the series.
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.
#188HEAT
SCORE91EDITORIAL
SCORE91EDITORIAL
MARKET LEADERBASEBALL · BASKETBALL · FOOTBALL · SOCCER
STRONGER SUPPORTVALUE SUPPORT 100/100
The Man
A 1998 Finest icon rebuilt as a four-sport modern case-hit family.
ICON · EDITORIAL 91The revival keeps the original design recognizable and extends it across sports with a checklist of major stars.
Ten cards with complete supporting records now span four sports, including new photographs of Trout TM-8 and Mahomes TM-4.
Mike Trout TM-8 adds four recent raw sales; Patrick Mahomes II TM-4 adds six raw results without mixing the PSA 9 lane.
Judge’s downward recent sales and Wembanyama’s $2,400 outlier need another round of comps before any value call.
Liquidity100
Depth100
Momentum48
Breadth100
Freshness88
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 1.00- Market lane
- $33.00–$1,483 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 4 exact sales / 30d · 35 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 49 exact sales · 18/19 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 13 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 18 subjects · 4 sports · latest sale Oct 7
- Risk
- The TM code repeats across releases; cross-sport blending would manufacture a false price curve.
#287HEAT
SCORE86EDITORIAL
SCORE86EDITORIAL
MARKET LEADERBASKETBALL · F1 · TENNIS
STRONGER SUPPORTVALUE SUPPORT 100/100
Helix
The broadest tracked audience, with 18 separate card markets across four sports.
DISTINCTIVE · EDITORIAL 86The pattern is recognizable across sports, though its lasting appeal is still developing.
No other ranked family combines this many distinct collector pools with comparable completed-sale depth.
LeBron H-1 and Curry H-3 now pair fresh four-figure raw clusters with verified exact-card photos.
Fresh transactions outside the biggest stars would confirm that breadth is still converting into demand.
Liquidity100
Depth100
Momentum49
Breadth100
Freshness69
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 1.00- Market lane
- $42.85–$1,524 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 6 exact sales / 30d · 32 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 87 exact sales · 24/30 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 20 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 24 subjects · 4 sports · latest sale Sep 26
- Risk
- A shared design name does not make athletes, releases or sports interchangeable comps.
#382HEAT
SCORE88EDITORIAL
SCORE88EDITORIAL
MARKET LEADERBASKETBALL · SOCCER
STRONGER SUPPORTVALUE SUPPORT 97/100
Ultra Violet
The strongest mix of current turnover, market depth and cross-sport collector demand.
DISTINCTIVE · EDITORIAL 88Bold graphics give Ultra Violet a consistent, recognizable look across sports.
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.
Liquidity100
Depth100
Momentum51
Breadth87
Freshness34
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 1.00- Market lane
- $83.37–$2,347 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 35 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 73 exact sales · 13/13 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 13 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 13 subjects · 2 sports · latest sale Aug 25
- Risk
- Wide grading spreads and a few outliers make exact release, condition and card code essential.
#480HEAT
SCORE95EDITORIAL
SCORE95EDITORIAL
MARKET LEADERSOCCER · CLUB + WORLD CUP
STRONGER SUPPORTVALUE SUPPORT 95/100
Manga
The deepest premium original-art market in the index, with activity across two separate Panini releases.
ICON · EDITORIAL 95Original illustrations draw on different cultural references and give each release room to develop its own style.
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.
Liquidity100
Depth100
Momentum25
Breadth73
Freshness88
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 1.00- Market lane
- $872–$8,700 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 1 exact sale / 30d · 20 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 29 exact sales · 10/10 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- cooling · 10 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 6 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Oct 7
- Risk
- Prices range from three to five figures, and mixing club with World Cup cards would create false momentum.
#571HEAT
SCORE96EDITORIAL
SCORE96EDITORIAL
RISINGSOCCER · CROSS-SPORT ICON
SUPPORTEDVALUE SUPPORT 76/100
Kaboom!
The original-art case hit spans four tracked soccer releases, led by regular Haaland sales and a high-value Yamal card.
ICON · EDITORIAL 96An instantly recognizable design with a lasting influence across sports.
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 continues to sell raw, and whether another raw sale of the same Yamal card supports the current guide.
Liquidity68
Depth88
Momentum55
Breadth73
Freshness64
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 1.00- Market lane
- $255–$1,650 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 1 exact sale / 30d · 7 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 16 exact sales · 6/6 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 3 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 6 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Sep 23
- Risk
- Repeated card numbers, numbered parallels and very large grading spreads make loose Kaboom searches especially dangerous.
#661HEAT
SCORE79EDITORIAL
SCORE79EDITORIAL
BUILDINGSOCCER
SUPPORTEDVALUE SUPPORT 67/100
Rainbow Flick
A team-set case hit that found a new lane in Merlin Premier League.
COMPELLING · EDITORIAL 79The motion and color suit football. More releases will help show whether collectors stay interested.
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.
Liquidity46
Depth91
Momentum61
Breadth73
Freshness16
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 1.00- Market lane
- $15.76–$400 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 3 / 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.
#754HEAT
SCORE93EDITORIAL
SCORE93EDITORIAL
BUILDINGSOCCER · WORLD CUP
MIXED SUPPORTVALUE SUPPORT 57/100
Color Blast
A white-space icon enters the World Cup with immediate four-figure demand and fresh exact sales.
ICON · EDITORIAL 93The white background, scarce supply and star subjects make Color Blast one of the hobby's most recognizable modern designs.
Five indexed singles span current stars, a host-country anchor and Pelé, while Ronaldo produced two PSA 10 sales in eight days.
Yamal #11 adds one $8,152 raw sale, but stays explicitly thin with its guide and photo still open.
Whether raw transaction depth catches up with the early graded Ronaldo headline results.
Liquidity64
Depth61
Momentum64
Breadth73
Freshness27
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 0.88- Market lane
- $411–$1,500 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 6 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 7 exact sales · 5/5 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- improving · 1 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 5 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Aug 15
- Risk
- Launch-window supply is thin; active asks can sit far above the most recent completed sale.
#851HEAT
SCORE87EDITORIAL
SCORE87EDITORIAL
BUILDINGFORMULA 1
MIXED SUPPORTVALUE SUPPORT 54/100
Vegas at Night
Fresh high-ticket activity, but the published market remains extremely narrow.
DISTINCTIVE · EDITORIAL 87The Las Vegas setting and night-race imagery give this Formula 1 insert a distinctive look.
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 sales for a second driver would show activity beyond one card.
Liquidity59
Depth60
Momentum56
Breadth49
Freshness25
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 0.95- Market lane
- $382–$1,601 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 5 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 12 exact sales · 3/4 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- mixed / steady · 3 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 3 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale Aug 12
- Risk
- Raw, PSA 9 and PSA 10 prices are too different to blend, and one subject currently carries the record.
#933HEAT
SCORE82EDITORIAL
SCORE82EDITORIAL
THIN PROOFTENNIS
SPECULATIVEVALUE SUPPORT 40/100
Game. Set. Match.
Good historical depth and player breadth, but current activity has cooled.
DISTINCTIVE · EDITORIAL 82The die-cut shape fits tennis well and makes these cards easy to recognize.
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.
Liquidity0
Depth79
Momentum15
Breadth73
Freshness9
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 0.95- Market lane
- $42.25–$141 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 0 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 13 exact sales · 5/10 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.
#1021HEAT
SCORE78EDITORIAL
SCORE78EDITORIAL
THIN PROOFSOCCER
SPECULATIVEVALUE SUPPORT 15/100
Budapest at Night
Premium names and long odds attract attention, but completed-sale proof is still thin.
COMPELLING · EDITORIAL 78A city-at-night design with major names, though there are too few releases to judge its lasting appeal.
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.
Liquidity0
Depth28
Momentum53
Breadth37
Freshness7
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 0.88- Market lane
- $404–$2,300 tracked raw guides
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 0 / 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.
#1120HEAT
SCORE90EDITORIAL
SCORE90EDITORIAL
THIN PROOFFORMULA 1 · SOCCER
SPECULATIVEVALUE SUPPORT 11/100
The Grail
The nine-panel F1 chase now has an exact Max Verstappen market anchor, but no sale inside the current 90-day window.
ICON · EDITORIAL 90Connected artwork and extreme scarcity make the set appealing, though the market evidence is still incomplete.
The connected artwork and official long odds are now accompanied by four raw GrailNo.1 sales.
Max Verstappen GrailNo.1 adds a $349–$800 raw range; the latest tracked result remains May 26.
A fresh exact sale with panel number, coating, peel and redemption-code status attached.
Liquidity0
Depth20
Momentum67
Breadth25
Freshness4
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 0.88- Market lane
- $800 tracked raw guide
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 30d · 0 / 90d
- Sales depth
- 4 exact sales · 1/1 tracked card markets active
- Momentum
- improving · 1 condition-matched raw series
- Attention
- 1 subjects · 1 sport · latest sale May 26
- Risk
- The four source titles do not resolve coating, peel and code status consistently, so the range is not automatically interchangeable.
#1219HEAT
SCORE84EDITORIAL
SCORE84EDITORIAL
THIN PROOFSOCCER · WORLD CUP
SPECULATIVEVALUE SUPPORT 14/100
Color Blast Duals
Color Blast Duals pairs national-team stars in the scarce Color Blast design.
DISTINCTIVE · EDITORIAL 84The pairings give collectors a reason to consider both subjects, though the series is too new to judge its lasting appeal.
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.
Liquidity23
Depth11
Momentum50
Breadth25
Freshness23
EVIDENCE MULTIPLIER × 0.72- Market lane
- $3,850 tracked raw guide
- Liquidity
- 0 exact sales / 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.
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 2026-10-13 · ACTIVE LISTINGS AND ASKING PRICES EXCLUDED · UNKNOWN IS NOT ZERO