Hobby Time w/ DirkNashty

Following up on the guards and wings, I look at 11 bigs players and try to identify who, if any, are on the cusp of a breakout 2023-24 NBA season. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

Following up on the guards, I take a look at 17 wing players and try to identify who, if any, are on the cusp of a breakout 2023-24 NBA season. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

What makes a breakout in the NBA? What is a breakout? How might we identify one that's coming? I get deep into this for guards and try to identify who is on the precipice of taking that next leap. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

John, Nathanael and I got together last week for the first time in a while to catch up. We talked about our teams offseasons, previewed a future episode on identifying breakout players, and just had a great time getting together. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

John (@istanbulcards) and Nathanael talk rank Kobe's top rookie cards by aesthetics, spend some time on Victor Wembanyama and pre-rookie cards, and finally take a look at SGA's market compared to the overall basketball market and his draft class-mate Luka Doncic. It was a fun conversation and we hope everyone enjoys it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

Nathanael is back to talk about 90s inserts, what makes them great and we discuss whether or not non-auto, non-paralleled inserts of today could hold up in collector's hearts and minds over time. It was a great discussion and as always was tons of fun. (00:04) Catchup and What's New (12:52) 90s Inserts - What are they, what makes them great? (33:23) Ultra Modern Inserts - What's out there? (56:02) Parting Thoughts (57:39) Dirk Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

John (IG: @IstanbulCards) and I had a wonderful conversation on our personal experiences with soccer and soccer cards, and (surprise) we just happened to do it without ever mentioning Haaland, Mbappe, or Messi. Enjoy and thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

We've got a special episode today! Our friend John (@IstanbulCards) had a chat with his friend Will (@Kart_Adami) on a variety of subjects including growing up collecting in New Zealand, some big wins purchasing lots, their collecting origins, and even the potentially untapped markets of Cricket and Rugby cards. Our thanks to Will for lending his time, I know he and John had a great time putting it together, and we hope you enjoy it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

Following up on the 4/12/23 Episode looking at Guards, today we're talking about Wings, Forwards and Bigs and comparing their rookie season statistical profiles and comparing them to other players. This is one of my favorite things to do and look at so I hope you enjoy it! (00:00) Intro, Methodology, and Card Price Foundation (04:42) Paolo Banchero (10:36) Jabari Smith Jr. (17:26) Keegan Murray (21:53) Bennedict Mathurin (30:09) Jeremy Sochan (35:59) Ousmane Dieng (37:36) Duren, Williams, Kessler (41:44) Tari Eason (47:37) Malaki Branham (48:47) Others (50:46) Card Price Review --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

John and Nathanael stopped by today to talk about our recent sports card activities and look at some data around non-playoff players and their card prices over the last six months. As always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed putting it together! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

Nathanael and I had a chat last week about a variety of topics. We hit on a variety of topics and had a good time chatting. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

I'm happy to share one of my favorite episodes comparing rookies to their predecessors. Starting with guards I go deep into each 2022-23 NBA Rookie guards statistical profiles and compare to other NBA players rookie seasons. Then at the end I wrap it up with a bit comparing their early card prices. This was a particularly fun episode as I found several comparisons that were nearly spot on, and a few that were very surprising. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed putting it together! (00:00) - Intro (01:21) - Preface / Methodology (03:13) - Jaden Ivey (08:44) - Shaedon Sharpe (13:36) - Dyson Daniels (14:57) - Jalen Williams (18:59) - Ochai Agbaji (21:18) - Malaki Branham (24:00) - Jaden Hardy (28:45) - Early Card Prices Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

Nathanael, John and I got together with one agenda item in mind: our top cards. It was a really fun discussion and I hope everyone enjoys! Thank you, --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

Hello! Shorter episode today, have a PSA return I recorded but have been holding and then Nathanael recorded a bit about how far he'd have to go to find a team he wouldn't trade the entire Bulls roster for. I hope everyone enjoys, have a great day! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

John and Nathanael cover a wide variety of sports card topics, including: PC Updates including a huge Luka Modric acquisition A few of Nathanael's strategies for buying and selling on eBay John's Sacramento Kings Topps Chrome Refractor collection Ranking the last 10 draft classes Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

John, Nathanael, and I all had a chance to get together and chat about what we've been up to, the Jokic discourse, who has the most to lose or gain from this year's NBA Playoffs, compared some prices of stars and RCs in Prizm Silver and premium base set /99. It was our first time all together and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed putting it together! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dirknashty/message

Today Nathanael and I had an awesome chat about his Through-The-Mail project with some really exciting returns, we talked about the 1961 Fleer set and what makes it so iconic, had a discussion about why SGs seem to be so beloved by the hobby, and wrapped up with some all-star game festivities talk. This was one of my favorite episodes to record, I hope everyone has as good a time listening to it as we had making it! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

I'm excited to bring to you a conversation with John Bowlus - IstanbulCards on IG to talk about the sports card hobby, collecting overseas, the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks, the NBA Trade Deadline. We had a great conversation and I hope everyone enjoys hearing his perspective! Thank you for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Today Nathanael and I review some things we've been up to, spotlight a PC Card each and compare a few current players to players who played in the 90s. We wrap up with what Nathanael would like to see the Bulls do ahead of this years trade deadline. Hope you enjoy it! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Nathanael and I got to catch up on what's been catching our eyes in the hobby. Then we spent some time to draft our all-star teams, and at the tail end of it I got a knock at the door and my Luka Green Prizm I sent off to PSA came back, so I got to open that live with Nathanael. Had a lot of fun today, apologies for the audio quality on my end but it was a great conversation thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Today I was joined again by Pat to follow up on our combined 6 entries in the VBA season-end tournament and talk and talk a bit about what's the come. Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

VBA is fun, challenging, rewarding and ... dead. My friend Pat is back with me to commiserate and discuss a bit how we thought about setting up lineups for the final year end tournament. Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Nathanael and I talk recent card activity, some of our best and worst looking basketball card sets, and end with a round of NBA Stats trivia.  We had a blast recording this episode and I hope everyone enjoys listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Excited today to talk with GodsloveDAO, owner of Grape Gaming GG, one of the top teams and GMs in VBA. We talked about what got us into VBA, what excites us about the future, how we think about setting lineups, and how the game has changed over the first few months. We had a great time talking and hope you enjoy listening. Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Today I share a researching fail I had where I ended up just wasting some time trying to track down some pop counts. Also I spend some time talking through some cards I'm preparing for my first PSA sub. I talked about what I saw, made an official prediction on the grade, and put it on the podcast so we can laugh at it a few months down the line! You can see these cards at on Instagram @DirkNasthy_Pod Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

I'm this episode Nathanael and I spend quite a bit of time talking about players we've heard others talk about, either now or in the past, that we're just not into or haven't been into. It's a little bit of a downer but I hope everyone enjoys it at least a little, but more than that I'm thankful for you, and hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Bringing it back to cards and the NBA, I was excited to get to spend some time with Nathanael as we covered several topics related to basketball cards, the card market, digital cards and the NBA as a whole. As always feedback is appreciated, thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Today I was joined again by my friend Pat (@FabEuless on VBA discord) and (@DjaMimbe on Twitter) to recap the VBA x KOD Tournament Game 2, and preview his 3rd and final game of the group stage against Smup45.  It was a fun discussion and I hope everyone enjoys it! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Back again with Pat @Djamimbe and FabEuless to recap his game 1 matchup and talk through setting lineups for game 2 of the KOD x VBA Tournament. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Today I'm joined by my good friend Pat, @FabEuless in the VBA universe, and @Djamimbe on Twitter, owner of ALF Lady Deathstrike and VBA x KOD tournament participate. After an introduction, we talk generally about lineup setting and then do some live lineup preview for the first game of the first round of the tournament. It was a great conversation and I hope all the VBA heads enjoy it. https://play.vbagame.com/live/109470 < Link to the game we discussed preparing for For more info on VBA visit vbagame.com, joint the discord, or reach out to me directly and I'd be happy to help Thank you for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

I'm very excited to bring you all an episode about something I'm trying to learn more about 90s cards. Like a lot, I was in card collecting in the 90s, but wasn't super into basketball cards back then, so I enlisted Nathanael's help to learn more about this era of cards. I've added some of these to my watchlist and hope you all enjoy! (00:00) Intro (03:30) Shawn Kemp (19:34) Shaquille O'Neal (34:15) Jason Kidd (45:00) Kobe Bryant (57:30) Tim Duncan (67:00) Dirk Nowitzki Thank you all! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

Nathanael and I dig further into our ranked lists of players we'd want to put $100 in for the next 3-10 years. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

In today's episode I talk through what I've always been interested in from other podcasts. What it's like, is it hard to start, what kind of prep goes into it, what has gone well and not well, things I'd do differently, and .... listener numbers! Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dirknashty/message

In this episode we get a Hobby Time first, a guest! Nathanael joined me to discuss our player rankings if we were investing $100 for the next several years. We talk briefly about his sports card journey, a little bit of TV talk and spend the majority of time on 15-20 players, where we have them ranked and why. It was a really fun episode to record and I hope everyone enjoys it!

In this episode I review a study I've been looking at comparing cumulative Gem Mint rates, Mint and above rates for 10 cards across PSA, BGS and SGC. I talk through the prompt for the study, my methodology, and detail each card and relate it back to pricing, and wrapping up with things I've learned. I hope you enjoy, thanks for listening!

No card talk today, this episode is all about what is rapidly becoming one of my favorite hobbies, the Solana NFT-based basketball sim, the Virtual Basketball Association (VBA). Continuing from Episode 3 way back in May, I break down the different player archetypes, community resources and my own approach to setting my main team lineup. Thanks so much for listening! I hope you enjoy it! (1:00) - Intro to VBA (9:00) - Player Archetypes Comparison and Stats (40:00) - Community Resources (46:00) - My Setup and Approach

Thank you for listening! This week I wanted to figure out if there was a way to use card prices to rank NBA Rookies from the last 5 classes (2017-2021) while taking into consideration print count differences year over year. But I start by expanding a little bit on what I think is a little known fact about Impeccable TMall and the unnumbered base cards found in those boxes. Coming soon: An appearance on the Hoops and Cards podcast and next episode will (finally) go deep into VBAGame, the players and strategies I employ and what I've learned about it so far. Thank you again!

It's been 7 weeks!! I just wanted to get on, reintroduce myself, and explain a bit what I've been doing while away these last several weeks. I also spend some time on my recent dealings and current strategy related to basketball cards. And hopefully lay the groundwork for a few future episodes. Thanks a ton for listening, enjoy!

Today I brain dump all the things I've been up to in the last couple of weeks. I share some card buys I made based on the research I shared in episodes 7, 8, 9 and 10, as well as a few PC items. I talk through some of the movies and TV shows I've been watching and enjoying. And end the podcast talking about the Virtual Basketball Association (VBA - VBAGame.com), which I've been very fortunate to win some prizes in.  No real "analysis" today, but I appreciate everyone letting me sort of brain dump all of the things I've been up to lately. Thank you all! And please send any feedback, good or bad @DirkNashty on Twitter or DirkNashtyPod@gmail.com 

Today I used PSA pops of graded cards across multiple years and players to build estimated print runs of certain base cards and unnumbered parallels in order to try to find values. First we go through the method, which admittedly isn't perfect, but I'd call directionally accurate Then talk through estimated print runs for base and unnumbered parallels And wrap up by trying, potentially unsuccessfully, to make sense of the pops and prices for a couple of players. Thank you for listening!

Episode 9 is all about creating a price expectation for some highly liquid basketball cards and grades. I compare prices of Prizm Base, Prizm Silver, Optic Base, and Optic Holos across 4 years, and 3 grades (PSA 10, PSA 9, Raw) to develop (1) a few simple rules of thumb -- beginning of episode, and (2) a formula to estimate the expected price of some of these cards and finally (3) use this expected price to compare to actual comps to find undervalued and overvalued cards. I'm excited for this episode, this is the kind of stuff I love to do. In future episodes, I plan to use a similar process to estimate the volume of unnumbered parallels, and even to rank players against each other in terms of their overall market and maybe even compare that to my own collectability rankings. I hope you all enjoy it, please please send any feedback you've got for me, my contact info can be heard in the first minute! Thank you all so much, I really enjoy doing this and learning a new skill, and I hope everyone finds it as interesting as I do. Cheers!

Today, I wrap up my review of players who are no longer rookies, and have not made all-star or all-nba teams. AND the best part, I actually (finally!) bring in some data related to their cards and how I might be looking to spend on them this offseason. Would love to hear your feedback @DirkNashty on Twitter, @DirkNashty_pod on Instagram.

Thanks everyone for checking this out! Today I started by sharing some of the Basketball Card things I've been up to including some buys, some beats, and taking my nephew to the Dallas Card Show. Then I go through some of the 190+ players I reviewed that are not rookies, and have not made an all-star or all-nba team to figure out who I might be interested in. In today's episode I talk about the "no thanks" or the "wait-and-see" guys, in part 2 I'll go through the guys I'm really interested in. Thanks as always for listening, I really appreciate all of you, please contact me if you've got any feedback, anything you'd like to hear etc. You can hear my contact info in the first minute of the podcast. Enjoy and have a great day!

Today I wrapped up my comparison of NBA rookies to All-NBA, All-Star and fringe All-Star level players by looking at Wings, Forwards and Centers. As well as shared some of my personal favorite podcasts both sport and non-sport related. As always I'd love to hear from yall, please feel free to reach out if with any feedback or anything you'd like to hear going forward. 0:00 - Intro 0:54 - My Personal Podcast Playlist 7:01 - Wings and Bigs Overview 17:55 - Center and Forward Rookie Season Comparisons (Mobley, Sengun, Isaiah Jackson, Jalen Johnson) 29:09 - Wing Rookie Season Comparisons (Barnes, Franz, Kuminga, Ziaire, Herb Jones) Thank you!

In this episode, I compared the rookie seasons of some of today's top players to the 2021-22 rookie class. I had a lot of fun putting the data together and found some really interesting comparisons, I hope you all enjoy it! Thank you for listening and as always feel free to reach out to me on twitter @DirkNashty (0:00) Intro (0:57) Thank You! (Hoops and Cards, Nashaq Index, Virtual Basketball Association - VBA) (3:11) All-NBA Level Rookie Season Review (Looking back at Lebron, CP3, Russell Westbrook, Steph, James Harden, Kyrie, Kemba (?), Dame, Beal, Ben Simmons, and Luka's rookie season numbers) (30:18) Comparing Rookies to Other Prominent Guards and their Rookie Seasons (Giddey, Davion, Cam Thomas, Duarte, Cade, Jalen Green, Bones, Ayo, Tre Mann, Jalen Suggs, Moses Moody (52:52) Summary and Conclusion

In this episode I ran through some of the online, blockchain and other digital collectibles I've participated in, and several free sites that I use for researching these things. Again, I'm just trying to share my process, and determinations, and eventual my outcomes. But I can always be improving, if I missed a resource I did not talk about please feel free to share back with me, I'd love to hear them. 00:56 - Shared a Personal Anecdote 03:55 - Talked about some of the digital collectibles and NFTs I've participated in and my experience with each 32:07 - Shared some of the (free) resources I use for NFT data 42:14 - Talked about some of the basketball sites and stats that I use often Sincerely, if you've even read the show notes, I really appreciate it.

In this episode I talk about the Solana-based NFT experience, Virtual Basketball Association or VBA (@vbagame). I share some of the data I've pulled, talk about what I see as micro and macro level factors affecting short and medium term pricing and my approach to buying and selling. This episode is a bit less structured than others, partially by necessity, but I try to use publicly released information and my own research to inform my decision making. This is not financial advice, please do your own research, and I welcome any of your thoughts on how I can iterate my own research or better connect some of the dots. Thank you for listening, and as always feel free to reach out on Twitter and Email to chat more

In this episode I finished up my NBA rookie analysis as it relates to their card markets, focusing on wings and bigs. Share a little more about myself, and looked at the card release calendar as I plan for summer buying.

In this first episode I took a deep-ish dive into the stats on NBA Rookie guards as I try to formulate a plan for upcoming basketball card releases and summer buying season. Please bear with me, I quite literally had no idea what I was doing with this podcast thing, but would love to hear your feedback! Thanks for listening!