Is Sports City Series worth buying right now?

Our current verdict is NO DATA (score 0/100). No pack price on record, so no net or ROI figure can be computed.

What is the EV of Sports City Series?

The calibrated EV is $220.18 against a pack price of not yet set, with a typical (median) pull of $164.00 across 101 indexed pulls.

What are the real odds of beating the pack price on Sports City Series?

We cannot say yet. Sports City Series has no pack price on record, and the odds of beating a price are undefined until there is one to beat. The 101 indexed pulls are still shown below as a record of what has come out.

What is the typical pull from Sports City Series?

The median pull is $164.00 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $1,174.00.

Baseball

Sports City Series

Sports City Series is a Courtyard Baseball mystery pack with a calibrated expected value of $220.18 and a typical (median) pull of $164.00 across 101 indexed pulls. Its pack price is not yet confirmed, so the EV ratio, hit rate, and Rip Advisor verdict are pending.

Calibrated EV

$220

— ROI

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE · 101 pulls · 39dSIGNAL Awaiting new data · 39 days ago

Calibrated EV: $220
Cash-out EV: $195
Pack price: Unknown
Typical pull: $164
Hit rate: —
Lifetime EV: $213
Pulls indexed: 101
Last pull: 39d ago

01 / Rip Advisor

Is Sports City Series worth it right now?

score 0/100NO DATA

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No pack price on record, so no net or ROI figure can be computed.

Log this decision:

Verdict is computed transparently from indexed pulls: cash-out ROI, median pull, 7-day trend, hit rate, and sample size. Redemption shipping (typically $16+) is not included — cards worth less than a few times the shipping cost are usually better instant-sold than shipped. Not financial advice.

02 / Pool signals

What's happening in the Sports City Series pool

Lifecycle stage, health, and chase removals — read from indexed pulls, never guessed.

No price set — pool economics can’t be computed.

NO DATA

No price set — pool economics can’t be computed.

Pro adds the Pool Health score and chase-removal impact.

Not observable: packs remaining, value remaining, and which chases are still in the pool — Courtyard publishes a pull feed, not inventory. We label those unavailable rather than estimate them. Everything above is computed from indexed pulls and EV snapshots; thin or stale data pulls the score toward neutral. Formula

Chase tracker

No pack price set, so a chase tier cannot be anchored.

Signal lifetime

SIGNAL Awaiting new data · 39 days ago

No pulls indexed recently, so this read cannot refresh. Treat it as a snapshot of the past.

Newest pull: 39 days; observed
Pull rate: none; observed
Pulls, 7d: 0; observed
Half-life: Pro

Aged, not predicted. Half-life counts how fast new evidence arrives, measured from real pull timestamps — it is not a forecast of where EV is heading. We publish no EV-drift half-life because our snapshot history is still too short for a regression to mean anything. The seeded placeholder points this note used to warn about have been flagged in the database and excluded from every chart, trend and score, so what you see plotted is observed data. Note the headline EV is decay-weighted, so it reacts to new pulls sooner than this whole-sample horizon implies. Methodology

03 / Contents

What has come out of Sports City Series

The eras, sets and cards this pack has actually produced. A record of past pulls — Courtyard publishes no inventory, so this is not a statement about what is left.

By era

Cards seen range from 1953 to 2025.

Vintage (pre-2000)45%$235 avg
Current (2020+)40%$191 avg
Modern (2010-2019)13%$224 avg
Retro (2000-2009)3%$143 avg

Most common sets

Sets these pulls came from.

Topps28%$212 avg
Panini Donruss Optic5%$99 avg
Panini Prizm5%$176 avg
Topps 50/50 Shohei Ohtani4%$121 avg
Topps Chrome4%$102 avg
Upper Deck4%$206 avg
Fleer3%$158 avg
Panini Donruss3%$141 avg

Cards seen most often

Named on 98% of readable pulls. The rest do not print a card number, and without one the card cannot be told apart from the set name.

Shohei Ohtani9%$227 avg
Michael Jordan7%$343 avg
Anthony Volpe4%$185 avg
Mickey Mantle4%$382 avg
Drake Maye3%$92 avg
Justin Fields3%$247 avg
LeBron James3%$80 avg
Breece Hall2%$204 avg

Built from the 101 indexed pulls of this pack so far — a record of what has come out, not a promise about what is left.

04 / Floor safety

Sports City Series floor safety & buyback reality

The two ways average EV lies to you — how top-heavy the pack is, and what FMV actually converts to in cash — then which exit pays most.

In Sports City Series, the top 2% of pulls account for 14% of all pulled value — low dilution. Value is spread fairly evenly across the pool, so the average is close to what a typical rip returns. The observed instant-offer ratio is 87% of FMV, which is the cash number every verdict on this page already uses.

Floor safety

low dilution

14% of everything this pack has paid out came from just the top 2% of pulls. Value is spread broadly across pulls, so the average sits closer to the typical rip here than it does on a top-heavy pack. It still sits above the median — check both.

Buyback reality

88.4% of FMV observed

Across 99 indexed pulls that carry a recorded bid, a $100 FMV pull cashes out around $88 if you instant-sell — better than the platform's 84.6%. This is the figure every verdict on the site multiplies by.

Measured per card rather than per dollar the ratio is 87.1% — higher because cheaper cards draw proportionally better offers. That one describes a single card; the 88.4% above describes a basket, which is what an expected value needs.

Holding, listing, or physically redeeming can beat the instant offer — but redemption shipping (typically $16+) eats small wins.

Net exit value

99 paired pulls · 98% bid coverage · confidence 100%

Instant-selling the average (mean) pull here returns $190.64 — $25.02 below sticker FMV (11.6% haircut). That figure is the average of bids we actually recorded, not the platform rate applied blind.

Pro compares all three exits side by side, with the redemption breakeven and the value-by-value haircut curve for this pack.

Bids are recorded, resale is not. Instant-buyback figures are real offers captured at index time and can move. Redemption shipping starts near $16 in the US, is higher internationally, and is charged per shipment — batching pulls lowers it. We publish no resale estimate, liquidity score, or time-to-sell, because no such data is available to us. How buyback works

05 / Observed odds

Sports City Series odds — observed, not posted

Reconstructed from real pulls, so it shows what has actually been coming out — posted odds can't do that. It is a record of pulls, not a count of what is left.

Under $8217.8%· stable
$82 – $16431.7%· stable
$164 – $328 · beats the pack34.7%· stable
$328 – $820 · big hit12.9%· stable
$820+ · chase3.0%· stable

Observed across 101 indexed pulls — what actually came out of this pack, independent of the posted odds. The 48h column shows tier drift: a falling green tier means fewer of the good cards have come out lately — which may mean they are running out, or may just be a quiet 48 hours.

07 / Big hits

Biggest Sports City Series pulls

1997 Metal Universe #23 Michael Jordan (PSA 8 NM-MT)

$1,174PSA 8 NM-MT

1965 Topps #350 Mickey Mantle (PSA 4 VG-EX)

$938PSA 4 VG-EX

2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Sapphire Selections Autographs #SSAJD Jasson Dominguez - Orange (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$833PSA 10 GEM MINT

1967 Topps #118 Bobby Orr - Calder Memorial Trophy (PSA 6 EX-MT)

$599PSA 6 EX-MT

$1993 Finest #30 Bernie Williams - Refractor (PSA 8 NM-MT)$

1993 Finest #30 Bernie Williams - Refractor (PSA 8 NM-MT)

$594PSA 8 NM-MT

2022 Panini Prizm Stained Glass #SG3 Shohei Ohtani (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$567PSA 10 GEM MINT

2018 Topps Update #US1 Shohei Ohtani (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$548PSA 10 GEM MINT

2025 Panini Absolute Kaboom! Horizontal #26 Garrett Wilson (PSA 9 MINT)

$527PSA 9 MINT

08 / EV history

Sports City Series EV over time

Snapshot per scraper run. The dashed line is break-even — EV above it is +EV.

Calibrated EV currently sits at $220.18, and has moved up 0.0% over the last 7 days.

$220.18EV

09 / Quick answers

Sports City Series — quick answers

Is Sports City Series worth buying right now?: Our current verdict is NO DATA (score 0/100). No pack price on record, so no net or ROI figure can be computed.
What is the EV of Sports City Series?: The calibrated EV is $220.18 against a pack price of not yet set, with a typical (median) pull of $164.00 across 101 indexed pulls.
What are the real odds of beating the pack price on Sports City Series?: We cannot say yet. Sports City Series has no pack price on record, and the odds of beating a price are undefined until there is one to beat. The 101 indexed pulls are still shown below as a record of what has come out.
What is the typical pull from Sports City Series?: The median pull is $164.00 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $1,174.00.

10 / Pull log