Is Sports Ultra Pack worth buying right now?

Our current verdict is CAUTION (score 48/100). Cash-out EV is $235 on a $250 pack (-5.9% net after the ~85% buyback) — the average rip loses money.

What is the EV of Sports Ultra Pack?

The calibrated EV is $277.75 against a pack price of $250.00, with a typical (median) pull of $219.80 across 100 indexed pulls.

What are the real odds of beating the pack price on Sports Ultra Pack?

36.0% of indexed pulls met or beat the pack price, and 6.0% returned at least double the price. These are observed odds reconstructed from real pulls, not the posted odds.

What is the typical pull from Sports Ultra Pack?

The median pull is $219.80 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $711.50.

Basketball

Sports Ultra Pack

Sports Ultra Pack is a $250 Courtyard Basketball mystery pack with a calibrated expected value of $277.75, worth $235.23 at its observed 85% buyback — a cash-out ratio of 0.941x (1.111x at sticker FMV), so it currently returns less than its price on the average rip once the buyback haircut is taken. 36.0% of 100 indexed pulls met or beat the pack price. Rip Advisor verdict: CAUTION (48/100).

Ranked #9 of 74 ranked packs by cash-out ratio, #3 of 12 Basketball packs.

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Cash-out ratio

0.941x

$235.23 back on a $250 pack, at this pack's observed 85% buyback. At sticker FMV it is 1.111x.

95% range $193.98–$276.47 — that still includes the $250 price, so this edge is inside the noise of the sample.

CAUTION-5.9% ROI

EMERGING · 100 pulls (26 effective) · todaySIGNAL Weakening · 14 h ago

Calibrated EV: $278
Cash-out EV: $235
Pack price: $250
Typical pull: $220
Hit rate: 36.0%
Lifetime EV: $270
Pulls indexed: 100
Last pull: 14h ago

01 / Rip Advisor

Is Sports Ultra Pack worth it right now?

score 48/100CAUTION

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Cash-out EV is $235 on a $250 pack (-5.9% net after the ~85% buyback) — the average rip loses money.
Cash-out EV is $235.23 against a $250.00 price, and that gap is smaller than the uncertainty around it — the 95% range is $193.98 to $276.47. On this sample the pack cannot be told apart from break-even in either direction.
The typical pull (median) is $220 — most rips return less than the pack price; the EV is carried by rare chase cards.
What recent pulls return has been stable over the last 7 days.
36.0% of pulls meet or beat the pack price, across 100 indexed pulls.

Downside · bottom-quartile rip

−$81

1 in 4 rips returns ≤ $169 cash — covering 68% of the price.

Upside · top-decile rip

+$114

1 in 10 rips returns ≥ $364 cash. Both figures use the observed buyback ratio.

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 Ultra Pack pool

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

Recent pulls are running above the lifetime average (EV +-3% over 7 days) — the pool is trending up without a restock-sized jump.

IMPROVING

Recent pulls are running above the lifetime average (EV +-3% over 7 days) — the pool is trending up without a restock-sized jump.

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

chase tier ≥ $1,250 · confidence 100%

No chase-tier pulls (≥ $1250) observed in the last 30 days.

Removals are facts; what's left is not. Each row is a unique graded card observed leaving this pack, so it is no longer in the pool — though a card can return after a buyback, which is why re-listings are flagged. We show no “chance it remains”: Courtyard publishes pulls, not inventory, so that number would be guesswork. Formula

Signal lifetime

SIGNAL Weakening · 14 h ago

Pull flow has slowed past the usual gap of 13 h, so this read is ageing faster than the pack is producing evidence. At the observed pull rate, half the evidence behind this read is replaced in about 53 days.

Newest pull: 14 h; observed
Pull rate: 1.9/day; observed
Pulls, 7d: 11; 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 Ultra Pack

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 1933 to 2025.

Current (2020+)49%$266 avg
Vintage (pre-2000)36%$275 avg
Retro (2000-2009)8%$227 avg
Modern (2010-2019)7%$321 avg

Most common sets

Sets these pulls came from.

Topps15%$242 avg
Panini Donruss Optic5%$274 avg
Panini Prizm5%$254 avg
Topps Chrome5%$299 avg
Fleer4%$264 avg
Panini Donruss Optic Uptown3%$202 avg
Bowman Best University Best of 2025 Autographs2%$200 avg
Bowman Chrome Prospect Autographs2%$508 avg

Cards seen most often

Named on every readable pull.

Michael Jordan12%$366 avg
Kobe Bryant7%$245 avg
Shohei Ohtani3%$262 avg
Ace Bailey2%$257 avg
Caitlin Clark2%$229 avg
Cooper Flagg2%$315 avg
Drake Maye2%$209 avg
KC Concepcion2%$200 avg

Built from the 100 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 Ultra Pack 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 Ultra Pack, the top 2% of pulls account for 5% 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 85% of FMV, which is the cash number every verdict on this page already uses.

Floor safety

low dilution

5% 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

84.7% of FMV observed

Across 96 indexed pulls that carry a recorded bid, a $100 FMV pull cashes out around $85 if you instant-sell — in line with the platform's 84.6%. This is the figure every verdict on the site multiplies by.

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

Net exit value

96 paired pulls · 96% bid coverage · confidence 99%

Instant-selling the average (mean) pull here returns $228.62 — $41.33 below sticker FMV (15.3% 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 Ultra Pack 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.

Across 100 indexed pulls, 36.0% returned at least the $250 pack price and 6.0% returned double or more; the single best recorded pull is $712.

Under $1250.0%· stable
$125 – $25064.0%· stable
$250 – $500 · beats the pack30.0%· stable
$500 – $1,250 · big hit6.0%· stable
$1,250+ · chase0.0%· stable

Observed across 100 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.

06 / Simulator

Sports Ultra Pack rip simulator

What ripping 1–20 packs looks like, using this pack's actual pull distribution.

Packs to rip5Hoping for

Averaged over

$277.75 per pull

Cost: $1,250
Expected cash-out: $1,176
Expected net: -$74
≥1 hit chance: 89.3%

Recent pool: pulls are weighted so newer ones count for more, the same basis as this pack’s headline, verdict and the budget tool. The 100 pulls behind the hit chance are unweighted either way, and the 85% buyback is applied to both. These two disagree here: -$14.77 per pack recent-weighted against -$21.64 all-time. The pool has moved, so which number you want depends on whether you think the recent run continues. Averages describe many rips — any single rip can land anywhere on the distribution.

Monte Carlo · 10,000 trials

Packs5

P(profit) 28.3%

Mean net −$108

Cost $1,250

Worst 5%: −$380
Bottom quartile: −$282
Median: −$151
Top quartile: +$29
Best 5%: +$307

Bootstrap resampling of 100 observed pulls with the 85% cash-out applied. Every pull is drawn with equal probability, so this is an all-time average: it will sit below the headline whenever the recent pool has run better than the lifetime one, and above it when the reverse is true. It also assumes the pool doesn't change as you rip — for top-heavy packs the downside is understated once the grail leaves. Estimates, not financial advice.

07 / Big hits

Biggest Sports Ultra Pack pulls

1997 Skybox Z-Force Boss #10 Michael Jordan (PSA 9 MINT)

$712PSA 9 MINT

2024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Autographs #CPACPR Cooper Pratt - Hta Gold Lava (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$710PSA 10 GEM MINT

2024 Panini Donruss Downtown! #7 Travis Kelce (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$621PSA 10 GEM MINT

1993 Topps #23 Michael Jordan (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$603PSA 10 GEM MINT

1993 Ultra #30 Michael Jordan (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$533PSA 10 GEM MINT

$2018 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Picks Autographs #CDAJJ Jeremiah Jackson - Gold Refractor (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$

2018 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Picks Autographs #CDAJJ Jeremiah Jackson - Gold Refractor (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$530PSA 10 GEM MINT

2021 Panini Absolute Kaboom! #K9 Davante Adams (PSA 9 MINT)

$495PSA 9 MINT

1997 Upper Deck #139 Michael Jordan (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$494PSA 10 GEM MINT

08 / EV history

Sports Ultra Pack EV over time

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

Calibrated EV currently sits at $277.75, above the $250 pack price, and has moved down 2.5% over the last 7 days.

0.941xCash-out ratio

09 / Quick answers

Sports Ultra Pack — quick answers

Is Sports Ultra Pack worth buying right now?: Our current verdict is CAUTION (score 48/100). Cash-out EV is $235 on a $250 pack (-5.9% net after the ~85% buyback) — the average rip loses money.
What is the EV of Sports Ultra Pack?: The calibrated EV is $277.75 against a pack price of $250.00, with a typical (median) pull of $219.80 across 100 indexed pulls.
What are the real odds of beating the pack price on Sports Ultra Pack?: 36.0% of indexed pulls met or beat the pack price, and 6.0% returned at least double the price. These are observed odds reconstructed from real pulls, not the posted odds.
What is the typical pull from Sports Ultra Pack?: The median pull is $219.80 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $711.50.

10 / Pull log