Hobby Time w/ DirkNashty

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.

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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.

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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 sett…

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 …

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 ge…

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 th…

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…

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 j…

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 meth…

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 Episo…

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 di…

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 …

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 throug…