Basketball Player Card Profiles

Tier logic

Legacy-player profiles are not young-player upside boards. The score starts with permanent hobby stature, then rewards full card-catalog depth, proven sales strength, closed-catalog protection, liquidity, and whether today's pricing still leaves collectors room to be right.

Scoring weights

Legacy gravity

25

This is the permanent all-era pull of the player. It rewards names the hobby will keep circling back to even after short-term market cycles cool off.

Card-catalog strength

22

This measures the full important-card ecosystem: rookies where they matter, plus flagship, premium, autograph, insert, refractor, patch-auto, logoman, and grail lanes collectors still respect.

Market proof

18

This rewards real top-end sale proof, repeatable auction/private-sale evidence, and cards that have already shown they can clear serious money.

Closed-catalog protection

17

This rewards card ecosystems that are hard to recreate or dilute: deceased players, locked autograph supply, vintage scarcity, retired product eras, and iconic non-rookie issues that future releases cannot replace.

Liquidity breadth

10

This asks how many important cards across different price levels are easy to comp, easy to explain, and genuinely sellable to a deep buyer pool.

Price discipline

8

This is not a popularity score. It rewards names where collectors can still be right from here instead of paying full freight for history everybody already agrees on.