How it’s built
- Take asking prices from Yuyu-tei, a Japanese card shop, for single cards in each set on one date.
- Divide the top card's price, and the middle price of the top rarity, by the official pack price. The top card ranges from 19 to 349 packs' worth.
What we assumed
- One shop's asking prices stand for the market.Asking prices are not sales, and only one shop was used. The research gives no check against completed sales.
- Sets of different ages can be compared.They cannot really: prices fall after launch, and the sets range from 46 days to over three years old. Comparisons within a set are safer.
Sanity check
The money above list price goes to shops and resellers, not The Pokémon Company. The ratios also say nothing about how often each card turns up in packs.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- 16300/290=56.2
- 980/550=1.8
- 10390/180=57.7
- 59800/180=332.2
- 69800/200=349.0
- 6980/360=19.4
- 30/36=0.833
- 30/40=0.75
- 10390/30=346.3
- 1130/30=37.7
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