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What do you do regarding players that have more than one base moment? I've found that whilst players with one S1base and one MGLE tend to have a base cap thats roughly 1.6--1.9x the MLG cap, players with more than one base moment are a lot closer to parity with the MGLE prices on each particular base set moment, and what to do with this confuses me. Thanks in advance and good post. I've kept an eye on this for a while and its been a good trading quantifier.

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I think there are two other factors behind Kleber's valuation, which might contribute to the elevated price: 1) He's a foreign born player, I'd be curious to see whether there is a correlation between European (or other origins) and inflated prices as there is an expectation in the community that these players have a broader market; and 2) Kleber was the first moment ever minted by Top Shot (https://topshotexplorer.com/sets/2), at least some of the owners of this moment (myself included) are betting on the novelty of it increasing its long term value. Please keep up the work, enjoying it!

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Hi Taylor -- any analysis on the "relative value" of investing of:

1) S1 vs S2?

2) any Base moment vs. any other Base moment in the same series? For example, the S2 LeBron 7.5K vs the S2 LeBron 15K? For long-term collectors, will the 1st issue in any given season start to outstrip the value of the subsequent issues? Would you go for a double-digit serial in a 35K edition or a 4-digit serial for a 7.5K edition in the same series?

Thanks!

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How can I see who each of those dots represent?

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Hey Taylor - loved this article, thanks for the analysis. What did you use to pull the data? Were you scraping cryptoslam with R? I'm OK with R but bad with scraping so trying to figure out how I can get the data to run some analysis. Thanks again!

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