Overview
UltraBall is a pricing and market-data platform for English Pokémon trading cards, indexing 20,903 cards across 185 sets from the 1999 Base Set to unreleased Mega Evolution products. It consolidates ungraded prices, graded values, completed sales and live eBay listings in one queryable interface. Its audience is collectors, resellers, graders and set completists who need traceable numbers rather than anecdotal forum pricing.
Key Features
- Dual pricing ladders — each card page separates the raw ungraded value from graded values, with a four-week change and a price history chart.
- Grader-specific data — PSA, CGC, BGS, SGC and TAG figures are never blended; each is scoped to one grader and grade with its own sales records.
- Sales-backed evidence — 925,164 sales tracked over a rolling 90-day window and matched to the exact card, with active listings held apart from completed transactions.
- Confidence and liquidity marks — every price reports how many copies sold, how recently, and how readily that condition trades; thin evidence is labelled rather than hidden.
- Market indexes — Vintage (196.6) and Modern (80.7) benchmarks, the UltraBall 100, most-traded rankings, record sales and a ticker of 90-day volume leaders.
- Identification tooling — search by name, set or collector number, a set-symbol identifier, nickname lookup for cards such as Moonbreon or Van Gogh Pikachu, an AI card grader and a centering checker.
- Grading and selling calculators — pre-submission tools that model whether a raw card justifies slabbing and what a sale nets after fees.
- Buying workflow — filtered eBay deals, Sniper for capped-bid auctions, Slab Hunter for raw cards worth grading, price-drop and new-listing feeds, watchlists and alerts.
- Collection modules — collection tracker, set-completion progress, daily challenge, fantasy portfolio with leaderboards and a pack simulator, all payable in 30 currencies.
Use Cases
- Collectors cataloguing an inherited or loft-stored binder can price single cards and test whether a printing variant changes the figure.
- Sellers evaluate grading costs against the graded premium using the calculator plus the hardest-PSA-10 and low-population reports.
- Buyers and flippers mine deal, auction and price-drop feeds for listings under market, capping bids with Sniper.
- Set completists track gaps through checklists and completion views covering all 185 English sets.
- Market watchers follow the indexes and most-traded lists to read momentum across vintage and modern segments.
