Nick Allen
SS · Sugar Land Space Cowboys · Sugar Land Space Cowboys · Triple-A · 27.0y · #6482 of 7,942 we rate
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- The player
- LONG SHOT
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Watch
18 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
6 cards of his are listed and nothing comparable has verifiably sold, so we will not tell you whether the asks are fair.
Nobody has logged a completed sale for this card, so we can't say what it's worth.
Our take
Long-shot prospect, untested market.
Nick Allen scores 18 out of 100 (#6482 of the 7,942 we score), and the case rests on one thing: contact: plus — 14.3% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 88% at his level.
Nothing of his has verifiably sold in 90 days and there is no benchmark price, so we will not tell you what his cards are worth.
Cards of his are listed and none of them can be priced against a confirmed sale, so any judgment about value today would be a guess dressed as a number.
The thing most likely to be wrong here: small sample — 7 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
The signal
Plate discipline: well below
0.0% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Contact: plus
14.3% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 88% at his level.
Premium position
SS — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
What the hobby pays up for
Little power for his level (9th percentile); SS is a position the hobby pays up for.
Why now
No catalyst right now — no promotion, no logged step change, and no measurable move in his card prices. This is a valuation-driven watch rather than a timing one.
What could go wrong
Small sample
7 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
Nothing has sold
No confirmed sale of any card of his in 90 days, so nothing on this page can tell you what a fair price is.
Modeled value only
The fair values shown for his live cards are arithmetic from related evidence, not confirmed sales of the exact card.
What the hobby pays for him
A benchmark is the one standardized card we track a player's market on, so every player's price means the same thing.
Benchmark not yet established — no 1st Bowman vehicle observed for this player. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
The card that matters
A card-quality answer, not a price one. It does not change when a seller changes their mind.
Canonical card not established — We have not assigned him a benchmark card yet, so there is no canonical answer to give. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
Best value right now
Where the money would go today, which is frequently a lesser card than the one above — or nowhere.
Insufficient market evidence
Nothing of his has confirmed sold, so there is no value to measure against. Among the asks alone, No base auto listed — cheapest numbered option shown; premium ratio unavailable. That is a comparison of sellers, not evidence of what these are worth, and it rests on the print-run assumption rather than measured premiums.
What would make this a buy
- On his best-priced card: past the window.
- A promotion, or a stretch that lifts the season line, would move the player side of this.
What is for sale right now
6 cards of his are listed, 1 held back on condition or a broken price · 0 of the 5 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 5 worth looking at, best first.
2018 Bowman Chrome Nick Allen Refractor Auto 1st BC (BCPA-NA) (#290/499)
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 405d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 117h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$11.98
modeled ~$5.00
WATCH
2018 Bowman Chrome HTA Gold Shimmer Refractor 18/50 Nick Allen PSA 9 Auto 04hd
/50 · PSA 9 · listed 6d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$126.08
no sold price
WATCH
2018 Bowman Chrome Prospect HTA Blue Mojo Refractor 148/150 Nick Allen Auto 4d3
/150 · raw · condition not stated · listed 6d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$40.32
modeled ~$3.99
WATCH
2018 Bowman Chrome Prospect HTA Blue Mojo Refractor 22/150 Nick Allen Auto 8k4
/150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 1d
Not a core card · 5 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$33.00
modeled ~$3.99
PASS
NICK ALLEN 2018 Bowman Chrome REFRACTOR AUTO SN# 282/499 OAKLAND ATHLETICS
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 1d
Not a core card · 5 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
—
modeled ~$5.00
PASS
What the same money buys today
Nothing of his is worth buying right now. These live cards from other players are the ones we rate as a buy or a watch at the same budget — not a view on Nick Allen, just what the money can do today.
- Alessander De La Cruzbase$9.99Watch23% under fair value
Compared within $5.99–$12.58, about what his own cheapest card costs. Ranked on the price-blind investment score among the 60 live listings we had scored — a read on what we scanned, not on the whole market.
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder2 versions of his cards in raw autos, each priced off its own confirmed sales
Every version of his cards we can see, base to 1/1. Each rung is priced off its own confirmed sales — a rung nothing has verifiably sold at shows no value rather than borrowing a neighbour's.
Showing Raw autos.
NO CLEAR SWEET SPOT
No rung of his has a confirmed sale behind it, so there is no price to compare any step against.
- Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $11.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $11.98 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Blue Mojo Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $33.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $33.00 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +176%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
1 listing sits in a different grade class or auto status and is kept off this ladder — a slabbed sale is not evidence about a raw card.
What he is good atSkills 45 on the 20–80 scale, against 741 hitters at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 45 / 80
On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 741 hitters at Triple-A — measured against real players at the same level right now — not a scout's projection of what he becomes.
Contact
Can he hit it?
62
plus · better than 88% at his level
14.3% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
37
well below · better than 9% at his level
.000 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
35
well below · better than 7% at his level
0.0% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
44
below average · better than 29% at his level
0 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
29
bottom of the scale · better than 2% at his level · the result, not a skill
.000 OPS
on-base plus slugging — the result, which carries the luck as well as the skill
Age for the level
Is he doing it young?
47
average · better than 38% at his level · context, not a skill
-1.0y vs his level
years younger than the median player at his level — positive is young for the level
The overall figure averages the 4 skill rows only. The box-score row and the age row are shown but deliberately left out of it — one is the result those skills produced, and the other is not a skill at all.
The argument
skills at the 33th percentile of the cohort, production at the 2th — his tools run further ahead of his results than 92% of the players he is measured against.
The market prices the stat line, and his is behind what he is doing. That is where a card is cheap for a reason that can change.
How this is read: his skills average 33 and his production sits at 2, a gap of +31. That gap on its own means little — an average of several percentiles always sits nearer the middle than a single one — so it is ranked against the same figure computed the same way for the 740 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 92th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 6.0 / 10
- already at Triple-A
- old for Triple-A
This is an ordering score, not a percentage. We hold no outcome data and have run no backtest, so “a 93% chance of reaching the majors” would be a number we made up and you then spent money on. Built on 76% of what it wants to know — missing production, form.
How he is playingThe Triple-A line, and how it compares with last season
Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 741 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
PA
7
AVG
.000
OBP
.000
SLG
.000
OPS
.000
better than 2%
HR
0
SB
0
BB%
0.0
K%
14.3
What his cards have sold forno completed sales logged yet
Real completed sales only — nothing here is an estimate. These come from the scan: it asks eBay about listings it has already seen, and one that ends at a fixed price is recorded as a sale. That builds up over days. You can add one by hand below if you happen to know it, but you are not meant to be the price database.
No sales logged yet. We need at least two to draw a line, and about five spread over a month before the numbers mean much. Add sales you find using the button below.
The whole live market6 listed · 0 eBay-verified
- Listings
- 6
- Lowest seen
- $11.98
- Median ask
- $36.66
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $11.98
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $11.98
0 eBay-verified
What this page is missing1 thing we do not hold for him
What this page is missing
Everything above is built from what we actually hold. These are the gaps, so you know which parts of the argument are thin rather than wondering why a panel is quiet.
- We do not have a sold price in 90 days — add one and the whole price side fills in.
Worth reading for this player
- Parallel scarcity calculator — numbered parallels of his cards are in play, and print run drives the premium
- Best Offer calculator — at least one of his live listings accepts offers
- Certified vs aftermarket autographs — signed cards of his are listed, and the two kinds are not worth the same
- Parallels and print runs — his market includes numbered parallels, which are priced off the print run