Find grading targets with the new Profit Evaluator

Every whuppit user now has access to the all-new Profit Evaluator to help you identify the most profitable targets for your raw-to-grade plays.

I've always wanted whuppit to be able to help people throughout the entire raw to grade process. So far, the focus has been primarily on help you stay on top of your inventory and have detailed reporting to help you learn what works well and what doesn't. But there's still actually selling the card and finding the right cards to grade in the first place.

The Profit Evaluator is the first step towards helping you find better raw-to-grade targets.

The evaluator is based on some calculations I've been using the for the past year or so to help me identify good targets for grading. It looks at grading breakdown, alongside card value, to help calculate the Profit Efficiency Factor (PEF), a measurement of how efficient your investment is (higher is better). It also provides you with how much money you would need to invest in that card to get $1,000 profit (just another way for you to gauge efficiency) and the gem rate you would personally need to be profitable.

To use the evaluator, you start by searching for the card you are considering targeting for grading purposes. The tool will search across PSA's entire graded population and retrieve a breakdown of how commonly each grade is given for that card.

From there, you can enter in the approximate value of the card at each grade level. The tool will use those values, alongside the grading data, to calculate the profit/loss at each grade, and the likelihood you are to get each grade. It then uses that to determine how efficient a card is.

Let's go through a couple quick examples to compare.

This year's Prizm release has a very low gem rate, which has (so far) put a little extra premium on the PSA 10's. At the moment (March 10, 2025), searching for the card reveals:

Looking at recent comps (I recommend a tool like Market Movers, 130point or CardLadder), the value of the card is:

Plugging those numbers into the evaluator (personally I use the raw value for 7 or below, only because I expect I can safely weed those out and re-sell raw for a similar price to what I paid), I get a Profit Efficiency Factor of .493. Put another way, we would need to spend about $2,027 between the cards and grading fees to make a $1,000 profit.

That's a pretty low score. While the premium on a 10 is very high, I would need to be really confident and accurate in my pre-grade assessments for this to be a play I would want to aggressively make.

Let's look at another popular quarterback: Drake Maye. Jayden is in a class of his own in terms of market at the moment, so his PSA 10's are significantly more valuable than Maye's, but let's take a look at the actual data for Maye to see how his silver stacks up.

Search for that card in the Profit Evaluator, we see it actually grades slightly better than Jayden's card:

While his cards are worth quite a bit less than Jayden's, the 10 premium is still really high:

Plugging these numbers into the profit evaluator (again, I'll use raw value for anything less than a PSA 7), we get a PEF of 1.597. We would only need to spend $626 to get a $1,000 profit.

Even though Jayden's cards are worth much more, Drake Maye's silvers are (currently) a much more efficient grading target.

The evaluator is live now for all paid whuppit users. My hope is that it helps you identify solid grading targets, so you can improve your profits.

Stay tuned for more improvements to help make sourcing and selling cards much easier soon.