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About

Built by a flipper, not a price guide.

Hi, I’m Paul Hickey. I’ve made money flipping sports cards with data since 2020 — and Hobby Flipper is the tool I built to do it.

Paul Hickey

How we got here.

1988

Starts collecting

A kid with a shoebox of cards. Collects hard through the junk-wax years.

’95

The long hiatus (’95–’20)

Career, family, life. The cards stay in the closet for 25 years.

2020

Back in — with data

Re-enters a hobby with tens of thousands of parallels per rookie and learns the hard way that only a handful make money. Starts flipping singles with data. Launches NoOffseason.com and the Sports Card Strategy Show.

2026

Hobby Flipper

Builds the tool he wished he’d had: only the top cards, ranked by ROI, with the play spelled out.

When I came back to the hobby in 2020 the landscape had changed. Not only were there more sets and releases, there were dozens — sometimes hundreds — of parallel versions of the same base card. Each rookie had the potential to have tens of thousands of different rookie cards.

Take it from me: only a handful of rookie cards for the top players in each sport are actually valuable, and have the repeatable peaks and valleys you can buy low and sell high, year after year.

After using every other sports card data tool out there, I built one that doesn’t try to add the most cards. It focuses only on the cards that make you money, cuts out the crap, and tells you the play. Market Movers and Card Ladder are great price guides. Hobby Flipper isn’t a price guide.

Stop gambling on wax. Flip singles with data.

Three rules behind every ranking in the tool.

01

Right card. Right player. Right time.

Only the cards with repeatable peaks and valleys — and the calendar markers that tell you when to buy in and when to sell out.

02

Data over hype.

Real eBay closing data, not influencer takes. If the sales history doesn’t support the play, it isn’t a play.

03

Singles, not wax.

Breaks and boxes are a bet — long-time breakers will tell you 60–70% of what you put in is gone. Flipping singles is a plan.

The NoOffseason family.

Three things Paul runs. One philosophy.

NoOffseason.com

NoOffseason.com

The premium membership: Formula Rankings, Card Analyzer & Predictor, grading dashboard, Sports Card School, the premium podcast — and Hobby Flipper free for a year.

Visit NoOffseason.com →
Sports Card Strategy Show

Sports Card Strategy Show

The podcast. Weekly plays, market reads and member questions answered — there is no offseason.

Listen →
HobbyFlipper.com

Hobby Flipper

The tool. Historical sales data for the top cards only, turned into buy, grade and sell plays. You’re here.

See the features →

What members say.

My last PSA submission — 50 cards — had a total ROI of 132%. Make data-driven decisions and you’ll see measurable change in your ROI.

— Chad R.

Seriously, Hobby Flipper is next level. It’s a full-blown game changer and it’s just so, so good.

— Aaron M.

Now I can hit all the time by locking in on hard data, instead of just getting lucky.

— Shayd R.

Very good data and tracking of portfolio and potential additions.

— Brian H.

Spending more and more time in Hobby Flipper every day, and I absolutely love it.

— Steve B.

I live in the rankings page and use the analyzer tool all the time.

— Dan K.

Thanks to No Offseason I can see the light at the end of the tunnel — I’m on pace to do over $20K on eBay this year.

— Patrick O.

My son is currently top 10 in the Flipper Rankings and we’re loving this hobby we have to share together. Thank you for helping us make it something sustainable.

— Matt W.

Your content and advice has helped me go from a degenerate breaker to shrewd card investor.

— Steve Buckingham

I was struggling in this hobby before I found your podcast. Now I have created a sizable return monthly. So thankful!

— Chad Rose

Questions? Ask Paul.

Email paul@hobbyflipper.com.

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