The value of the Paul Skenes baseball card everyone is trying to pull is not exactly known. The main value driver for this card is the two season tickets behind home plate for 30 years. We can do the basic math on that. It won’t be the true value but it’ll get us in the ballpark.
So we have two season tickets and there are what, 81 home games?
Okay so that’s 162, 162 times the Ticketmaster price of $400 for home plate tickets, and that gets us… $64,800 a year in tickets.
Now lets multiply that by the duration, 30 years, and we get… $1,944,000.
Um what?
Did I miss something? This card is carrying a value of nearly $2,000,000 in tickets?
It may even be more with the price inflation ballpark tickets will experience over 30 years. That can’t be right. Even if tickets were only $200, that would still make this a $1,000,000 card. Tickets at $100, that’d make it a $500,000 card. So regardless of which number we’re picking the value of the Paul Skenes baseball card is ridiculous.
So my math has to be wrong somewhere. Maybe I miscounted the home games, or Ticketmaster is a liar… I don’t know. All I can say is that the Paul Skenes card is worth a lot in general and we’ll nail down the true value as we get closer to someone actually pulling the card. And you know there are even a couple more perks that will boost the cards value, like a softball game at the park.
Anyway my bet is someone pulls it out of a nicely wrapped Chrome Update box on Christmas Day.