basketball · Washington Wizards · SF · age 19 · about two years
AJ Dybantsa is one of 77 player entries in The Card Investor. Age 19, listed at SF, currently with Washington Wizards — filed under basketball.
At 85, accessibility is unusually good for something scored this highly elsewhere. Cards like that don't stay accessible forever, which is the argument for looking now rather than later.
Card upside (84) sits above the breakout score (76), which is the rarer shape. It means the cards look primed to react even though the step up in performance is less certain — usually because market size, playing style or an existing collector base is doing work the stat line isn't.
Set against the 11 basketball breakout picks scored here, its breakout of 76 ranks 5th of 11, card upside 84 ranks 6th, accessibility 85 ranks 1st, and risk 50 is the 8th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Yves Missi, which scores 56 and 74 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
Two years gives the situation time to develop past its first impression, which is usually when the price is set by whoever shouted loudest. It also means two years of not touching it, including through the stretch where it looks wrong.
A risk score of 50 means ordinary risk — the failure modes are the boring ones, which is also why they're easy to talk yourself out of worrying about.
You can realistically find AJ Dybantsa cards at the card aisle at Walmart or Target, a local card shop, a card show and online.
This is common enough to turn up on a big-box shelf, so the retail aisle is worth checking before anywhere else — it is the only venue on this list where you are not buying from a reseller.
Show tables and online listings are where individual cards change hands, so those two are always open to you. What varies is whether a shop or a retail pack is a sensible way in as well.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: how to spot a breakout before the cards move.
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