UFC · UFC Lightweight · LW · age 26 · about a year
Quillan Salkilld is one of 82 player entries in The Card Investor. Age 26, listed at LW, currently with UFC Lightweight — filed under UFC.
Accessibility of 65 is what makes this interesting. The hobby hasn't priced the story in yet, and that is the only condition under which a high upside score is actually worth something to a buyer rather than to whoever already owns the cards.
Breakout (92) and card upside (90) sit close together, which is the straightforward case: if the performance arrives, the cards should follow it rather than shrug.
Set against all 80 breakout picks scored here, its breakout of 92 ranks 6th of 80, card upside 90 ranks 17th, accessibility 65 ranks 28th, and risk 28 is the 19th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Jacobe Smith, which scores 52 and 80 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
A one-year horizon means you're betting on a single body of work — one season, essentially. That's a much narrower bet than a career, and it should be sized like one.
Risk is scored 28, toward the low end of anything in the tool. Low risk in trading cards is still not low risk in any sense your bank would recognise — it means the identifiable ways for this to go wrong are fewer, not that they're absent.
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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