Four Touchdowns later...
Aidan O'Connell had himself a night and collector's noticed.
I always find the little spikes and valleys in card values fascinating.
Through the first 7 games of Aidan O’Connell’s career, he hadn’t flashed much in the way of big potential. He’s a rookie quarterback, and that’s a tough position to play well right out of the gate. He had a decent, if unspectacular, game in week 12 against the Chiefs, but coming into last night’s game, O’Connell had yet to through multiple touchdown’s in any game. Pair that with his low draft capital (round four) and collector’s didn’t have much interest.
Last night, however, Aidan threw four touchdown’s in the first half against the Chargers. The impact on both the value and sales volume for his cards was immediate.
Here are the total number of sales, and sales price for his Mosaic Base and Mosaic Silver on the 13th
Mosaic Base: 1 sale, $0.99
Mosaic Silver: 1 sale, $4.24
Here are the total number of sales and sales price for each card on the 14th (keep in mind this was a night game):
Mosaic Base: 3 sales, $2.41 average (144% increase)
Mosaic Silver: 13 sales, $9.33 average (120% increase)
The chart1 since the start of the week is um….pretty dramatic (particularly for the silver).
I do think in general we’re a bit too quick to write off young players, so we’ll see how long this interest, and Aidan’s starting role, sticks.