April 2022 WNBA Cards PSA POP Count Update

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Howdy! Bad news. I was wrong.

Last month you were told that peak WNBA card slabbing had subsided. I was wrong.

Output roared back in April, doubling from March lows to almost 700 slabs. The bulk of this output was ultra modern, but there were also large increases in the POP counts of the W25 PSA set registry cards thanks to at least one enterprising collector.

While select “older” WNBA cards saw large growth in POP count, the 2020 Panini Prizm WNBA set continues to drive the majority of the overall growth.

There are now over 7,300 2020 Prizm WNBA cards in PSA slabs.

Over 7,300 Prizm WNBA Cards in PSA slabs

This is simply a mind-boggling number.

Especially since two years ago there weren’t this many WNBA cards in total in PSA slabs.

It will be interesting to see how the market absorbs this amount of new inventory given there are more new slabs hitting the market than are being sold in public.

Here’s how the top WNBA sets landed.

Rank	Set	POP Count	Growth
1	2020 Panini Prizm WNBA	7,321	3%
2	1997 Pinnacle Inside	3,990	1%
3	1999 Hoops	1,995	0%
4	2000 SkyBox Dominion WNBA	1,057	<1%
5	2000 Fleer Ultra WNBA	995	<1%
6	1999 Fleer Ultra WNBA	952	<1%
7	2019 Panini Donruss WNBA	730	6%
8	1998 Pinnacle WNBA	356	<1%
9	2001 Fleer Tradition WNBA	342	<1%
10	2001 Fleer Ultra WNBA	229	<1%

PSA Registry Set Cards See Big Growth

As I mentioned above, a number of WNBA rookie cards on the PSA registry set saw large POP count increases.

Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Maya Moore, and Nneka Owgumike all saw their rookie cards rise over 30% from March, the biggest jumps since I began recording data over two years ago.

For the most part POP counts are still pretty low compared to other sports, but large increases in short periods of time typically end up driving down pricing as a result of increased supply.

It will be interesting to see during next months top eBay sales how the increases impacted the sales for said cards.

Rank	Card	POP Count
1	2020 Prizm Sabrina Ionescu	1,957
2	1997 Pinnacle Inside Sheryl Swoopes	887
3	1997 Pinnacle Inside Cynthia Cooper	801
4	1997 Pinnacle Inside Lisa Leslie	626
5	2020 Prizm Satou Sabally	205
6	1997 Pinnacle Inside Rebecca Lobo	161
7	1999 Ultra Chamique Holdsclaw	144
8	2000 Fleer Ultra Becky Hammon	125
9	1997 Pinnacle Inside Tina Thompson	123
10	2004 Ultra Diana Taurasi	117
11	2002 Ultra Sue Bird	77
12	2002 Authentix Sue Bird	75
13	1999 Ultra Katie Smith	75
14	1999 Ultra Dawn Staley	67
15	1999 Ultra Yolanda Griffith	66
16	2001 Ultra Tamika Catchings	61
17	2016 Rittenhouse Breanna Stewart	44
18	2001 Ultra Lauren Jackson	41
19	2008 Rittenhouse Candace Parker	39
20	2002 Ultra Swin Cash	36
21	2018 Rittenhouse A’ja WIlson	32
22	2011 Rittenhouse Maya Moore	32
23	2013 Rittenhouse Brittney Griner	29
24	2013 Rittenhouse Elena Delle Donne	27
25	2006 Rittenhouse Seimone Augustus	26
26	2011 Rittenhouse Courtney Vandersloot	26
27	2006 Rittenhouse Cappie Pondexter	25
28	2008 Rittenhouse Sylvia Fowles	24
29	2010 Rittenhouse Tina Charles	21
30	2002 Authentix Swin Cash	20
31	2013 Rittenhouse Skylar Diggins	17
32	2011 Rittenhouse Liz Cambage	12
33	2012 Rittenhouse Nneka Owgumike	11
34	2016 Rittenhouse Jonquel Jones	10
35	2017 Rittenhouse Kelsey Plum	8