SLABIQ · METHODOLOGY
Seed book, not a live feed.
SlabIQ is scarcity intelligence for graded cards. This deployment is an in-repo seed book dated 2026-05-15. Prices, pops, desk notes, chase calls, and futures priors are illustrative. They are not a live market. SlabIQ does not scrape PSA or any grader.
GemRate is future bootstrap only. It is not connected on this site. It is never a primary key. There is no cert id in this book. Canonical field is camelCase slabId — a player-year-set-variant slug (e.g. mj-1986-fleer-base). Not a cert. Not a GemRate id. Routes are /card/{slabId}.
Pop arrows are inverted on purpose. Red ▲ = gem pop growing (bearish supply). Green ■/▼ = pop flat or falling. Player-grid NET POP VEL uses the mean of that player's cards — the same number as the glyph. FLAGSHIP POP VEL is the flagship card only and can differ (e.g. Jordan flagship 0.00/d vs net +0.28/d).
Resub HIGH is an AND-gate: PSA 9/10 pop ratio ≥ 8 and fee ratio ≥ 3×. riskAdjGain / $100 fee, where riskAdjGain = (PSA10−PSA9)×0.30 − $100. Not a market ROI. That is the only RESUB trigger. Else STABLE. Negative fee ratio is STABLE.
PLAYER COMPOSITE is the mean of card composites. CARD COMPOSITE is per slabId. 0–100 seed score: PPR %ile 0.25 + PPR vel 0.25 + sub pressure 0.20 + grade compression 0.15 + catalyst 0.15
T0 gap is a classifier on this seed (gap% and PPR ratio). It is not a live buy list. Desk BUY/STOP/futures copy is illustrative on this seed.
Cigar City Slabs is the shop. SlabIQ is not a marketplace yet. Founder: Nathan Foster.