Shaquille O'neal
1998 Topps Chrome Shaquille O'neal Refractor
- Set
- Topps Chrome
- Year
- 1998
- Number
- 175
- Grade
- PSA 9
- Cert number
- 141135822
- Variant
- Refractor
- Parallel
- Refractor
- Manufacturer
- Topps
- Sport
- basketball
- Owner
- CatchBack Vaults
- Pack pool
- Available in packs
Goes with this
No honest pairing for Shaquille O'neal: nothing we hold shares a set run, an evolution line, a grade ladder or a player with it inside $126-$1,578. Better to buy it on its own than to bolt on an unrelated slab.
Buy it outright. Shaquille O'neal is $631 on the marketplace. Its best pack route is the Hall of Fame Pack at $1,000, where it sits in the $500-$750 band — that band hits 50.00% of the time and we count 7 cards in it, so this one slab is at most a 7.143% pull. That works out to 14 packs, or about $14,000, to land this specific card — and that is the optimistic end, because the real pool is larger than the 7 cards we can see. Packs are the wrong tool for a named card.
| Tier | Ticket | Band | Band odds | Expected spend for this card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Pack | $50 | the $400-$800 band | 0.20% | $525,000+ |
| Elite Pack | $100 | the $600-$1,000 band | 1.00% | $200,000+ |
| Legendary Pack | $500 | the $500-$750 band | 15.00% | $23,333+ |
| Hall of Fame Pack | $1,000 | the $500-$750 band | 50.00% | $14,000+ |
Per-card chance = band probability / cards counted in that band's pool. Our pool data is a sample, so the per-card chance is an upper bound and the expected spend is a lower bound.
