Dapper Labs has three giant sports NFT platforms on its popular Flow blockchain. While there are some similarities between the three, there are some quirks which make each one stand on their own. NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, and UFC Strike all enable you to flex your fandom with highlight moments from NBA, NFL, and UFC events.
Evaluate.Market supports analyzing all of these platforms for collectors to choose their favorite moments, and evaluate their portfolios. Moments are hand-picked and customized with different rarity tiers for collectors. But what really makes these platforms unique from each other?
Marketplaces
While all three product marketplaces work seamlessly, they all have differences. The NBA Top Shot marketplace was built a couple years ago as a native marketplace to Top Shot. It has evolved over time to show more sales and listings stats to help collectors choose the right moment for them. Each moment on the Top Shot marketplace also has a direct link to Evaluate.Market for further data deep dives.
On all three marketplaces, you can only sell individual moments with fixed price listings, and sales funds go directly to Dapper Wallet. NBA Top Shot has alluded to adding offers as a marketplace feature, but this hasn’t taken place yet. Top Shot is the only marketplace of the three where collectors can purchase moments using other cryptocurrencies, eventually including Flow.
On NFL All Day, the marketplace shows the moment rarity level, any applicable badges, lowest ask and more. There are plenty of filters to search through to find what you’re looking for. The listing pages themselves make it easy to buy moments with one click. The NFL All Day marketplace is powered by Gaia, which also powers marketplaces for other Flow projects like Ballerz and Flunks.
UFC Strike marketplace has minimal filtering at the moment, so it’s not possible to filter by player name or moment type. However, there is a search function to make finding what you need easier. The rarity level of the moment is also not clear unless you are familiar with the moment’s color indicating it. The listing pages themselves make it easy to buy moments.
Moments
All three platforms show highlight clips of a certain play type. NBA Top Shot shows some key details of the moment at the beginning and end of each clip, including the player name, team, play type, date, player number, and set name. Top Shot moments are normally various angles of the same short play, on repeat. Top Shot only has moments for players, not teams. Moments have badges that indicate if they are rookie moments, from a championship year, Top Shot debut, and more. They also have moments as far back as the 1990s of players who are no longer playing in the NBA.
NFL All Day moments show key details of the moment at the beginning and end of each clip. These are the player name, team, player number, player position, game date, game final score, and set name if applicable. NFL moments normally show 2 to 3 angles of the play, depending how long the play is. Moments have badges that indicate rookies, All Day debuts, and more. NFL All Day does have moments for teams as well as individual players. They have moments that go back to the 1990s of players who are no longer playing in the NFL.
UFC Strike moments show the length of the clip in seconds, the fight date, and the fight number all right on the moment itself. This information stays up for the entire duration of each moment. There are currently no badges available for UFC Strike moments.
Rarity Tiers
All of the platforms have a tier setup for rarity levels, and each of them also have sets and various edition sizes. NBA Top Shot has Common, Fandom, Rare, Legendary for the tiers which can be purchased on the marketplace. Ultimate tier also exists, and it’s broken down by Genesis (1/1) and Platinum Ice (3/3). These are only available by auction. NFL All Day has Common, Rare, Legendary, and Ultimate tiers available on their marketplace. Finally, UFC Strike has Fandom, Contender, Challenger, Champion, and Ultimate available.
Evaluate Market offers filtering by Rarity for collectors to easily sort through moments for sale.
Pack Dynamics
Pack opening is one of the most exhilarating and fun parts of all of these platforms. Nothing like landing a pack, ripping it open, blasting the music and finding out what’s hidden inside!
Collectors can keep NBA Top Shot packs closed and collect them, but unopened packs cannot be transferred or sold. This is a feature that Top Shot has suggested they will add in the future, but there is no estimated time frame for this. Top Shot moments are hidden until you click on each of them, or you can use the “reveal all” button.
There is no way to replay a Top Shot pack opening, but you can see the contents of your packs in the “purchased packs” section of the packs collection page. During a pack opening, you also have the option to screen record it to later share it with fellow fans.
On NFL All Day, you can replay pack openings by viewing your packs page and click “replay pack open” to re-live the excitement. To open a pack, you need to “Claim and Open,” unlike Top Shot where it just says “Open.” The pack opening process can take a moment to execute on the blockchain, sometimes up to 10 minutes. Similar to Top Shot, moments in packs are hidden until you click on them individually, or you can click “reveal all.” Unopened packs cannot be sold or transferred at this time.
UFC Strike packs reveal all moments at once, so you don’t currently have the option to click through each one to reveal individually. Like Top Shot and NFL All Day, you may keep packs closed, but cannot currently sell or transfer them. There isn’t a way to replay pack openings or see which moments came from which packs.
Summary
Evaluate.Market has powerful tools for these platforms for collectors to snipe deals and analyze sales trends. NBA Top Shot is the platform which has been around the longest, so it has naturally evolved and improved in many ways throughout the years. NFL All Day and UFC Strike marketplaces are newer, and have more room for new features to be added. But no matter what, the fun of the pack opening process for all three platforms remains as addicting as ever.
Differences Between NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day and UFC Strike
Great article @corporatetrash1 except it says "All three platforms show highlight clips (without the sound)" when we know that @UFCStrikeNFT does in fact have audio. Just don't anyone new being confused by this