The median basketball break we tracked sold 76 spots. The median show sold 143 lots at roughly 73 lots an hour. Here is how those numbers vary and what to do with them.
We grouped sold lots into breaks: lots in the same show sharing one listing title once the spot number is removed. Counting the 111 groups with five or more sold spots, the median break sold 76 spots. A quarter sold 35 or fewer, a quarter 100.5 or more, and the biggest lists in the top tenth sold 242 or more. Most of those very large lists were full-checklist player breaks whose median spot sold for under$20.
Format matters. Team breaks we tracked sold a median of 32 spots, close to one per NBA team (10 breaks). Player breaks sold a median of 100 (21 breaks).
| 25th pct | Median | 75th pct | Median gross per break | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All breaks (n=111) | 35 | 76 | 100.5 | $7,921 |
| Team breaks (n=10) | 24.8 | 32 | 34.5 | $3,367 |
| Player breaks (n=21) | 91 | 100 | 242 | $6,174 |
Across 59 basketball shows with at least one captured sale, the median show sold 143 lots, with the middle half between 56.5 and 266. The median show ran 2 breaks. Restricting to the 45 shows we captured for an hour or more, the median rises to 180 lots across 3 breaks.
| All shows (n=59) | 60+ min captured (n=45) | |
|---|---|---|
| Median lots sold | 143 | 180 |
| Median breaks per show | 2 | 3 |
| Median captured length (minutes) | 98 | 153 |
| Median lots per hour | 73 | 71.1 |
| Median distinct buyers | 34 | 43 |
The median show sold roughly 73 lots per captured hour. That pace held for longer shows too (71.1 an hour in the 45 longer captures). The faster shows, in the top quarter, ran at 111.5 an hour or more. A 100-spot list at the median pace takes roughly 82 minutes to sell through, before any time spent opening product.
A break only works if the room can fill it at a fair price. If a typical show of yours has around 34 buyers, the median in our data, a list of 76 spots asks each of them to buy two or more spots on average. A team break around 30 spots asks for less than one each.
Start with the size your room fills comfortably, track your gross per break, then grow the list once spots start selling above your target price. More spots at lower prices is not automatically more money; in our data, a show's gross followed average spot price more closely than lot count. See how much a break makes for that comparison.
Every figure on this page comes from 59 basketball breaks from 17 Whatnot sellers that Whaler tracked from September 9 to September 29, 2026 (7 capture days): 10,734 sold lots, 1,530 buyers and $1,824,913 in captured sales. Each lot is one sold spot or item with its final price and buyer. These are the breaks we tracked, not the whole Whatnot market, so treat them as benchmarks from real basketball shows rather than platform-wide averages.
Captured totals are lower bounds: a capture can start after a show begins or stop before it ends. Medians are used throughout because a handful of very large shows and buyers pull averages up. Sample sizes are stated next to each number.
Whaler records each spot, price and buyer in your Whatnot shows, so you can size the next break from your own results.