What is the Collectrio number?

What it measures

On Cards, collectors assign Sleeve, Swap, and Store in each trio. On Pokémon GO, they assign Train, Trade, and Transfer. Those comparisons feed a public relative score so you can see keep-or-move priority without converting anything into cash.

Higher or lower on the board means stronger or weaker relative priority in that crowd sample on that lens — not a sale quote. Value and Trade bait are still comparison lenses, not currency. Abstract proxies keep the board comparison-native; Collectrio does not show official Pokémon art.

Product overview if you are new to the site: /guides/what-is-collectrio. Dollar stance: /guides/why-not-a-price-list.

How a trio becomes the number

Each submission is three pairwise results. Sleeve or Train beats the other two names. Swap or Trade beats Store or Transfer and loses to Sleeve or Train. Store or Transfer loses both. Those pairs update Elo. The K-factor, expected-score curve, and seed compression are published on /methodology — this guide does not invent those knobs. Seeds start order; submitted trios are the measurement.

The public number is clamped to a 1000–9999 band so it reads like other collection-value boards while staying a relative score — the same public band described on /methodology. After sorting, tiers cliff when gaps hit the size described on /methodology — Elite, High, Core, Depth, Fringe. Tiers are cliffs in the current board, not a second scoring system.

Full recipe — including falling back to the full catalog when a lens pool would be too small for a trio — lives on /methodology. Unlock and session boards: /how-rankings-work. Column literacy: /guides/reading-the-board.

Trend is not a price candle

Trend is this board’s public number now minus the same number computed from rankings older than seven days. If nobody ranked that name this week, trend is 0. It is not TCGPlayer movement, not Niantic news, and not Discord volume.

Small bumps on thin samples are usually noise. Do not reopen an agreed package because a Fringe name twitched. Habits for calm reading: /guides/trend-without-noise.

Action hints on the live board map tier cliffs back to locked product verbs. They are board-read shortcuts, not a new metric and not a dollar claim.

What the number is not

Not a scraped listing. Not insurance value. Not a grading premium. Not a cross-board bridge between Cards and GO. Not a promise that your local partner agrees. Crowdsourced comparisons can be wrong for your collection — that is why you contribute trios and still use judgment.

Modifiers on the calculator (NM / LP / MP on Cards; Plain / Lucky / Needs XL on GO) adjust comparison strength for a package. They do not mint a second market or convert Elo into currency. Calculator baseline: /guides/how-calculator-works.

When a partner demands dollars, open a marketplace tab and keep Collectrio for relative package shape. When to prefer which tool: /guides/collectrio-vs-price-guides.

• Say “on this lens the package is close on Collectrio,” not “Collectrio says this is worth $X.”
• Pick the lens that matches the decision sentence before you quote a number.
• Treat Off board as a peer-set signal, not a broken page.
• Re-open shared calculator URLs when trend on a chase line is loud and both sides consent.

How to read it on a live board

Skim Elite and High for names the crowd keeps defending. Use Core and Depth for package filler that still belongs on the lens. Glance Fringe only when you need honest bottom. Ignore Off board rows for the current question — switch lens or change lines.

Frameworks for why a row looks the way it does: /guides/ranking-frameworks. Lens fights when Binder and Playable disagree: /guides/lens-conflicts. Same idea on GO between Dex, Raids, and Trade bait: /guides/how-lenses-work.

Short answers also sit on /faq. Term definitions live on /glossary. About the fan project: /about. If you are teaching a partner, narrate one lens only until they can explain “relative, not dollars” in one sentence — then introduce trend.

FAQ

Why does the same name show different numbers on different lenses? Because the comparable set changed. The number is always “relative to these peers on this lens,” not a universal constant. Quoting a Binder number inside a Playable argument is how package fights start.

Why is a name Off board? It is in the catalog but not in the served set for that lens. Bulk energy on Binder is the classic Cards example. Trophy-only shinies on Raids are a common GO example. That is intentional, not a broken page.