Paul Quiring lived in the neighborhood just below a breakthrough. NFL Survivor placed 48th; hockey came next at 52nd, with Montreal driving the event total to 226.33. Neither card became the runaway score he needed.
Five empty college football shares contributed to 203rd, then Germany's 19 led a World Cup portfolio that stalled at 229th. Matching 101st-place finishes in the NFL postseason and NBA were useful, not transformative.
Without a top-end payout, respectable cards could only slow the slide. Quiring lost 57 places; his 1210 total was good for 150th.