I check the total number of sports cards listed on eBay a few times a year to try and determine where the 4 main sports are trending. Baseball is usually 40% to 50% of all the cards listed. Football is usually 25% to 30%. Then Basketball and Hockey combined usually make up that last 25% to 30%. Honestly, It hasn't changed much in the past decade... except that the beginning and ends of sports seasons typically show rises and falls.
Basketball (and surprisingly to me, hockey) have both moved up the most. The past couple of years Basketball seems to have made the biggest increases in popularity, although it's still nowhere near football. As an example, here's today's number of total listings:
Baseball: 12,473,181
Football: 6,228,014
Hockey: 3,485,856
Basketball: 3,290,268
Football and Basketball are both down a little today. Basketball is usually in 3rd place, and football is usually a little over half of baseball.
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