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Basketball

brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 100% of clicks) — Basketball doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

35
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Ranks 24 of 53 Sporting Goods niches · on the category median

Market size 2Growth 36Conversion 14Competition 14Returns 96Price range 95Avg price 90Brand share 0Review moat 65Quality gap 35
This niche Category average · 53 niches

Is Basketball profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon Singapore niche tracking, Basketball is a $8K/yr Amazon Singapore market (13K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 35/100.

Basketball: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +9.2% over the last 90 days and 1.1% of searches end in a purchase.

$8K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr250
Search volume / yr+9.2%13K
Conversion rate1.1%
Avg price$57.47

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand, so 0% of the market is open.

0%

open market share

Brands · sellers3 · 14
Top-5 product click share84%
Open market0%
Avg brand age77 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 10 products

Sponsored placement10%
New entrants (1y)0· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews898

Top Basketball products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products capture 84% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$1K$2K$4K$5K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

3 rising

Sellers

14

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Molten62%
  • WILSON35%
  • VS VITAL SALVEO3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Basketball demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume13KCVR1.1%Products10Brands3Top 5 Brands100%OOS Rate5.8%Rating4.5★Reviews898Avg BSR#31
600400Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26Aug '25Oct '25Nov '25Jan '26Mar '26May '26

Top Basketball search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

  • basketball10K/yr
  • wilson basketball2K/yr
  • molten basketball1K/yr

Basketball return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.8%

Return rate

0%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Value For Money
50%
2Grip
50%

Common Basketball questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Basketball 35/100 on Amazon Singapore — Skip it. The niche generates $8K/yr across 10 tracked products. Search demand moved +9.2% over the last 90 days.
Basketball sells for $57.47 on average on Amazon Singapore, inside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span $23.08–$94.31. The average incumbent carries 898 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.