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Bucket of Softballs

Maybe

The average product has only 369 reviews. But the products selling today already average 4.6★, so Bucket of Softballs is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 39% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +3 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$212K/yr95K searches / yr
90-day growth
+6.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
39%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 27 sellers

Flapen Score

Bucket of Softballs against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Bucket of Softballs is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Bucket of Softballs market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Bucket of Softballs 95K times last year and spent an estimated $212K. The top 5 brands take 85% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–May. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 95K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +6.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $212K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
95K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+6.7%
Conversion, latest week
2.6%
Market size, estimated
$212Ka year
Peak month
March4.6× the quietest month
Top search term
bucket of softballs70K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $84.83.

Listings sell for $84.83 on average, from $22.12 to $245.92. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $84.83 that is $0 to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$84.83inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$22.12–$245.92
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
2K–2K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$8K
Returns
1.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #152 within Softball. It carries 369 reviews at 4.56 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
12.2%
Average rank
#152in Softball
Average rating
4.56 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
369per listing
Listings tracked
36

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Bucket of Softballs products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 39% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

27

Top-5 brand share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

11%

  • Brand 131%
  • Brand 219%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 412%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (10 brands, 11%)

Demand

Bucket of Softballs search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

8K6KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.6×

Search terms

Top Bucket of Softballs search terms shoppers use

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

  • bucket of softballs70K/yr
  • bucket of softballs 12 inch fastpitch13K/yr
  • softball bucket of balls6K/yr
  • bucket of softballs 10u3K/yr
  • bucket softballs3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Bucket of Softballs

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

27%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
29%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.7%of orders come back
“Not sure why we are cutting corners on quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”29% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Bucket of Softballs questions

Answered from the same tracked data.