1946 had a large class of HOFers from the 206 set. After that you see plenty of HOFers that bring a bit less coin and its pretty much their year of induction.
1953 Wallace-Bender
1955 Baker
1957 Crawford
1959 Wheat
1963 Flick
1964 Huggins
1971 Beckley-Kelley-Marquard
1978 Joss
1995 Willis
when Burdick was cataloging many cards were still commons and the HOFers inducted in the first 10 years are the ones that bring the better value.
this will give a time line of the cataloging
http://t206resource.com/T206%20Designation.html
"The name of the T206 set, also known as the "White Border Set," originated from the numbering system used by Jefferson R. Burdick when he created The American Card Catalog. The first known cataloging appeared in a short article in a magazine in 1936. The first catalog, The United States Card Collectors Catalog, was published in 1939. During the next several years, Burdick continued his work, and in 1946 the catalog was updated and renamed The American Card Catalog.
Burdick catalogued card sets with categories designated by letters. The "T" category was composed of 20th-century U.S. tobacco insert cards. The "206" came from a sequential numbering system used to list various sets in the "T" category."