SGC and PSA T206 pop report comparisons 2006 and 2008

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Posted By: Jeff Shepherd

I found an old thread from early January 2006 dealing with T206 population reports for SGC and PSA. I thought it would be interesting to look at the growth of each of these companies in regards to this specific set. Granted these numbers are likely a bit inflated with cracks and resubmissions etc. I grabbed the 2006 info from the thread, and the 2008 SGC pop. info from their site today. If someone can provide current PSA pop. info that would be great, I didn’t want to shell out the $5 bucks

Original thread:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/153652/message/1136339737/

SGC T206 pop reports Jan. 6, 2006 - 15,759 total graded:

SGC 10: 616
SGC 20: 1006
SGC 30: 2425
SGC 40: 4379
SGC 50: 3583
SGC 60: 2135
SGC 70: 741
SGC 80: 487
SGC 84: 250
SGC 86: 81
SGC 88: 37
SGC 92: 12
SGC 96: 7
SGC 98: 0
AUTH: Not provided


SGC T206 pop reports Jan. 2, 2008 – 39,141 total graded:

SGC 10: 2709
SGC 20: 3298
SGC 30: 6037
SGC 40: 9976
SGC 50: 8008
SGC 60: 4883
SGC 70: 1490
SGC 80: 1160
SGC 84: 569
SGC 86: 139
SGC 88: 79
SGC 92: 17
SGC 96: 13
SGC 98: 1
AUTH: 762


PSA T206 pop reports Jan. 3, 2006 - 51,461 total graded:

(1-2) 7319
(3-4) 20372
(5) 11013
(6) 6085
(7) 3195
(7Q) 76
(8) 1712
(8Q) 93
(9) 175
(9Q) 25
(10) 11

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Posted By: Marc S.

have not been updated in a month, so these are as of December 3, 2007:

83,718 total graded:

(1-2) 13334
(3-4) 34223
(5) 17379
(6) 8990
(7) 4126
(7Q) 98
(8) 2233
(8Q) 115
(9) 260
(9Q) 42
(10) 13

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Posted By: Anthony S.

psa 1-2 13,334
psa 3-4 34,223
psa 5 17,379
psa 6 8,990
psa 7 4,126
psa 7q 98
psa 8 2,233
psa 8q 115
psa 9 260
psa 9q 42
psa 10 13

total: 83,718

this is as of 12/03/07

p.s. I just noticed that Marc beat me to it, but if I did this much transcribing, I'm gonna post the damn thing anyway

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Posted By: Scott Sarian

Very interesting topic. A couple of thoughts which jump out to me:

1.) Of the total cards graded by PSA and SGC as of 2 years ago, PSA had roughly 77% to SGC with 23%. Of those graded in the past two years, PSA had 62% to SGC's 38%. So there is a shift with more cards going to SGC now.

2.) The percentage of SGC high-end (84 and above) cards has increased 211% in two years (387 to 818) while PSA high-end (7 and above) has increased only 30% (5211 vs. 6789). So this shows more high-end cards are either going to SGC or getting re-slabbed by them.

3.) Lower grade (1-2) cards have increased roughly 300%, while higher-end cards (PSA 6 / SGC 80 and above) have increased at less than 200%. So more low-end cards are being sent in for grading, and the higher-end cards already have been slabbed.

Scott

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

That is very interesting indeed. The data shows increases during the past two years (for PSA and SGC combined) of:

* 82% in the total graded T206 population
* 46% in the EX-MT and above sub-population
* 36% in the NM and above sub-population

It is impossible to know to what degree these figures are inflated due to re-submits and cross-overs, but in any event those are surprisingly large increases. Hasn't professional grading been around for over 15 years now? And still the whole population nearly doubled in just the past 2 years? This suggests to me that there are still very large populations of raw cards out there yet to be graded, even at the high end.

It would be interesting to take a snapshot like this of these populations once every year or so, to get a feeling for the trend in the rates at which raw cards are finding their way into holders in the various grades. If these rates are not leveling off over time, we can expect to see large increases in graded populations for many years to come.

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Posted By: MikeU

"1.) Of the total cards graded by PSA and SGC as of 2 years ago, PSA had roughly 77% to SGC with 23%. Of those graded in the past two years, PSA had 62% to SGC's 38%. So there is a shift with more cards going to SGC now."

One slight correction, the split in the last two years is SGC (42%) and PSA (58%). Will have to remember this statistic the next time a poster cautions a T206 newbie that the difference in the number of slabs between the two companies approaches infinity. Because of this fact, they would be lucky to even find an SGC slab for sale.