What Percentage of the 18,000+ MLB Players are represented in Your Collection?

[clydepepper]

I do not expect anyone to have an exact figure, just take a stab at it.

My collection includes complete Topps sets 1954-1980 which comes to 15,993 total cards - and I would guess less than a tenth would represent different players - say 1,550 - plus another 450 or so I have from other sets would come to only 2,000. I could 'cheat' a little and include cards from the 1991 & 1992 Conlon sets I just purchased, but that would only bring it up another 100 or so.

I got a feel there is someone out there who has a lot more represented than I do.

[Sean]

I probably have about 900 different players, so I guess that's about 5% of all MLB players.

[ALR-bishop]

Any and every player on a Topps card post 1948 and ever player on a Fleer card post 1959 ( some from 1923 ).

[Section103]

My "collection" covers exactly 58 players (I have other cards I dont consider part of my collections) so that would be 0.322%.

[conor912]

Mine isn't even close, but last I spoke to Mark MaCrae he was trying to get a photo of every player ever to play the game and was within a couple hundred of completion. Maybe he'll jump in here, but even up to his current number is an astounding feat.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Someone on the board has an autograph collection of all players to debut since the 60s (?)

[clydepepper]

Those last two posts represent amazing hobby accomplishments IMHO

- but I'm am just as impressed by Rich's exacting qualifier - I only wish I could be that disciplined.

[lug-nut]

31 players (total) = 0.00172222222222222222222222222222 (roughly)
21 Pre-war = 0.00116666666666666666666666666667 (roughly)
42 total cards