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PaulI have to agree that there's no room for fractional grades between a 9 and a 10 until someone can actually perceive a difference between most 9s and most 10s. On the other hand, there's a lot of room for more grades at the bottom of the scale. Some 2s are actually quite respectable, while others look like they have been through a garbage disposal. This is partly due to "technical" grading standards (microscopic back damage may be an automatic 2 or 1), but it's also due to the wide range of cards that legitimately fall into the lower grades.
I could see a 50 point system where the top 3 grades (48, 49, and 50) are equal to today's 8, 9, and 10, and the remaining 47 grades are divided up among the current 1-7.