No More Neighs (in other words, beating a dead horse)...

[mq711]

I would prefer a psa9 OC than a straight 7 because the 7 will still look OC. My hope was that one of the new grading companies would give a centering percentage (60/40;25/75) on the slab and leave it out of the grade factoring. This should be the easiest task to incorporate AI.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by mq711

My hope was that one of the new grading companies would give a centering percentage (60/40;25/75) on the slab and leave it out of the grade factoring.

That might make things easier on the graders, but it would badly skew the ability to track price ranges per grade if centering standards are removed from each of the grades. An 8 that is 50/50 will sell for high, while an 8 that is only 80/20 s-s will not. A nicely centered 7 suddenly becomes more expensive than a badly centered 9. The figures would quickly go all over the place.

Centering has been tied to grades P - Mint for at least 40 years now in some way, shape, or form. The TPG's changed the game here in terms of detail, but even in the 1980's you had Beckett and their "slightly OC, OC, badly OC" and most people agreeing that no moderately OC card was truly mint. While I think the problem today continues to be due in large part to the fact that many collectors can't or aren't willing to understand centering standards and how they work among the number grades - I'm not sure the answer is throwing out that model entirely.

[glynparson]

The two grade drop was for registry purposes a 9 oc was not necessarily going to get a 7 if you asked for no qualifiers. People mistakingly have stated this for years and it’s flat out incorrect.