SGC Grading Challenge Video - can you guess the grade?

[Fred]

Right off the bat I see a flaw in the game rules. If the person guessing the grade is off by one point (and they give an example of someone assigning a 10 and the SGC grader determines 9), then that point counts against the overall total. Whoa - wait a minute... what if the difference in value between a 9 and 10 for that card is $thousands$ while the difference in the grade between a different card in the contest (for example price differential between 5 and 6) is $hundred$, then the misgrade between the 9 and 10 would have a much higher weighted value in difference. Hmmm... seems odd to me from an analytical point of view.

I get it, it's just a stupid game/challenge. Could be fun but really didn't make much sense to me when you consider the $$$ values in actual card values.

By the way, why does that Jeff guy look familiar? It's like I've seen him in other videos that have been linked to in this forum.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Fred

Right off the bat I see a flaw in the game rules. If the person guessing the grade is off by one point (and they give an example of someone assigning a 10 and the SGC grader determines 9), then that point counts against the overall total. Whoa - wait a minute... what if the difference in value between a 9 and 10 for that card is $thousands$ while the difference in the grade between a different card in the contest (for example price differential between 5 and 6) is $hundred$, then the misgrade between the 9 and 10 would have a much higher weighted value in difference. Hmmm... seems odd to me from an analytical point of view.

I get it, it's just a stupid game/challenge. Could be fun but really didn't make much sense to me when you consider the $$$ values in actual card values.

By the way, why does that Jeff guy look familiar? It's like I've seen him in other videos that have been linked to in this forum.

Geoff Wilson is an internet star.

[Fred]

When you guys see that the contestants didn't grade the same cards, you'll probably do the same thing - cringe. Why weren't they doing an apples/apples comparison? Then they had two different graders doing the analysis for each batch of cards. WTF? Subjectivity and more subjectivity. I'd give the idea of the contest a 10. Actual contest relevance, after watching an apples to oranges comparison of cards, grade = 4. Actual contest relevance, after watching an apples/orange comparison between different grader = 4. Overall score is about 3 because, in my subjectivity, the entertainment value was on a somewhat interesting level, but the waste of time grade drops this to a 3.

The contestants seem to think that there should be different grading scales for different eras for the cards. Uh, that is just crap, all grading should apply to ANY frigging card regardless of era. It looked like the Jeff guy had a very high tendency to put more weight on centering.