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PSA Weighting
This may be a dumb question, but how do you think PSA comes up with their weighting? It doesn't seem to make sense based on the numbers. A card that is 1/50 is weighted a 1.5, and a card that is 1/564 is weighted a 6.0. What? I'm missing something in how PSA figures it I guess.
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I was one time told it is sheerly done by price, regardless of difficulty.
Or picked out of a hat. Wanna laugh? The SIGNED set weights are just a copy of the unsigned set weights. So guys rated a common, Even if they are impossible to find signed, are only worth 1!
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"Picked out of a hat". I believe it. I was looking at one of the current stars, and I just couldn't make sense of some of the PSA weighting versus the Ebay pricing. Then I looked at some cards that were only 1/50 that had a lower weighting than cards that were 1/999. I've never really used the PSA weighting, but thought it might help with figuring out relative pricing. It didn't help at all and didn't make sense based on how many cards of a certain type should be available. As an example, PSA lists:
__________________________________________________ ____________________Card Num.____Weight____Number Made 2010 BOWMAN PLATINUM PROSPECTS MIKE TROUT GOLD REFRACTOR________________PP5__________3_________X/499 2010 BOWMAN PLATINUM PROSPECTS MIKE TROUT GOLD REFRACTOR-THICK STOCK_____PP5__________6_________X/539 There's nearly the same amount. One is listed as a weight of 6, and the other a weight of 3. Last edited by GasHouseGang; 09-06-2020 at 08:03 PM. Reason: Trying to get chart to line up |
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How were they distributed?
I could see if the x/539 was a retail version, where some percentage will end up in some kids sock drawer collection. Ok, maybe not since it is 2020, but some percentage of retail inserts will be essentially lost to the hobby where the inserts from the hobby version will have a better survival rate. The same would go for versions in a type of pack favored by the big pack busters, vs less popular pack types. |
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