Looking for Set Weighting scale

Davemri

Could someone pls. give me a good scale to go by when weighing sets. I am trying to create the Basketball HOF RC set and need a rough idea.
for example
in a PSA 8

$.01-10.00 = .5
$10.01-25.00 = 1

etc...

thanks

dave

1420sports

Dave, I am not an expert at this and I am confused about the weights as well. I would base the weight on what the card is in the issued set. If the Dr. J rookie is weighted as a 5 in that set, do the same. It may be incorrect but it is a start. BJ and Gayle are great to work with, and they have helped me weigh some sets, along with guys like Marc (MikeSchmidt), RobE, Tony Aconte and others.

Good luck!

FB

A good way to start might be to look up the weights for the Baseball HOF set and see how the weighting was done there.

mikeschmidt

Dave:

Unfortunately, it is difficult to answer your question without knowing the SMR composition of the cards in the set. The range of prices is probably the most important factor, and I could help you from there, if you could tell me that information.

Also -- with a HOF set, I would look to keep the numbers as integers from 1-10, and shy away from using have set weights.

In weighting the Mike Schmidt Player set, for instance, it wasn't too hard to put together as many cards are valued under $10 in PSA 8 -- and there are only a handful of cards worth over $200. So it depends on the range and distribution. Not being a huge basketball fan, I couldn't tell you. Just guessing, I would say that the 1948 Bowman George Mikan would probably be weighted a 10. Cousy and Russell rookie cards would be behind that, along with the Chamberlain, Robertson, West and Alcindor rookies. Add in Dr. J, Larry Bird, etc., and I would imagine that those cards would typically run the highest weights as they are among the most popular and highly collected Basketball HOFers.