How about this idea for the finals of the grading world series?

haletj

How about this, leave the preliminary rounds as they are, but for the finals, when you have all the really good graders together... For each coin, look at what grade the majority of the participants say it is, and call that the "right" grade. Take points away from whoever was against the majority. If around 50% say one grade and 50% say another, you can call both grades correct. The majority idea (among the expert graders) would be more of a determining of how the majority of the coin market would grade that coin, and that truly would be the "correct" grade. The contest would be totally unbiased unrelying on pcgs's grading. Pcgs could participate (on the side) and see how well they do!

In some of the lists of people's grade and scores, it is really funny to see all four top participants say ms62 and pcgs to say ms63! Who is really wrong?

haletj

Everyone seems to ignore my posts sometimes

291fifth

Actually, an interesting idea. Unfortunately, anything that suggests the PCGS grade is not the correct grade is unlikely to fly. Don't feel bad about your posts being ignored. Many of mine are as well.

Coinosaurus

It Hall really had guts, he would put his own graders in the contest.

But, whether or not he does, I still think the whole concept is very cool.