Pixel counters and Psa fans, what is centering for a PSA 7?

RipublicaninMass

Is this 70/30?

zef204

not even close

iamthegreatcornholio

slight tilt - at it's worst point before the blue looks 75.5/24.5 with pixel counting.

studentT206

Read "The importance of eye appeal and subjectivity in grading" in the PSA Grading Standards in SMR. I think this sheds some light on why they gave it a seven. I think there is some history of liberal centering tolerance with white/yellow background 55's. Card still looks like it lacks eye appeal with that centering in this instance though.

Damian

TimeMachine

The fact that the background color on this issue is yellow explains quite a bit when discussing eye-appeal... the yellow blending more or less into the white diminishes the contrast that the "true" centering would suggest. Looks like the folks over at PSA would have given this an 8 had the centering been a bit better or even .5 from "strict" 8 centering tolerances.

A very nice card whatever the grade, I wish I had a Koufax graded 7 with the same centering...

orion9578

Perhaps it would have been a 9OC but the submitter asked for NQ's? Just a thought as I could be way off .

shambo2000

Using a pixel ruler I get 78/22 left to right and 47/53 top to bottom. I just used the inserted picture without enlarging it. With the left to right centering off the best this card should grade is PSA 6.

Shannon