Most collected modern players
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I was thinking about the undervalued cards thread because I've always wondered why some players have significantly more followers and pricier cards than others.
My list of most collected modern baseball players in no order:
Brett
Ryan
Griffey, Jr
Rose
Schmidt
Ripken
Reggie
Yaz
Bench
Jeter
This seems pretty accurate when I went and compared it to the set registry. Bonds should probably be on there with an asterisk. Some common themes are: playing for the same team for their whole career or for a very long time really helps a player's following. Bonus points for being a Yankee or a Red. People like power bats and power arms. And these guys are pretty much the best of the best. A list of the top 15 players who started their career in what PSA considers the modern player era would include most if not all of these guys.
My conclusion is that the collecting community has good taste in this category.
My list of most collected modern baseball players in no order:
Brett
Ryan
Griffey, Jr
Rose
Schmidt
Ripken
Reggie
Yaz
Bench
Jeter
This seems pretty accurate when I went and compared it to the set registry. Bonds should probably be on there with an asterisk. Some common themes are: playing for the same team for their whole career or for a very long time really helps a player's following. Bonus points for being a Yankee or a Red. People like power bats and power arms. And these guys are pretty much the best of the best. A list of the top 15 players who started their career in what PSA considers the modern player era would include most if not all of these guys.
My conclusion is that the collecting community has good taste in this category.
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Seaver should be on that list.
One way to answer your question would be to sort the list of player set registries according to quantity of participants.
Notice that there are more registered sets of Randy Johnson than some others on your list, including Reggie?
A list of the most collected would certainly be different from a list of the best players.
Also, there are some players who might have a smaller amount of people collecting them but that group's passion for the cards is high. There are some pretty competitive collectors out there of Will Clark, Sandberg, Bo, etc.
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Here is a list of the players mentioned in this thread so far, with quantity of registered Master and Basic sets. There are many more players with sets who fit in among these guys, with participation of 30+ or more. I just didn't list those not mentioned yet. As you can see, Pujols is pretty far down the list. There are a whole lot of players not on the list in this post with higher registry participation than Pujols. Nothing against the guy, it is just that he has not caught up with the registry popularity yet.
Master Basic Name
101 81 Ryan
70 33 Griffey Jr.
69 85 Rose
64 35 Ripken Jr.
56 59 Schmidt
55 14 Jeter
55 19 Randy Johnson
51 38 Brett
51 79 Yaz
47 16 Mattingly
39 38 Reggie
39 48 Seaver
39 18 Bo
38 19 Sandberg
34 59 Bench
12 8 Pujols
*Edit to say that the formatting looks fine on the column alignment when typing, not sure why it shifts everything close together and ruins the spacing when it actually publishes the comment.
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<< <i>Seaver should be on that list.
One way to answer your question would be to sort the list of player set registries according to quantity of participants.
Notice that there are more registered sets of Randy Johnson than some others on your list, including Reggie?
A list of the most collected would certainly be different from a list of the best players.
Also, there are some players who might have a smaller amount of people collecting them but that group's passion for the cards is high. There are some pretty competitive collectors out there of Will Clark, Sandberg, Bo, etc. >>
Randy has more sets but very low completion percentages. One at 66% and nothing higher than 15% after that. I would agree that you can put Mattingly and Seaver in with my list though. There are other things to consider too like depth of completion percentage, number of cards required, cost, cards of recent players not as likely to be PSA graded, etc.
<< <i>Randy has more sets but very low completion percentages. One at 66% and nothing higher than 15% after that. I would agree that you can put Mattingly and Seaver in with my list though. There are other things to consider too like depth of completion percentage, number of cards required, cost, cards of recent players not as likely to be PSA graded, etc. >>
Good points.
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<< <i>I'm seeing a spike in Steve Balboni standard issues. Wouldn't argue with adding him to list. >>
this will be inaccurate..
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<< <i>Greg Maddux is pretty competitive. >>
No doubt about that. I've seen low pop stuff be listed and scarfed up on the same day, more than once.
<< <i>Frank Thomas has a huge following. Most modern collectors don't give a rip about PSA or the grading game so
this will be inaccurate.. >>
That's a good point. A lot of the collectors that operate in the 90s and 00s don't bother grading because there are thousands of cards they're chasing.
<< <i>Frank Thomas has a huge following. Most modern collectors don't give a rip about PSA or the grading game so
this will be inaccurate.. >>
Yes, that's pretty much the same way for Albert Pujols as well. The majority of his stuff that is graded are in BGS holders.