I was comparing the PSA pop numbers for set charizard cards. I thought you guys might also like to see the results.
Note: Reverse holos/foils have been filtered, but I missed the LC non-holo.
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Nice, now for a decent pokemon.
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Rainbow = quality graphs. Interesting stuff to see.
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Log scale might work better because of outliers making the lower values harder to discern.
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Love seeing your posts with graphs for some reason! Its nice to compare data of different cards
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The most shocking part about that graph is how many Charizards have been printed in the past ten years. I zoomed into the middle of the graph expecting to the EX Series or early DP-era…and nope, XY-era lol.
Another interesting thing that the graph shows is proportion of PSA 10s remains pretty consistent until around 2014-2015. And then it skyrockets. And this is exactly what you’d expect, since that’s when PSA-grading started to become super widespread in the hobby. Ever since 2014 or so, people have been opening packs and perfectly preserving cards straight out of the pack to a much greater degree than they did during WotC/EX-eras. And this, I think, is what has lead to the crazy premium for WotC/EX Series sealed product. Opening it is pretty much the only way to find mint cards from those eras, whereas there’s a glut of perfectly-preserved modern cards, which makes modern-era sealed product much less desirable. People sitting on modern sealed product expecting it to appreciate like anything WotC-EX (or even DP/HGSS) are going to be sorely disappointed.
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