Has anyone here ever tried to trace print runs and identify them? How far have you gotten?

[Will]

An elaborate attempt at print run estimation. (WIP) 5-8-18

Elaborating further on what I teased in this post. This is a WIP (work in progress) as I plan to work on it further and refine it hopefully with further community input and more factual sources. By the end my goal is to come up with an actual estimated number for each set released from base set through Sun and Moon and further show the implications of how many chase cards that may result in for each given set. I will try to clearly call out all facts as such and all opinions/assumptions as suc…