Tracking 1 Year of PSA Pop Growth for Base Set Charizard

I wouldn’t be suprised if at least half of those are crack and resends.

If you did that today I need your middle man on my rolodex.

Reviving this for 2021. Since its the first day of OCT i figured id go ahead and track how 1st Ed Charizard was doing.

1st ED Shadowless Charizard PSA POP

             Sep-20       Sep-21     % of Change  

PSA 10 120 123 2.5%
PSA 9 640 689 7.7%
PSA 8 495 622 25.7%
PSA 7 324 433 33.6%
PSA 6 366 556 51.9%
PSA 5 256 406 58.6%
PSA 1-4 263 618 135.0%
**Total 2464 3447 39.9%**Edit for formatting

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pokemetrics.org/sets/18ll-1/bnrw is the 1st edition card’s entry on PokéMetrics. My data is up to date as of Wednesday just gone, so it looks like PSA have graded 3 more since then.

Before anyone looks at the Shadowless card’s grades (Charizard 4 · 1999 Base Set (Shadowless) on PokéMetrics.org) and concludes that only 2 new PSA 10 entries were added (53->55), it’s worth noting that between January and April this year the PSA 10 count decreased by 2, so there have actually been 4 of those graded in the past 12 months (though 2 of those may be the same 2 which were originally removed from the counts anyway - no idea on that front).

How did you end up doing this? I wonder if we could programatically track pop history/trends for other cards easily (over various periods of time as well)

@joakimstore and I are neck and neck! Since we started our bet, 2-3 additional PSA 10 charizards have been graded.

However, I win if there are less than 125, and he wins if there are 125 or more by the end of the year!

What’s the wager?

I wanna know too