As long as you take them in a general sense, and overall ratio is general enough, the population reports can be handy.
I've looked at the numbers for T206 a lot, and overall the HOF players appear to be submitted roughly twice as often as commons. That holds for all the fairly common backs, and looks like it might for the tougher backs as well but the sample size is too small. (Like maybe 10 of a HOFer and 5 for a common for a fairly tough back, lower numbers for the really tough ones) The really difficult cards and the really popular ones break the curve. By the pop reports Magie (A somewhat rare card) is more common than the Magee which is a popular and slightly tough common.
Were the T201 Hof ers graded about twice as often as the commons?
Of course prewar the condition isn't skewed towards the higher grades. Which does complicate things a bit.
Steve B
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