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Posted By: Matt

Here is a small comparative analysis for whatever it lends to the discussion:

Due to laziness, I took only 5 players; Donovan, Dooin, Evers, Lobert and Mathewson and ran their combined SGC+PSA pop reports (the best analysis would use all players across all issues, but this gives a rough approximation, which is, at best, all this kind of analysis useful for anyway). I didn't want to use any players that had variations within an issue (exit Cobb, Wagner, Bender, etc). The results below are average cards per player (rounded), and every issue reported has at least 2 players above included (obviously, if, for example, only 3 of the players were part of an issue, such as the E98s, the average is only on those 3).

This information is more relevant to a discussion of rarity, then it is to one of scarcity. Also, I don't think there's any ranking that can be drawn from issues within a few numbers of each other; to that end, I've grouped them into rough categories.

E95 (119)

E93 (59)

E90-1 (52)

E98 (42)
E92 (39)
E102 (36)
E94 (35)
E96 (33)

E101 (15)
E91B (15)
E103 (14)
E91A (14)
E106 (11)

E92 Candy (7)
E105 (6)
E92 Cocoa (5)

E104-III (3)
E92 Nadja - non STL (per Peter's suggestion) (2)