Posted By:
GlennHi Tim,
How are you these days?
The answer to your question (rhetorical though it may have been) is that the board is comprised primarily of people who can afford the luxury of spending hundreds or thousands of dollars per month on baseball cards and is thus not a representative sampling of the general populace. It is analogous to the Literary Digest telephone poll of 1936 that predicted Alf Landon in a landslide over FDR.
edited to add: I see I've been beaten to the punch.