Yet Another T206 Sheet Size Discussion

[steve B]

Originally Posted by t206hound

Chris was asserting that the "14 Group" (non-Hindu) appeared in pop reports at a frequency roughly twice that of the "34 Group" (Hindu).

Ted suggests that two of the Hindu group were double printed.

If that were the case, then 16 cards (all 14 non-Hindu plus the two double-printed Hindu) would occur with twice the frequency of the remaining 32. Within the Hindu group, is there data to support that any of them appear at a 2-to-1 frequency to the others?

Here's the Hindu numbers from SGC, It's hard to draw a solid conclusion from a small sample. And the numbers could of course be off because of resubs.

Another thing to consider is that in general the more popular cards - Known tough cards and HOF ers are typically around twice as likely to be graded.

bay 9
Bernhard 6
Breitenstine 10
carey 4 *
coles 10
cranston 8
ellam 10
foster 6
fritz 9
greminger 10


guiheen 8
helm 9
hickman 8
Hooker 5 *
Howard 7
Jordan 9
kiernan 8
lafitte 6
lipe 8
manion 12

mc cauley 6
molesworth 10
mullaney 8
otey 7
paige 5 *
perdue 8
persons 5 *
reagan 7
revelle 13
Ryan 8

Shaughnessy 15
smith 5 *
thornton 6
violat 3 *

There are a few I'd think might be shortprints, I marked any with less than 6 - Purely arbitrary, but there are six of them. Also six with 6-7. Of the remaining 22 only Shaughnessy, Manion and Revelle have more than 10. Shaughnessy is popular, so there may be some effect there. Double puts him at 7-8 a bit less puts it closer to 10.

So it's a group of 34, with two fairly consistent groups of 6 and probably two double prints Revelle and Manion. Shaughnessy I think is popular enough that the numbers are skewed

That's nice example of a group where I can't justify either the 12 or 17 theory. Both sort of fit, but neither is a really good fit. If it's 17 there's a bit of stretch to explain the imbalance. If it's 6 or 12, there's four leftover any way you figure it. But only 2 or three double prints. Which doesn't fit either.


Steve B