Massive Player Collections

[timzcardz]

My Ripken collection is somehwere north of 3,000 cards, maybe close to 4,000now.

I use an excel spreadsheet, however haven't updated it in a few years and need to find time this winter to update and maybe redo.

I keep the vast majority fo the cards in 9 pocket sheets in binders.

I also need to add the other Ripken collectibles to my spreadsheet. These include everything from food products to figurines to various autographed items.

[olrac44]

My friend has about 12,000+ Derek Jeter cards. He is fairly organized as all of his graded cards are organized by year in individual boxes, and all of his raw cards are in large 5000 Ct boxes (without the dividers). Each box is a specific product (i.e. Topps, Fleer, etc) top loaded and rubber banded by year.

Last year he purchased a high end Jeter card for $600 on ebay only to find out he already had the card. So I downloaded a Jeter Checklist from Beckett and together we cataloged them into Excel. He was a newbie to excel but he got the hang of it as I worked with him on it.

Then he was able to easily see if he had the card. It has also helped him see where he has heavy duplication and sold/traded the duplication to acquire cards he didn't have.

[bnorth]

I have around 7-8000 Wade Boggs cards with close to 1200 different. Very few are from 2000-present. I quit collecting in 2000 because I had enough of the crazy amount of inserts, parallels, serial #ed cards, and sets. I stayed in the hobby by flipping error cards. It was more for fun than profit. A few months ago I started collecting again but have not added many new cards to the Boggs collection.

[Julz24]

Update: I decided to stay with Numbers after all. It's just so familiar and easy to use for me I couldn't make the change. I ended up using a suggestion given to me thru pm by frankbmd, (thank you Frank). I created 5 separate sheets of data with the following titles:

- Main (1756 cards)
- Autographs & Game-Used (215 cards)
- Samples, Promos, Plates, Errors (52 cards)
- Oddballs (846 cards)
- Large Sets - ie. Moments and Milestones (435 cards)

Total: 3304 Different

By separating out the data into different sheets, the scrolling speed and search speed have dramatically increased. I also added a one cell table at the top and bottom of each sheet. That way when the software does start to lag, and won't let me scroll quickly, I can click on the "Bottom" table and it will take me directly to the bottom of the page.

After the first of the year, I plan on decreasing the amount of new pickups while I figure out how I want to sort and organize the actual cards.