How Orderly is your Card Collecting? What is your Scatter Factor?

[UKCardGuy]

Neat thread. I like the idea of a scatter factor. I'm at 24.

As I have a bias towards set collecting, I think an alternative scatter factor could be the number of sets with low completion rates.

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by UKCardGuy

Neat thread. I like the idea of a scatter factor. I'm at 24.



As I have a bias towards set collecting, I think an alternative scatter factor could be the number of sets with low completion rates.

That works for player collectors, too. A few years ago I decided to build a Reggie Jackson run. Thanks to the one I just got from Howard, I am up to 5 now.

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[irv]

Fairly orderly.
I keep all my 52's in this case, except my Mantle, Mays and Jackie, (which I keep in a safety deposit box), and the rest of my collection, hockey and baseball, in separate shoeboxes sorted by modern and vintage.

[Frankish]

The fact that the scatter factor calculation makes no sense to me is probably a reliable indication that I am way too scattered....

[nat]

I like BobC's idea of taking the cards that are part of your collecting focus and dividing by the total number of cards you have. If you do that, then I'm pretty close to 1. Although considerably lower if you include the junk wax from when I was a kid that's still sitting in a box somewhere in my parents' attic.

As for the OP's definition, I'm at about 10.

And Ben, that room is quite impressive. But if Ben's collection is the greater Houston metropolitan area, my collection is a little village in the hills. The whole thing fits on one shelf of a bookshelf.