Why is the SGC Pop Report Getting Ignored?

[RCMcKenzie]

A couple of reasons for me. PSA is very quick info.

SGC is trying to guess the set name, i.e- T213 "no results" T213-2 "no results" and on and on trying to guess the specific text they have it under.

Also, they have a robot check. I have to click on the boxes that have "ladders" oops, I missed one. Next click on boxes that have motorcycles. etc

And, I have to stop and scroll all the way to the right to see pop numbers, and back to the left to see the player. Maybe I don't know how to work the computer to resize the page.

And the results are similar % wise for heavily graded cards like T206 or 52 Topps. See my 52T thread in the postwar section where I talk about the PSA and SGC pops for 52 Topps.

[Sterling Sports Auctions]

Hi Robert,

I do agree it is a pain to access the pop report. Why you just can't type T206 and get the front page makes no sense to me. Had a hell of a time trying to bring up the pop report for the Evans card on SGC but some how did finally get to it.

Lee

[notfast]

Psa t206 pop report takes forever to load. Glitchy as hell

Sgc t206 pop report is broken down into 50 different things. 1909. 1909-11. 1910. Etc etc.

Neither are great IMO.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

A couple of reasons for me. PSA is very quick info.

SGC is trying to guess the set name, i.e- T213 "no results" T213-2 "no results" and on and on trying to guess the specific text they have it under.

Also, they have a robot check. I have to click on the boxes that have "ladders" oops, I missed one. Next click on boxes that have motorcycles. etc

And, I have to stop and scroll all the way to the right to see pop numbers, and back to the left to see the player. Maybe I don't know how to work the computer to resize the page.

And the results are similar % wise for heavily graded cards like T206 or 52 Topps. See my 52T thread in the postwar section where I talk about the PSA and SGC pops for 52 Topps.

+1 I'ts exhausting just trying to find anything.

[gunboat82]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

Also, they have a robot check. I have to click on the boxes that have "ladders" oops, I missed one. Next click on boxes that have motorcycles. etc

I'd kill for some ladders and motorcycles. I keep getting bumblebees.

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by gunboat82

I'd kill for some ladders and motorcycles. I keep getting bumblebees.

That's great. haha. I'm glad everyone has to do it, at least.

[G1911]

Their database is trash and horrible. Good luck even finding the sets half the time.

Example of the user experience:
I search "T220" and do the stupid captcha. It says I need to use 8 or more characters.

I search "T220 Silver" and do the stupid captcha. It says 0 results.

I search "T220 boxing" and fill out the stupid captcha. It says 0 results.

I search "T220 Mecca" and fill out the stupid captcha. I finally get the set.

It doesn't split the silver set and the white set so I have to account pops by hand to filter. Then it becomes apparent that this dataset is wildly incomplete and inaccurate with tons of SGC graded cards obviously not included. The Donovan silver, which they have graded, is not even listed as a valid card. Nor is the Corbett, which they have not graded before.

I realize this is not only a pain to use but garbage and incomplete data, and then go to PSA's site and get their data within 60 seconds in a usable format.

[Pat R]

SGC is okay for T206's but they don't break them down by factory and PSA has been doing that for years so you can get a pretty good idea on the numbers for the ones that were graded prior to the factory designation.

For example there are 76 Sweet Caporal 350 Steve Evans in their pop report with this breakdown

Sweet Caporal 350 = 76
Sweet Caporal 350/25 = 6
Sweet Caporal 350/30 = 38

There are 32 Sweet Caporal 350's in the pop report that don't have the factory designation but using the 13.63% that the factory 25's represent in the ones that have the factory numbers would put the total around 65-66 factory 30 and 10-11 factory 25's.

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[Rhotchkiss]

I ALWAYS check the SGC pop report

[brianp-beme]

I was checking both the PSA and the SGC pop report over a few days for the recent thread I started on the Sports Co. of America/Spalding set (PSA lists as Spalding, SGC as Sports Co. of America, the latter being how this set is most commonly referred to currently). Definitely the PSA site is much easier to access, whereas the SGC has 5 separate listings to 'captcha'. In addition I had to remember to click on the 'Show Old Grading' to make sure that I was getting a more complete record of what has 'supposedly' been graded when it came to the 4 different possible backs (this 'supposed' nugget also applies to PSA).

So not as nice, but still potentially useful. YMMV (Your Misanthropy May Vary).


Brian