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Posted By: JimB

If grading has no relation to the desirability of the card, as has been suggested, then we have lost perspective on what grading scales were initially set up to do. What is to keep grading from being based on some utterly arbitrary criteria? The best centering of a card is 50/50, not 80/20. Why? Because that is what is most aesthetically pleasing and desirable. All other things equal, I don't think you could find a single collector who would prefer 80/20 centering over 50/50. That is why proximity to 50/50 centering is a grading criteria. To say that grading should have nothing to do with desirability or eye-appeal is ridiculous IMHO. Otherwise, let's give mint grades to cards with 95/5 centering, creases and rounded corners and vg to clean, 50/50, crease-free, sharp cornered cards.
JimB