REA Auction T206 Plank Grades (?)

[Matt]

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

It is subjective, but we all agree that eye appeal is one of the most important aspects of a card, if not the most important, right?

Well how can you grade a card but ignore the most important aspect of judging a card?

Your logic is flawed - the player on the card is also one of the most important aspects of evaluating a card (for most issues, THE most important aspect) yet that factors not into the grading system either. It depends what grading is meant to do - at one extreme you can say you want grading to be used to specify the desirability of the card - that would take into consideration eye appeal, the player on the card, scarcity, as well as the technical aspects. At the other extreme, you can say that grading is to put a number on the objective technical aspects of the card and that's it.

The way the system is, grading tends towards the latter, because that is what is most concrete. TPG only provides one piece of information we use when evaluating a card. In concert with the player on the card, the eye appeal, the scarcity and some other factors, we then make our own subjective determinations.