Friday, December 1, 2017

Grading a Repack #1

Dollar Tree sometimes has sports and other trading cards and occasionally I'll pick up a few packs. The packs that I'm most fond of are these PressTine packs featuring 30 cards.


I picked up a few packs recently and thought I could turn them into a blog feature where I assign each card a point value and see which pack has the highest point value.

Point System

Hall of Famer: 10 points
Star Player: 5 points
Current Diamondback: 5 points
One Time Diamondback: 3 points
Dodger: -5 points
Oddball: 3 points
Damaged Card: - 5 points
Junk Wax (1987 - 1994) Base Cards: -2 points
Insert: 5 points
Parallel: 2 points
Mini Collection: 5 points
Vintage (Pre 1981): 25 points

Cards can't have + and - points, so for example, a card of a Hall of Famer or Star Player from the Junk Wax era will only get the positive points. Also, some cards will not have any point value.


Mini Collection (celebrations): 5 points
 Oddball: 3 points

Hall of Famer: 10 points

Star Player: 5 points


Star Player: 5 points

Star Player: 5 points 


One Time Diamondback: 3 points


Junk Wax: -2 points


Update, so it doesn't count as Junk Wax.


Star Player: 5 points


Star Player: 5 points

Star Player: 5 points




Mini Collection (Patches): 5 points

Damaged Card: -5 points

Junk Wax: -2 points


Damaged Card: - 5 points


Junk Wax: -2 points


Hall of Famer: 10 points

 Junk Wax: -2 points


Star Player: 5 points


Star Player: 5 points

Damaged Card: -5 points


Star Player: 5 points


Junk Wax: -2 points


Oddball: 3 points


Mini Collection (trophies): 5 points

64 points, if I added correctly. We'll see how that stacks up. I'll try to post one every week or so.

5 comments:

  1. OH man - that Alomar card is just another amazing UD photo.

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  2. I like! That was fun.

    I would suggest one additional bit to the system...a small plus for older cards. Not sure where the cutoff should be--maybe 1982? I'd suggest a larger plus for true vintage, but it's not likely you'd ever have to use it.

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    1. You are absolutely correct. I draw the line for vintage as Pre 1981. I added it. Thanks!

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  3. Seems fun. That Alomar photo is awesome!!!

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  4. I enjoy repacks. This particular 30 card "Presstine" pack I have gotten many of from my local Dollar Tree. On one visit I got 6 packs of them maybe more. Usually they are exactly 30 cards but a few times there have only been 29 and one time I got 3 or 4 extras in a pack.

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