4,999 Card Milestone

bigunitcards · Nov 5, 2016

because the next card in the mail isn't all that exciting, we'll go ahead & celebrate a card early.

#4,999, my 5th Diffractor

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joey12508 · Nov 5, 2016

The 98 Tek diffractor is sweet. Congrats on your milestone.

RStadlerASU22 · Nov 5, 2016

Impressive!

Ryan

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banjar · Nov 5, 2016

That's awesome. You should also post scans of #5000 , you know, just because!

mrmopar · Nov 5, 2016

Do you avoid oversized cards or is Johnson severely under represented in that area?

banjar · Nov 5, 2016

He's 6' 10". That sorta makes every card oversize

brian26 · Nov 5, 2016

Quick question - so, for the 90 diffractor patterns, do you count those as attainable? or don't count them at all? I notice you mentioned it's your 5th diffractor, but you're only missing 31 cards from 1998. Looks like you don't count the diffractors separately at all...but not sure how you choose to look at those.

Congrats on the amazing achievement!

bigunitcards · Nov 5, 2016

brian26 said:
Quick question - so, for the 90 diffractor patterns, do you count those as attainable? or don't count them at all? I notice you mentioned it's your 5th diffractor, but you're only missing 31 cards from 1998. Looks like you don't count the diffractors separately at all...but not sure how you choose to look at those.

Congrats on the amazing achievement!

I use the term "attainable" for anything serial #d out of 99 or more (unless I have it), although that rule really made more sense in the early 2000s than now. Just a way of making the collecting a little more realistic in terms of cards likely to ever be found & completion %.

I've also deleted a lot of 1/1s and #/5 stuff from my full checklist just to clean it up a tad, the diffractors were part of that. At 5-10 copies each and having only found 5 in ~8 years of RJ collecting I don't consider them attainable. I just add them back onto it as I get them, which is like once a year.

BiggioBrooks755 · Nov 6, 2016

Congrats!!

banjar · Nov 6, 2016

I really enjoyed perusing your PC stats. I keep similar stats but never seen someone else's before. A few random comments...

The "attainable" column is a nice idea. I do something similar, to make myself feel better about the low percentage of "total cards" I have. I keep stats for "total cards minus 1/1", "playing career", and playing career minus 1/1". Stupid 1/1's.

1677 unique cards from 2007, are you kidding me? That is *bananas*.

2 unique cards in 2011. Funny how this fluctuates. My PC has 581 in 2003, then 0 in 2006, 1 in 2009, and now 244 in 2015. Gah...

Only 4 oversize cards? Would have guessed many more, but certainly take your word for it.

8256 unique cards is staggering. And still only 40% of the number I've heard for A-rod. This also is *bananas*.

bigunitcards · Nov 6, 2016

mrmopar said:
Do you avoid oversized cards or is Johnson severely under represented in that area?

Looks like I wasn't marking those very well, when I went back through my binders I come up with 17, 19 if I counted the 2 oversize refractors.

heavy_hitter · Nov 6, 2016

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsra05.shtml

He was a beast for the Astros in the 11 games he started after the trade in 1998.

Kid4hof03 · Nov 6, 2016

Impressive!

George_Calfas · Nov 7, 2016

Congrats

u2me57 · Nov 8, 2016

Congratulations! Awesome Topps Tek Diffractor!

tonsofcommons · Nov 8, 2016

Can I be 5,000????

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2003-Fleer-...ndbacks-/391019920700?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

bigunitcards · Nov 8, 2016

tonsofcommons said:
Can I be 5,000????

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2003-Fleer-Tradition-Glossy-327-Randy-Johnson-57-100-Diamondbacks-/391019920700?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

Already acquired, but thanks. #5,000 & 5,001 arrived today.

tonsofcommons · Nov 8, 2016

bigunitcards said:
Already acquired, but thanks. #5,000 & 5,001 arrived today.

Darn it, but congrats!!!!!

DonnieBaseball · Nov 8, 2016

Congrats. What an impressive accomplishment!

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