Star players & commons.

[stevendmar]

Hello everyone.

For my personal collection I am trying to seperate all of the star players from the common players. I am looking for a good way to do this.

I thought about using Beckett as a guide. For example any player who is a minor card or higher in their last regular issued set would make the "star" list, and any player who is a common for their final card would be in the "common" list. However, if I do it this way then such players like Gary Sheffield would be a common player, who is not in my opinion.

Then I thought about going by statistics. For example a player with 300 HR's, or 1,500 RBI's, or 200 Wins, etc. might be a better way to go.

So, if going by statistics where do I make the cutoff for the major categories?

Several years ago I had a Beckett magazine that listed requirements for players becoming Minor, Semi, Unlisted, and Listed players based on career stats. I no longer have the Beckett of course.

Does anyone have any suggestions of a good way to go about this? I know I am not the only person who has this idea.

Let me know. Thanks.

 

[otgoal]

If you do it for trade purposes, it would be difficult, because people have different views on who is a minor star, etc.
If you do it for personal collection reasons, anyway you do it would be the correct way, because it's for you own collection.
I guess I'm saying, it wouldn't make any difference what others suggest, because it would be for your use.

 

[sandman43103]

Something I did for a friend a while back was take the "header" info from the base Topps sets on Beckett OPG and figure out which players fell into which category:

2010 Topps Base
COMMON CARD (1-660) $0.15 $0.40
MINOR STARS $0.15 $0.40
SEMISTARS $0.25 $0.60
UNLISTED STARS $0.40 $1.00
COMMON RC (1-660) $0.25 $0.60

Based on the above, you can see here:
https://sites.google.com/site/sandman43103/2010-topps-baseball

what category each player would be in. You could generalize each player and use the categories for all other years, too.

 

[Meliah]

People collect so many different players, or are team collectors, that I stopped sorting my cards the way you mentioned. Now I am just making a list for each player by last name--would've been a good idea if I did not have so many cards!

 

[tdoran70]

I had an old beckett that still listed professional players (not prospects) in the semi-Star, minor Star and unlisted star categories that I put into an excel spreadsheet. I don't have them broken up by category since I was putting these star cards into monster boxes alphabetically. I'd be happy to email it to you. PM me with your address and I will get it out to you.

 

[BiggioDiogu759]

Commons-Players that arent stars...

Stars-Players I have heard of haha