2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Spring Edition (#2) Round 2 results! 4 4

[Superman2006]

On 5/4/2022 at 1:42 PM, zzutak said:

My pleasure.    Here's a comparison of the Contest #1 and Contest #2 attrition (drop-out) data.  The procedures currently in place are clearly leading to a more committed field of players.  

Contest #	1	2
Signed Up (Rd-0)	354	154
Rd-1 Players	203	134
Rd-0 to Rd-1 Drop-Outs	151	20
Rd-0 to Rd-1 Drop Out %	43%	13%
Rd-2 Players	152	113
Rd-1 to Rd-2 Drop-Outs	51	21
Rd-1 to Rd-2 Drop Out %	25%	16%

After a given round, some entrants will obviously rank higher than others. I wonder what the average score is for those that stick around to the next round vs. those that drop out, and what was the best score amongst those that dropped out vs. the best score amongst those that stuck around.

If I had more time, I'd take a look, but I don't, so I won't, ha ha.

[Axelrod]

So, personally I think 5 is a really excellent score for a given round, at 1 grade off per book.  

Which means that if I want to have an average a score of 5 for the whole contest, I only need to average -.5 for each of the next two rounds!  This should be doable, I'm thinking.  

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

Just when I was hoping to climb out of the scores from the first round instead

 

 

Let's just say my race to the bottom is getting faster.

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 5/4/2022 at 4:06 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Just when I was hoping to climb out of the scores from the first round instead

 

 

Let's just say my race to the bottom is getting faster.

 

Gotta go fast, faster, fastahfastahfastah!

I did notice but I'll say everyone is allowed one round of cliff jumping haha 

Mine was in the first round.

 

 

[CGC Mike]

On 5/4/2022 at 2:33 PM, kav said:

 

so will there be poss 9.8s in contest?

Yes

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 5/4/2022 at 4:27 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Gotta go fast, faster, fastahfastahfastah!

I did notice but I'll say everyone is allowed one round of cliff jumping haha 

Mine was in the first round.

 

 

Nice sentiment.  However I seem to be on a perpetual cliff. 

[ttfitz]

On 5/4/2022 at 2:51 PM, Superman2006 said:

After a given round, some entrants will obviously rank higher than others. I wonder what the average score is for those that stick around to the next round vs. those that drop out, and what was the best score amongst those that dropped out vs. the best score amongst those that stuck around.

If I had more time, I'd take a look, but I don't, so I won't, ha ha.

I can't answer that specifically, but I can tell you something related. Being in the bottom area of the rankings, I tried judging things by counting how many people were behind me. There were less after round 2 than round 1, which surprised me as I had improved with the second round. So I did a quick comparison from the top, and found I had moved up 11 spots.

So I'd say most of the folks dropping out had lower rankings, which makes some sense.

[ttfitz]

On 5/4/2022 at 3:28 PM, Axelrod said:

So, personally I think 5 is a really excellent score for a given round, at 1 grade off per book.  

Yeah, personally I consider a score of 0-5 per round is a perfect score - I think we probably all agree that a 0.5 difference either way is probably as much a function of what you had for lunch as anything.

[kav]

On 5/4/2022 at 10:02 PM, ttfitz said:

Yeah, personally I consider a score of 0-5 per round is a perfect score - I think we probably all agree that a 0.5 difference either way is probably as much a function of what you had for lunch as anything.

yep.  its basically  a CGC grade as resubmitting can result often in that much difference.
Maybe CGC should start grading in a range and put on labels like "4.5-5.0"   

I mean really its not as crazy as it sounds-its more accurate in many ways-
 

Mike pass the idea up the food chain.

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 5/5/2022 at 12:00 AM, ttfitz said:

I can't answer that specifically, but I can tell you something related. Being in the bottom area of the rankings, I tried judging things by counting how many people were behind me. There were less after round 2 than round 1, which surprised me as I had improved with the second round. So I did a quick comparison from the top, and found I had moved up 11 spots.

So I'd say most of the folks dropping out had lower rankings, which makes some sense.

So that's why I moved down so many places! 

Spoiler

Actually my grades are why I moved down so many.. 

On 5/5/2022 at 12:02 AM, ttfitz said:

Yeah, personally I consider a score of 0-5 per round is a perfect score - I think we probably all agree that a 0.5 difference either way is probably as much a function of what you had for lunch as anything.

Funny as looking back at some of my scores/grades I was of the mind that they looked more like after expelling my lunch. 

[grendelbo]

On 5/4/2022 at 11:13 PM, kav said:

Maybe CGC should start grading in a range and put on labels like "4.5-5.0"   

I mean really its not as crazy as it sounds-its more accurate in many ways-

Or maybe a range like this -

NM

VF

FN

VG

GD

FR/PR

Old school simple and less questionable.

[kav]

On 5/4/2022 at 10:17 PM, grendelbo said:

Or maybe a range like this -

NM

VF

FN

VG

GD

FR/PR

Old school simple and less questionable.

[kav]

On 5/4/2022 at 10:17 PM, grendelbo said:

Or maybe a range like this -

NM

VF

FN

VG

GD

FR/PR

Old school simple and less questionable.

how abt

Bad
Good
Great
Omg

[kav]

buyers on ebay would still say "you listed this as good and its clearly bad!" tho-

[kav]

Even if grading was
+
-

ppl would say "You listed this as a + and its a - !!"

[kav]

Hell even if there was only one grade:
Exists

buyers would disgree!!  

[ttfitz]

On 5/5/2022 at 1:17 AM, grendelbo said:

Or maybe a range like this -

NM

VF

FN

VG

GD

FR/PR

Old school simple and less questionable.

Or if you really want to go old school:

Mint
Fine
Good
Fair
Poor

[kav]

"We certify this comic exists and is not some hologram or imaginary story-"

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 5/5/2022 at 12:20 AM, kav said:

how abt

Naw

Bad
Good
Great
Omg

FTFY 

[grendelbo]

Any guess (I hate calling it that) within 2 grades of what CGC calls a book is something to be proud of.

A grade off is excellent grading by CGC standards.

A bulleye is excellent grading with the same luck as a flip of a coin.

3 grades off show that you know how to grade pretty well.