Point Five's 4th Annual Grading Contest: FINAL RESULTS 3 3

[Point Five]

Final Results:   
 

Edited June 25, 2023 by Point Five

[Point Five]

Round 4 Grade Distributions:

10. Strange Fantasy #7: CGC 3.5
11. Wanted Comics #50: CGC 4.0
12. Wanted Comics #52: CGC 4.0

Edited June 25, 2023 by Point Five

[Point Five]

Congrats to @jbpez, the winner of this grading contest! 

Honorable mention to @pretzelz2001 and @scburdet, who tied for 2nd and just narrowly missed the top slot!  

And big ups to everyone who played and soldiered on to the end. As I mentioned, I had the most misses I've ever had on any submission... in broad strokes, about half of you outperformed the guesses I made **with the books literally in hand.** That's really impressive.  

 

[grendelbo]

Congratulations to @jbpez!

And to all top finishers and graders.

Fun as always with equally great books.

[Black_Adam]

Congrats to the champ 🏆 

And thanks for the fast, fun contest @Point Five

Looking forward to the sales thread for these golden age gems and the automatic 20% discount always extended to all contest participants!   

[grendelbo]

Here's my simple analysis. Nowhere near on par with what @zzutakwill provide.

4 contestants tied with the most bullseyes (6) -

@jbpez

@Mars76

@BriD.

@grendelbo

 

Spot-on grading, gents. 

[zzutak]

For completeness, here are the key measures of central tendency for Round 4 (Mean = the average grade; Median = the middle grade in a numerically rank-ordered list; Mode = the most common grade):

Book	CGC	Grade Distribution Statistics
#	Grade	Mean	Median	Mode
10	3.5	3.9	4.0	3.5
11	4.0	4.5	4.5	4.0
12	4.0	3.6	3.5	4.0

Here are a few notable observations based on the data reported above:

• Book #10 (Strange Fantasy #7):  An easy book for the Board as a whole, with 35% of the contestants at the same grade as CGC and 74% within one grade increment of CGC.  Collectively, the Board was almost one grade increment more lenient than CGC (3.9 vs 3.5).
• Book #11 (Wanted #50):  Another easy book for the Board as a whole, with 29% of the contestants at the same grade as CGC and 61% within one grade increment of CGC.  Collectively, the Board was one grade increment more lenient than CGC (4.5 vs 4.0).
• Book #12 (Wanted #52):  Yet another easy book for the Board as a whole, with 26% of the contestants at the same grade as CGC and 65% within one grade increment of CGC.  Collectively, the Board was almost one grade increment more critical than CGC (3.6 vs 4.0).

Ten very sweet issues that one rarely sees here on the Boards (plus two others that only rate a    from me).  Many thanks for the opportunity, Jon.  It was a lot of fun.   

[Black_Adam]

I might have had a chance if I hadn't scored 1 pt in the first round.   

[Point Five]

On 6/24/2023 at 10:33 PM, Black_Adam said:

Looking forward to the sales thread for these golden age gems and the automatic 20% discount always extended to all contest participants!   

I'm going to be using the Mile High Chuck business model going forward. As an example, the ASM #300 CGC 8.0 is $3275, but feel free to use the 50% off codeword. 

 

[davidking623]

[topofthetotem]

Fun contest!

[Krismusic]

Thanks for running the contest it was fun! 

[Nschenks]

Super fun thanks for running it! I’m still pretty bad with GA and lower grade books in general, so this was awesome practice

[Sandflea]

Thanks again for running this great contest!  See you again soon! 

[frozentundraguy]

Another fine contest, with books seldom seen. Thanks!!

[universal soldier]

@Point Five thanks for putting this together.  I did a rush job on the first two rounds and it showed but at least I finished a little stronger to make it respectable. 

[thehumantorch]

On 6/24/2023 at 8:22 PM, Point Five said:

Congrats to @jbpez, the winner of this grading contest! 

Honorable mention to @pretzelz2001 and @scburdet, who tied for 2nd and just narrowly missed the top slot!  

And big ups to everyone who played and soldiered on to the end. As I mentioned, I had the most misses I've ever had on any submission... in broad strokes, about half of you outperformed the guesses I made **with the books literally in hand.** That's really impressive.  

 

Thanks for running these contests Jon, always fun and appreciated.

Did I hear a rumor that the winner of the contest gets all of the books graded in the contest as a prize?  

[Point Five]

On 6/26/2023 at 9:13 PM, thehumantorch said:

Thanks for running these contests Jon, always fun and appreciated.

Did I hear a rumor that the winner of the contest gets all of the books graded in the contest as a prize?  

You've got it partly right... per my terms and conditions, the winner of the contest pays all the submission fees. A little harsh maybe but I think it's fair?  

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Glad to be a part of it, was fun to try and discern! Thanks again!

[Funnybooks]

I had some time today to go back and to check out the contest. Very impressive showings by all given the difficulty and very wide range of books in this years contest. As always, Jon mixed the various presenting types of defects well. Congrats to Jeff for an amazing comeback... @jbpez.
If history is any indication, If I were lucky and on my game, I may  have ended up at or below @grendelbo as our interpretation of "grading" is very much in alignment. Until next time fellas. Cheers!