Its back for the third time!
Up for grabs today is a stack of exactly 100 serial numbered cards. This stack probably wouldn't be interesting to team collectors or player collectors, as I am betting that most of the teams in MLB are in here somewhere. But if you are an omnivore collector like me, or want a quick way to accumulate trade bait, or just like serial numbered cards, this may be for you!
The rules this time might be a little convoluted, but I don't want to do the same thing every time.
To enter:
-Leave a comment here on this post.
-Guess the total sum of the serial numbers the card in the lot. So if there were three cards in the lot, one #/100, one #/ 999 and one #/25, the sum would be 100+1999+25 = 2124. Obviously, with 100 cards in the lot, the number you will be guessing will be much higher! This time, there is no penalty for going over, just closest to the number.
-Optional - in your comment, you may list up to 10 players that you think that there might be a card of in the lot. For each card in the lot of a player that you guess, you will get 5% of the difference between your guess and the actual total knocked off your guess. Example: Your guess is 500 off of the actual total, but there are 8 cards in the lot from players that you guessed. In this case, you would get 40% of the 500 that you were off, or 200. So your final guess would be 300 off.
Since I am allowing player guesses, no photo of the actual lot this time. But here's a silly pic so that the post isn't all text.
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He's not in the lot.... |
There are 13 Hall of Famers in this lot, but many of the cards are also of relative nobodies. The COMC.com value of this lot would be somewhat high.... the actual resale value is much lower of course.
The highest serial number in the lot is #/9000 and the lowest is #/5. I would not take the results from the last contest to be a perfect guide for your guesses, but do what makes you happy!
OK, that's all the hints, feel free to make your guess in the comments!
Guessing will close on Thursday, April 24th at 5PM Pacific time!