Superman2006

I would have liked your post, but laughed at your graphic (carping bricks) : )

No problem!

See below for CGC Grading Contest Awards Based on Cumulative Performance Through Contest #10 + Other miscellaneous stats through Contest #10 As usual, the cumulative CGC grading contest rankings ignore tie breaker rounds. Following are the "MVP", "Diamond Club", and "Honor Roll" award winners based on performance through the first 10 CGC grading contests (as usual, I set the qualifying requirement at 50% x total contests to date - 0.25 = 50% x 10 - 0.25 = 4.75 contests). P.S. For anyone that isn't included on the list below (either because they haven't met the 4.75 contests requirement, or because their average score is below the cutoff): If you'd like to know your average score / rounds completed, etc., either reply in this thread if you want me to post your details here, or shoot me a PM and I'll respond via PM.

Thanks, buddy, and congrats on the awesome finish. It would have been good enough for Top Rookie, but as it is, it helps with your overall overage. With 4 total rounds, you're getting close to meeting the number of rounds requirement for the cumulative rankings results that I put together.

Anytime! Thanks to you, Matt, and CGC for putting on another great contest!!

Based on results of the survey I am preparing updated cumulative top 50 rankings through contest #10 now, and will release the results shortly. @CGC Mike - As part of my updates, I also update the "Rookie of the Year" (which I should probably call "Top Rookie" since we have 4 contests per year). To that end: I am seeing what appears to be a new entrant named @Nschenks in contest #10, however, I see that there was an Nsschenks that participated in 3 prior contests. Do you know if that is the same boardie? Is there a subforum that provides name changes that you can point me to? If so, then maybe I can reference that in order to better keep all cumulative rankings together for a given participant across all of their usernames. Presumably not too many name changes, so probably not a big deal.

Congrats to the @Axelrod @zzutak @Cerebus3000 on your top 3 finishes, and to @Ride the Tiger on winning the 6th place award donated by @Get Marwood & I! @CGC Mike - Based on the grades posted for each participant in the version you posted for me, I came up with the same total scores for each participant in my spreadsheet, so your math looks good to me. I'll update the cumulative top 50 rankings through contest #10 and post the results in an hour or two.

You are correct. I'll set the minimum contest requirement to qualify for the top 50 cumulative rankings list through contest #10 at 4.75 contests (as usual, I take total contests divided by two subtract 0.25 = 10 / 2 - 0.25 = 4.75). by completing all 4 rounds of this contest you'll have 5 total contests under your belt through contest #10.

There were a couple of books this contest where I felt a bit disadvantaged by not having a copy of the CGC grading guide. I missed one of the two books by 1 point, but missed the other (SW #8) by 4 points!

Hi @Cerebus3000 In terms of CGC consistency/inconsistency, I did some analysis a while back, through the 6th grading contest, in an attempt to follow Aristotle's "wisdom of the crowd" concept, whereby "large groups of people are collectively smarter than individual experts...". As a result of that analysis, I found that the CGC grader(s) would have ranked 3rd overall if measured against the performance of the top 50 graders through the 6th grading contest (with an average score just 1.5 behind @jbpez and just 0.2 behind @TheGeneral through the first 6 contests). To me that is a very very impressive ranking, and within the margin of error of being the best grader out of all participants. I could refresh that analysis through the first 10 contests if you'd like. As part of that refreshed analysis, I could provide an alternative cumulative grading test top 50 for everyone else as well, as measured against the top 50 boardies average grade per book. I could reduce the top 50 to say the top 25, or top 10 like you suggest. I think that would provide you with some comfort about CGC grading consistency. Individually and as a group we may occasionally disagree with the grade CGC has given a book(s) in this contest, but I for one am sure that I have "missed the mark" on some books a lot more than CGC has. Let me know that would provide what you're looking for (if not, it's getting late and I have a headache, so that's my excuse )

Yup, so far 3 votes for cracked and nil for the other options

Thanks, buddy, and good luck to you and all other remaining contenders for this contest, in finishing in the top 3, or picking up the generous 6th place prize offered up by @Get Marwood & I!

Back when I joined the CGC boards in 2006, it seemed like every poll had a crack option. I think it's basically an option for those that read the poll that don't really care either way. Someone else more familiar with the history or the "crack option" may be able to provide a clearer definition (or if no one else knows what I'm talking about, then maybe I'm on crack lol)

I haven't started a poll in forever, so hopefully I did this right : )

Ditto for me, 8 pts, knowing that the SW8 could kill my score. I graded it a 6.0 as well due to the horrendous looking staples / stains. I wanted to give it a 6.5 at first, but brought it down to a 6.0. I figured it would end up somewhere between a 4.0 and 8.0, so I split the difference.