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Does Upper Deck release info on the amount of Upper Deck Series 1 that it made? I'm curious to know if anyone has done the math and figured out approximately how many of each Young Gun RC are produced.
 
I think I saw a thread like this on a board before and that number that they got was 5000 give or take a thousand or so.
 
Sounds like a Chad Soon type project...

Regardless, UD does not release production numbers on a product like this. There's a lot of by guess and by golly when it comes to calculating numbers...Even a product like The Cup where everything is numbered...we end up having to make a lot of assumptions to get any kind of calculations that make sense.
 
pretty tough to figure out with Hobby, retail, fatpacks, blister boxes etc.. I would guess 5000 is low
 
RyanCalgary has done the math on this a couple of times. But, there are some assumptions that have to be made in this calculation, so the resulting number is speculative at best.
 
Guilty. You can figure out a good ballpark for hobby because of the numbered inserts that are case hits. Retail is tougher. I'd say multiply the total by 2-3 to get it. I think 5,000 is probably a reasonable guess, since I think the Hobby total is usually about 2,000.
 
FrankToronto said:
I seem to recall back in '05-06 that the assumption was 4,000 of each YG was printed.
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I don't remember the exact method used and assumptions made but I know one of our number cruncher locals had it figured in excess of 10,000 for 05-06. The hobby number was somewhere around 7-8K alone IIRC.


Darren
 
Yikes 10,000 copies?!?!

Makes you wonder how YG'S are worth so much more than the Trilogy, SPGU RC's #'d /999.
 
There are three or four "pedigreed" rookie cards: SPx, SPA, recently The Cup...and the Upper Deck Young Gun. These are generally considered the "should have" rookies for the rookie card collector.
 
dahabsfan said:
I don't remember the exact method used and assumptions made but I know one of our number cruncher locals had it figured in excess of 10,000 for 05-06. The hobby number was somewhere around 7-8K alone IIRC.


Darren
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LOL your probally right, I remember reading awhile ago that Crosby send home a box full of yg's etc home to his parents so they could hand them out for Halloween, I have read the UD book, and I truly believe that there is nothing stopping UD from firing up the presses for some extra YG's since they are not numbered, I better stop my rant LOL
 
quincy said:
There are three or four "pedigreed" rookie cards: SPx, SPA, recently The Cup...and the Upper Deck Young Gun. These are generally considered the "should have" rookies for the rookie card collector.
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I have the impression that the SPx RCs are slowly moving out of that group. They sell well at release, because they are on the market before most of the high-end RCs. But, sticker autographes and not-so-great designs are hurting them, in a market with many high-end options.
 
odjickfan said:
I have the impression that the SPx RCs are slowly moving out of that group. They sell well at release, because they are on the market before most of the high-end RCs. But, sticker autographes and not-so-great designs are hurting them, in a market with many high-end options.
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Agreed. SPx has been losing its luster in the past few seasons, probably thanks to a glut of similar offerings in other products. Otherwise I think Steve is right on that UD, SPA, and The Cup are the three to own.
 
if OPC premier keeps making sets, i can see them taking the spot of SPX in tems of must have rookie cards.
the quad patch along with a hard auto make it my favorite set of last year.

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