New Years Stats

I didn't get any cards today but I figured I could put out a New Years post. I need something to do after that embarrassment of a bowl game. If you follow my other blog, you know that I like to keep stats and I keep a few that are sports and sport cards related.

We'll start with sports watched. To qualify as a game watched, I have to watch at least 3/4 of the game, which for the most part, I probably watched it all anyways.

#3 - Football (14 games)

Most of these were Michigan games, to be honest, the only one I can think of that wasn't was the Super Bowl. I just can't get into the NFL anymore. Not because of the whole kneel thing, but I just don't enjoy the games anymore. I actually stopped watching the season before.

#2 - Basketball (32 games)

Most of these are Michigan games as well but it's 2 different teams as I watch both the men and woman's teams. There might be a Bulls game in there once or twice but I couldn't tell you for sure.

#1 - Baseball (56 games)

Other than the White Sox, the only game I can think of would be the All-Star game that I watched. There might be a Michigan baseball game or two as well. I watch them when they are on but they don't broadcast to many.

As you can tell, I'm not one of those guys that watched sports over and over. I tend to watch my teams and that's about it. I'm sure my wife appreciates that. All those other than 1 football game were watched on TV. I also went to a Michigan football game as well.

I also kept track of how many cards for each collection I received over the past year. Here's that breakdown.

Tier 1 player collections

Paul Konerko - 22 cards

Tom Seaver - 8 cards

Billy Williams - 2 cards

Mike Hart - 2 cards

Dave Dravecky - 0 cards

Luis Aparicio - 0 cards

The Dravecky at 0 doesn't surprise me as he doesn't have a ton of cards but the Aparicio does. I figured I'd get at least 1 or 2. 12 of the Konerko cards came from 2x3 Heroes and Too Many Verlanders which is why it's so high.

Tier 2 player collection

Barry Larkin - 41 cards

Chris Sale - 17 cards

Carlton Fisk - 9 cards

Devin Funchess - 7 cards

Jim Abbott - 6 cards

Caris LeVert - 5 cards

Mark Buehrle - 5 cards

Mitch McGary - 5 cards

AJ Pierzynski - 4 cards

Jake Butt - 3 cards

Denard Robinson - 2 cards

Michael Jordan - 2 cards

Nik Stauskas - 2 cards

Ryan Glasgow - 2 cards

Shoeless Joe Jackson - 2 cards

Taylor Lewan - 2 cards

Tim Hardaway jr - 2 cards

Trey Burke - 2 cards

Amaro Darbo - 1 card

DeVeon Smith - 1 card

Jabrill Peppers - 1 card

Jake Rudock - 1 card

Jehu Chesson - 1 card

Jourdan Lewis - 1 card

Taco Charlton - 1 card

Bill Melton - 0 cards

Chris Getz - 0 cards

Glenn Robinson III - 0 cards

Joe Crede - 0 cards

Mike Martin - 0 cards

A lot of those are Michigan players who will end up losing the player collection status. If I don't end up with at least 10 cards in a couple of years, their cards are no longer player collections since a lot of the times, the go pro but don't get a lot of cards produced or they get dropped from teams.

Tier 3 player collections

Cal Ripken jr - 41 cards

Mike Schmidt - 23 cards

Carl Yastrzemski - 20 cards

Steve Carlton - 16 cards

Gary Carter - 13 cards

Johnny Bench - 8 cards

Ryan Zimmerman - 7 cards

I imagine these numbers will slow down once I get most of the 80's cards of these players (except Zimmerman).

I also kept track of my team and vintage collection pick ups.

Vintage - 410 cards

White Sox - 260 cards

Michigan - 23 cards

Again, a lot of those vintage pick-ups were probably 80's cards because I can always come across those cheap.

Also, this year, I've gotten over 9,300 of my cards listed on my spreadsheet.

I had to split it into 2 pics to show you a small sample. The black on the far left means I have posted it on its separate blog as well. The purple means I have used it on my random card from my collection on my Twitter account (sportobsession6).

I also posted over 10,300 cards posted on My Personal Collections blog. It's been slow going but I've been getting there. The links on the card numbers on the spreadsheets above go to the corresponding page on this blog.

I posted 132 posts last year, which other than 2012 when I was doing 3 a day for awhile, is average for the years. It was also an increase from the last couple of years so that was good. I think posting when I get the cards has helped instead of being lazy and posting when I get around to it.

That's all I got for today. The mail starts up again tomorrow (along with work, blah!) so we'll get back to regular posting.