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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3533759, member: 76863"]The other issue is that it's really hard to have legitimate discussions with someone whose basic premise is in my day we did it better and the TPGs are evil. Everything being complained about happened before there even were TPGs but somehow PCGS/NGC are still at fault I guess. The old timey grading didn't even use all the MS grades so many were rounded such as 64s being rounded down so while some may think they had a tighter scale it really was just less accurate with more rounding. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention that their grading was already a departure from their previous generations but since they were the ones making the adjustments I guess it's okay it just shouldn't ever be adjusted again. There also should have been the foresight to say maybe we should have an actual 1-70 scale not a 1-58 with a 60-70 stacked on top of it with a hard line over a single issue such as rub.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's really not that complicated for someone to objectively look at how grading has evolved and seen that in every instance it is the market that evolves it, but some still just want to try and attack the TPGs at every turn[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3533759, member: 76863"]The other issue is that it's really hard to have legitimate discussions with someone whose basic premise is in my day we did it better and the TPGs are evil. Everything being complained about happened before there even were TPGs but somehow PCGS/NGC are still at fault I guess. The old timey grading didn't even use all the MS grades so many were rounded such as 64s being rounded down so while some may think they had a tighter scale it really was just less accurate with more rounding. Not to mention that their grading was already a departure from their previous generations but since they were the ones making the adjustments I guess it's okay it just shouldn't ever be adjusted again. There also should have been the foresight to say maybe we should have an actual 1-70 scale not a 1-58 with a 60-70 stacked on top of it with a hard line over a single issue such as rub. It's really not that complicated for someone to objectively look at how grading has evolved and seen that in every instance it is the market that evolves it, but some still just want to try and attack the TPGs at every turn[/QUOTE]
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