When I started collecting I bought a mix of playing days and new modern cards of my favorite legends. After learning more, seeing the avalanche of modern legends cards and watching your content, I focus much more on playing days cards and have found it much more enjoyable, the hunting and research makes the score much more fun!
100% agree mate. There are some great looking legend cards out there now for sure. But Topps/Panini will just keep releasing more of them as they sell the product. Making me appreciate playing days more.
Something ive learnt from you is the appreciation for "playing days" cards. I always enjoyed seeing the older pre-modern cards in terms of what I would have loved to have collected at the time growing up. With more and more legend cards coming out year-on-year for the same players you can see the effects of oversaturation on modern card prices. I always used to question why people focused on vintage baseball but its a similar case with pre-modern football cards where supply is quite low and even more so with cards in near perfect condition. I think youre ahead of the curve with this philosophy. Im really curious what the state of play will be like for the current market and generation with the same time gap as pre-modern in the future! Great video as always 👍🏻
Great to hear I have helped mate. Its hard to know if the importance of playing days cards will catch on. I hope so. Will mean more collectors get involved in premodern. As you say, only a few cards of a player per year and condition sensitive over time. Im pretty sure people will slowly become bored of modern sets. Hopefully they venture into premodern rather than leave the hobby all together.
I think when considering rarity though for modern cards, an orange /25 rookie of Garnacho is nice but it isn’t really rare. Garnacho would be in like 10-15 releases on his rookie year , meaning there are actually 250-300 cards of his that are /25 lol.
