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    Thumbs up How many boxes of a product are typically produced?

    I know proset was a little over the top lol. Also I read somewhere that iirc it was topps Tiffany where only a couple hundred cases were produced I think. I might be wrong... I usually am. So does anyone have an answer to my question?

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    I've thought about this question as well. This information is not released to the public. I think there is a way to calculate quite accurately how much The Cup is produced. Every tin of The Cup has 1 RPA, sometimes 2 but not very often, not often enough for this method to calculate the total amount produced to be totally inaccurate.

    I was thinking to figure out how much Cup is produced is to multiply the total number of different RPA's #'d to 249 by 249, same thing for the RPA's #'d to 99 and that should give us a fairly accurate represenation of how much The Cup was made. I'm going to try it.

    There are 66 RPA's #'d to 249: 66*249=16,434
    There are 6 RPA's #'d to 99: 6*99=594

    A total of 17,028 RPA's produced for 11/12 The Cup. Divide by 6 gives us exactly 2838 cases of The Cup produced. I don't know if this theory works or not, maybe some smarter people might have something to add!

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    I've thought about this question as well. This information is not released to the public. I think there is a way to calculate quite accurately how much The Cup is produced. Every tin of The Cup has 1 RPA, sometimes 2 but not very often, not often enough for this method to calculate the total amount produced to be totally inaccurate.

    I was thinking to figure out how much Cup is produced is to multiply the total number of different RPA's #'d to 249 by 249, same thing for the RPA's #'d to 99 and that should give us a fairly accurate represenation of how much The Cup was made. I'm going to try it.

    There are 66 RPA's #'d to 249: 66*249=16,434
    There are 6 RPA's #'d to 99: 6*99=594

    A total of 17,028 RPA's produced for 11/12 The Cup. Divide by 6 gives us exactly 2838 cases of The Cup produced. I don't know if this theory works or not, maybe some smarter people might have something to add!

    your math seems sound to me, but does not take into account the boxes with multiple arps's seen a couple with 3 arps /249 and also some with no arp's.

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    your math seems sound to me, but does not take into account the boxes with multiple arps's seen a couple with 3 arps /249 and also some with no arp's.

    Ya I mentioned that in my hypothesis, I don't think it happens very often. Chances are good to make up for those occurrences the total number of cases produced could be 2800.

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    They probably release a lot, then keep making them that whole year, so it's hard to say

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    They probably release a lot, then keep making them that whole year, so it's hard to say

    Fortunately the days of "second printings" of products are a thing of the past.

    With the volume of releases that each company produces, there's no time or resources to be constantly printing out new "waves" of individual products. That stuff costs money, and while they do have their own production facilities, it's a pretty costly process, not to mention having to dedicate people to collating insert ratios, procuring new batches of autographs, etc.

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    Obviously, each product out there will have varying print runs. High-end items like Prime, Ultimate Memorabilia, The Cup, etc. will be on a more limited basis - every card is serial-numbered and that has allowed some of our more mathematically inclined friends to calculate just how much of a product is out there. For some of its super-premium products (Superlative Bleu Blanc Rouge, as an example) ITG will state that "only xxx books are being produced" of the release.

    Usually, companies will use cases as their guideline for production moreso than boxes.
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    Here are some numbers:

    Pacific Exclusive 02-03 hobby: around 8000 boxes doing some maths
    BAP SS 02-03: 800 cases of 20 boxes
    ITG Forever Rivals, Captain-C and some similar products: 4000 boxes
    ITG Enforcers: around 7000 boxes doing some maths
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    Topps and Bowman Tiffany from 1990-91 only 400 Cases of each produced.

    I think that the UD Stanley Cup Champs Issue from 2001-02 there were only about 300 cases or less produced. They are like Hen's Teeth to find the Base cards.

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    How many cases of the last edition of UD 1 French?

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    I did the math on 12/13 Upper Deck a while back...it's not pretty!

    (not sure if the formatting will hold)

    Upper Deck 12/13 By the numbers
    250 cards set
    100 Exclusives per card
    10 Excl. Spectrum per card
    27500 Total Excl produced
    48 packs per Exclusive
    1320000 packs produced
    55000 boxes produced
    CHECK
    30 Clear Cut Found. # to 25 750
    6 CC Hon Mem. 100 600
    12 CC Leaders 10 120
    6 CC Pride Can Current 100 600
    6 CC Pride Can Ret 100 600
    6 CC Pride Russia 100 600
    6 CC Pride Finland 100 600
    6 CC Pride Sweden 100 600
    6 CC Pride USA 100 600
    5070 cards Acetate
    288 packs per Acetate
    1460160 packs produced
    60840 boxes produced
    Between 1320000 and 1460160 packs produced
    Implies One in
    Young Guns 4 330000 to 365040 produced
    Set 50 6600 7301 each
    YG Canvas 48 27500 30420 produced
    Set 30 917 1014 each
    Canvas 6 220000 243360 produced
    Set 90 2444 2704 each
    Hockey Heroes 12 110000 121680 produced
    Set 12 9167 10140 each
    HH Header and Art 600 2200 2434 each produced
    MVP 6 220000 243360 produced
    Set 50 4400 4867 each
    Silver Skates 12 110000 121680 produced
    Set 30 3667 4056 each
    SS SP 120 11000 12168 produced
    Set 10 1100 1217 each
    SS Gold 320 4125 4563 produced
    Set 30 138 152 each
    SS Gold SP 2880 458 507 produced
    Set 10 46 51 each
    UD Game Jersey (92)
    Group A 20176 65 72 produced
    Set Estimate 1 65 72 each
    Group B 4112 321 355 produced
    Set Estimate 2 161 178 each
    Group C 1154 1144 1265 produced
    Set Estimate 4 286 316 each
    Group D 321 4112 4549 produced
    Set Estimate 4 1028 1137 each
    Group E 210 6286 6953 produced
    Set Estimate 1 6286 6953 each
    Group F 139 9496 10505 produced
    Set Estimate 4 2374 2626 each
    Group G 57 23158 25617 produced
    Set Estimate 16 1447 1601 each
    Group H 20 66000 73008 produced
    Set Estimate 60 1100 1217 each
    300 Win Club 864 1528 1690 produced
    Set 8 191 211 each
    Requisite Radiance 432 3056 3380 produced
    Set 60 51 56 each
    Signature Sensations (100)
    Group A 18468 71 79 produced
    Set Estimate 8 9 10 each
    Group B 2301 574 635 produced
    Set Estimate 15 38 42 each
    Group C 735 1796 1987 produced
    Set Estimate 27 67 74 each
    Group D 591 2234 2471 produced
    Set Estimate 50 45 49 each
    Overall 1:288 288 4583 5070 produced
    Actual by sum of estimates (check) 4675 5171

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