Team Collecting or Player Collecting?

[xpucksx]

I do both. In hockey specifically collect:

Teams:
Toronto Maple Leafs
Team Sweden

- I try to collect as many base type cards first. Anything else after that is "bonus". I try to make my base collections OPC up until 1991-92, then I add Upper Deck along side. There are soooo many relic and other super rare "one-off" cards that I will not pursue b/c I don't have the spare income to have the sets be that complete. I want the team sets to just be a representation of all the guys who played for the team that had a card made.

Players:
Borje Salming
Wendel Clark

- for my PC's I also start with all base type cards, but regardless of company. If I can then add in auto's, relics etc I will

I also am set collecting OPC starting from 1969-70 - current.

In baseball and football I also team collect and Player collect

[odjickfan]

I'm collecting Gino Odjick and I still have a large Marc-Antoine Pouliot collection.

When it comes to team collecting, I'm collecting Nordiques and Canadiens, and I keep the Oilers cards that I pull. But I'm not going for complete team collections, there is just way too much stuff.

[Tripredacus]

I've cut way back on team collecting. Currently I am only doing it for 2 teams and only 1 card per player. Anything more is either too many cards or too annoying for me to track. I also went back to just 1 player collection, rather than multiples, for the same reason.

[RT28]

Speaking of graded cards, check out my PC sections here:

http://s183.photobucket.com/user/ton...?sort=9&page=1

http://s183.photobucket.com/user/ton...?sort=9&page=1

Thoughts on my approach?

Nice collection! I like the approach a lot. I was once thinking about just getting a card of every autograph that is cool looking in my opinion.

[RT28]

Players:
Borje Salming
Wendel Clark

- for my PC's I also start with all base type cards, but regardless of company. If I can then add in auto's, relics etc I will

I also am set collecting OPC starting from 1969-70 - current.

In baseball and football I also team collect and Player collect

I always went for the big cards first for my PC's. Just figured you can always find the base cards and inserts somewhere! Like the collection!

[creasecollector]

I always went for the big cards first for my PC's. Just figured you can always find the base cards and inserts somewhere! Like the collection!

Good collecting strategy!

[xpucksx]

I always went for the big cards first for my PC's. Just figured you can always find the base cards and inserts somewhere! Like the collection!

I actually sort of do that, but in my world right now, some months $100 for a card means no food, heat or water...I have lived for many months without those three things in the past, but have gotten used to having them again it in the past 3 years now that work is more steady. I hope in another 2 or 3 the financial ship will finally be right and then it is going to be scary!!!

going on sights like this do 2 things to me:

1. makes me realize that I will never have all of the cards I want

2. gives me cool little "goals" that make me feel good about myself. Like, I work my ™™™™™ off all week...i deserve a few "presents" at the end. I am in the mind set that spending $10 on a ton of commons to fill out sets the more gratifying than $100 for 1 autograph card. Every weekend I go to the LCS and sift through the large boxes checking off large parts of my lists

That being said, when my tax return comes, I definitely am going to fill out 1 or 2 of the big ticket items on my want lists...the biggest being continuing my 1969-70 OPC hockey set...

that is the cool thing about the activity is it is so versatile. I love seeing what, and how everyone does it on the forums. Something somewhere sparked us all to focus on the love of sport in some way, and it manifests here

[Captain Habtastic]

I guess I'm more of a team collector, I do have Habs players I collect more than others (Price/Subban) but I never collect a single player to the extent that if they were traded, I'd be sitting on a huge pile of cards I no longer wanted. I'd be sitting on a small pile of cards I no longer wanted.

[TRDouble]

Between the two, I am more of a team collector.

But I like to collect sets, which feels impossible to collect full sets some times, but I love adding a new card to a group or set.

[sedinfan]

For an OCD collector like myself, I could never do team collecting. It's possible (albeit difficult and potentially expensive) to get a near complete (excluding 1/1's) collection of a player (I'm around 99 pct of mainstream Sedin cards excluding 1/1's), whereas with a whole team the competition for the flavour of the month rookie cards each year would be astronomically tougher. Of course you can limit it to certain parameters, but I'm kinda an all or nothing guy :) So for me it's player collecting and/or set collecting - the latter brings me back to the 80's when everyone was a set collector, not much is more satisfying than putting together a complete run of dozens or hundreds of cards from a set with a nice uniform look to them... especially if I can ever figure out a nice way to display them in a man-cave versus the only good way I have right now is to make digital collages to show them online :)