2005 Bowman Chrome Baseball assumption

[Xanadu]

Red refractors come about 1/case, or that's about what I've seen from people's breaks.

There's 5 of each player, and there's 330 cards in the set.

So that makes 1650 total red refractors. At one per case, that means only 1,650 cases of this stuff were made.

Does anyone agree with those numbers? Am I missing something?

[S.A.M.]

This is how I would calculate it. I took a look at the 2005 Bowman Chrome sell sheets on gcxonline.com.

The sell sheets said that there are 5 refractors per box, and that there are 4 Refractors per box and 1 X-Fractor per box, leaving the rest of the refractors (Super Fractor, Red Refractor, Gold Refractor, Blue Refractor) to show up at almost 0 per box. Since there are no odds given on how many Red Refractors there are per case we can't use your method to calculate the size of the 2005 Bowman product run. Although we can use X-Fractors to do this.

According to the sell sheets there is 1 X-Fractor per box, each of which is #ed to 225. Since there are 330 base cards there is a total of 330 x 225 = 74,250 X-Fractors and because there is 1 per box there is also 74,250 boxes of 2005 Bowman Chrome. Which at 12 boxes a case would mean there is about 6,200 cases of 2005 Bowman Chrome being sold. Using the numbers for the Red Refractors, the odds of getting one are more like 1 in 4 cases instead of 1 per case.

Hope that helps.

[Xanadu]

1 in 4 cases. Christmas Trees. And yet they're selling for less than $100 (for the most part) on ebay. Cases are up to about $750, so you'ld have to rip $3K worth of product to pull a red refractor. Then again, after 4 cases you'ld probably get a few other decent cards but still those numbers are staggering.

Thanks for the input, S.A.M.!

[TheTGB]

Don't forget the Printing plates which could replace the red refractor as the hit per case.

[blb718]

Is it possible to pull more than 1 x-fractor per box?

[TheTGB]

Yea, I've pulled 2 x-fractors in a box before.

[jaybiddyforeal]

as well as printig plates there are gold superfractors that are 1/1s that could be the "hit" of the case.

james

[Jonnieboy]

Bowman chrome will have alot of other stuff than red refractors.


Ebay actually killed the single markets IMHO. You need to sell your cards so cheap to sell alot. I remember 8 years ago people use to pay 50% BV on most singles or more. Nevertheless.
Today at my hobby shop someone bought a Bowman Chrome yankee player GU BV$30 for 40 bucks. I wanted to tell him bout ebay where he can get the same card probably for $10 or less, but was kinda impressed how people still buy them at that price.

[Xanadu]

I didn't think Bowman Chrome has ever had any GU cards. And if it's a 2005, the book isn't out yet.

I don't know, man. I know there was a big hullaballoo about your box break posts, and I gotta say some of your posts are really suspect.

[Jonnieboy]

I didn't think Bowman Chrome has ever had any GU cards. And if it's a 2005, the book isn't out yet.

I don't know, man. I know there was a big hullaballoo about your box break posts, and I gotta say some of your posts are really suspect.

Well good to see another one of *****.

It was from bowman relics GU bat of Arod. Which BV$ only $15 not even $30.NOT CHROME MY MISTAKE. I asked him today.
And yes he did sell it at $40 bucks.
What was such a suspect? Are u just mad? :new_shock