{"id":1797,"date":"2024-10-07T19:36:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2024-10-07T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:36:08","slug":"august-2024-grading-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"August 2024 Grading Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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August 2024 PSA Grading Recap<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n
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  • PSA graded 1,397,357 items during August; total output increased by 10% vs July and was up 13% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/h5>\n
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    Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

    TCG and football had the largest impact in August<\/p>\n

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    • TCG was 37% of cards graded in August (up from 32% in July and June).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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      Set Summary – Sports & Other<\/u><\/p>\n

      2023 Donruss Optic football moved into the top spot<\/p>\n

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      Set Summary – TCG+<\/u><\/p>\n

      Japanese Pokemon 151 maintained a strong lead over English 151<\/p>\n

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      Player Summary – Sports & Other<\/u><\/p>\n

      Wembanyama remains the story<\/p>\n

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      Subject Summary – TCG<\/u><\/p>\n

      Charizard’s lead over Pikachu narrows<\/p>\n

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      Card Summary – Sports & Other<\/u><\/p>\n

      Paul Skenes jumps into the top 5 cards<\/p>\n


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      Card Summary – TCG<\/u><\/p>\n

      2024 cards are moving up the chart<\/p>\n


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      What’s Next for PSA?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • \nPSA set a new record high in August, driven by a resurgence in TCG. This marks the strongest TCG performance since January and may have influenced PSA’s decision to offer another Pokemon special in September.\n<\/li>\n
      • \nSeptember results often track closely with August, so would not be surprised to see between 1.3 and 1.4 million cards graded during the month.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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        August 2024 SGC Grading Recap<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n
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        • SGC graded 166,925 items during August; total output decreased by 14% vs July and was up 40% year-over-year.<\/li>\n
        • Note that grading activity would be down just 3% compared to July if not for the one-time adjustment last month. As a reminder, SGC had 22,000 cards added to July totals to account for cards GemRate missed during the May and June reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/h5>\n
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          Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          Multi sport and soccer outperformed in August<\/p>\n

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          Set Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          2024 Bowman was the top graded set<\/p>\n

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          Player (& Subject) Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          Jordan moves back ahead of Wembanyama<\/p>\n

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          Card Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          Wembanyama cracks the top 10<\/p>\n

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          What’s Next for SGC?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • \nSGC activity dipped slightly in August, with a roughly 3% decline compared to July when looking at comparable results.
            \nLooking ahead to September, SGC launched a generous Topps Chrome special, which could help push results beyond recent trends.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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            Other Graders – CGC<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n

            Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

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            Set Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

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            Card Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

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            What’s Next for CGC?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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            • \nCGC’s TCG results have been relatively consistent throughout 2024, with monthly grading volumes ranging between 150k and 170k. However, August saw the lowest activity of the year, dipping just below 150k.\n<\/li>\n
            • \nIn contrast, CGC sports maintained most of its July momentum, grading over 20k cards again in August.\n<\/li>\n
            • \nCGC recently announced a collaboration with Fanatics Collect to offer extremely affordable and fast grading for cards listed on the platform. CGC deserves credit for consistently pushing the boundaries via partnerships, and this one will certainly be worth watching.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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              Other Charts – Beckett<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n

              Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

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              Card Summary – Sports<\/u><\/p>\n

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              Card Summary – TCG<\/u><\/p>\n

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              What’s Next for Beckett?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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              • \nBeckett\u2019s results showed meaningful improvement in August, though the year-over-year trend remains downward.
                \nAnother month of gains would be a positive sign for Beckett, although the catalyst for that improvement isn’t immediately clear.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                August 2024 PSA Grading Recap PSA graded 1,397,357 items during August; total output increased by 10% vs July and was up 13% year-over-year. Category Summary TCG and football had the largest impact in August TCG was 37% of cards graded in August (up from 32% in July and June). Set Summary – Sports & Other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1799,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[39],"class_list":{"0":"post-1797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-gemrate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}