Card Totals and Tiers over the last 5 years

[Dolenz_PSN]

Here are your totals and a few charts showing card distributions over the last 5 years.
The main thing I find interesting is how fairly evenly 2021 and 2022 compare and then how evenly 2024 and 2025 compare on the first chart, with the first Sets and Seasons year of 2023 being the anomaly.

And in that Anomaly year of 2023 it was the 95-98 diamond tier that made up the main difference.

[Teak2112_MLBTS]

I think part of the reason I significantly prefer 2023 to the last two years is the high amount of 95-98s. These cards to me are the right balance between video gamey versions of the players while still maintaining the essence of the player.

And a would imagine 2025 took things even further in that the 99s are mostly well beyond 99. I assume thats what red diamond will be in 2026 (although I know it had a different meaning in an older version)

[Dolenz_PSN]

@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Card Totals and Tiers over the last 5 years:

And a would imagine 2025 took things even further in that the 99s are mostly well beyond 99. I assume thats what red diamond will be in 2026 (although I know it had a different meaning in an older version)

I just looked and the difference in the number of points applied in 99's is large

Honus Wagner has the most attribute points on his 99 with a total of 1,738
Vinnie Pasquantino has the fewest attribute points on his 99 with 1,180

But it is not straight forward with how stats are weighted. Masyn Winn's 83 overall Live Series card has only 32 fewer attribute points distributed than Pasquantino's 99 overall card. All of Winn's points come from Defense and Speed and Pasquantino's are in his hitting stats.

Now that I have my vault program updated with 2025 data I can compare any two cards in that time frame if you want and give you a screenshot of the comparison.