Fun with screencaps

 While I no longer type in each card after each scanning wave (something I actually miss now) I do still update each person's total. That will never change. A recent change however is that now I screencap the leaderboards after each wave, something I started doing with the 14th wave and something I now wish I had been doing since day 1. These are a lot of fun to look at! The NBA and NASCAR charts don't show much change...I started screencapping them too late for that, everyone is pretty much already established where they are going to be, although there is some movement depending on if I scan a batch of somebody. 

Where it's really fun is the NHL chart...since I'm still fairly new to the sport, and the scanning is still very much in process, not nearing the end like my other two sports, there is some massive fluctuation. 

Today the idea hit me to open them all up and take a look at them compared to each other. Naturally, I screencapped that, too.

as you can see (and I recommend clicking on it to make it bigger) Henrik Lundqvist has been leading since I began screencapping, although it's probably inevitable that Wayne Gretzky will pass him some day. That won't be any time soon. But let's take a look at the progression of 3 of my other favorite players:

Mats Zuccarello starts at 12th in the 14th wave, before jumping to 8th in the 15th wave, then moving up to 2nd in the 16th wave! He dropped back to 4th in the 17th wave. My favorite skater in the league, he simply doesn't get enough cards to maintain a top 5 ranking for very long. I only have 2 more awaiting scans, one of which I got as a gift after I finished the most recent typing wave. He didn't have even a single card scanned in the 17th wave, which I completed typing in last week. 

P.K. Subban was 24th in the 14th wave, but jumps all the way up to 6th in the 15th wave, thanks to my winning a contest on the Trading Card Database where the prize was a pack of P.K. cards. He dropped a spot to 7th in the 16th wave, thanks to Mats moving past him. He's now in a tie for 8th with Marc-Andre Fleury, but Marc-Andre will pass him soon, as I have more cards of Marc-Andre awaiting scans, including 3 I got just this week. 

Brent Burns started out 26th, fell to 28th, then jumped back up to 23rd and now 20th. For being a favorite player he certainly isn't leading the way in card collection rate, but hopefully I can get him into the top 10 at some point. 

Another player I like to keep an eye on is Vincent Lecavalier. My friend who gave me over 2000 hockey cards back in 2015, that's his favorite player, and when I began collecting the sport officially in 2017, Lecavalier was 1st in my NHL collection, as my friend Ricky gave me all his duplicates. If I had thought to start screencapping when I began collecting, you would have seen Lecavalier in the #1 spot. By the 14th wave, he was 21st, before jumping up to 18th (on the strength of the cards Ricky sent me getting scanned, I have only gotten 1 or 2 new ones of him since then). By the 16th wave he had dropped down to 30th, and now in the 17th wave, he doesn't make the leaderboard at all! I didn't scan any cards of him in the 17th wave. 

Interestingly, only one player has held the same position in all 4 waves I've screencapped, and that is Henrik in first. 

I normally do two waves a year. I typed wave 17 from January 16th through 27th. Because I spent the second half of last year working solely on models, not scanning hardly anything at all (only working on cards when it was raining out and I couldn't work on models, and it was a drought, so maybe 3 days from August to November) I only did one wave in all of 2020. I probably don't have enough time to do another wave before the modeling season starts again but I can't build in the summer, it's too hot to open the windows...remember I have trouble breathing in the heat. What I am trying to say is that I hope it's not another 11 months between waves like it was between wave 16 and wave 17. 

I made one other change in this wave, something I knew I would always end up doing, I just hadn't done yet. While I'm not typing the standard size cards into the chart, I AM typing the oversized cards in. Since they can't be stored in the boxes with the other cards that I label if they are scanned or not, I type them in...no ambiguity of "have I or haven't I?" there. I added in columns for when the card was typed in, which I am debating whether or not to continue to maintain. That's mostly to help me sort them to when I left off because I sometimes have them sorted otherwise. The column I knew would eventually be created is the date I added the card to my collection. It's always been the plan since I created the Overall charts and I finally decided to add it in now. Eventually I will fill in the info on ALL of my charts- well, all that I can, I don't have that information for every card- and that is something I'm looking forward to. For 2013 and older, the date I got the card is stored only in one place- in my hand written paper listings. Beginning in 2014 I've tracked it on Excel. Even so, I only started keeping track of the dates in 1999 and I have not always maintained it very well, with many NASCAR dates before 2007 not recorded, no Non-Sport before 2010, and vast swaths of the NBA, especially from 2000-02 and 2004-06 not recorded. Since I began collecting in 1988, that's a lot of info I don't have...although I do have a few random dates before that, mainly special events like Birthday and Christmas where I just KNOW the date because it was such an important event in my life. The earliest dates I know for sure are Christmas 1992. When it's all said and done- and that won't be this decade, most likely- I will be able to sort my collection by date added to my collection, and for some reason, I'm really looking forward to that...but like I said, it's a long way off. Based on some calculations I did today, I still have some 46,000 cards awaiting scans, and they are arriving faster than I'm getting them scanned. I'm now under 20,000 NBA cards awaiting scans, but my hockey collection vs. percentage scanned dipped from 50 to roughly 40% or less, since I didn't scan for months. That's just a guess on percentages, no hard numbers, and I have I would guess 90% of baseball and football still awaiting scans. I've got no idea what percentage I'm at for NASCAR and Non-Sports. Instead of worrying about trying to figure that stuff out, (or playing Angry Birds, which I've been doing most of the day instead of anything actually productive) I should be working on scanning.

Willie O'Ree was the first sports card I typed the date I got it in, but I did the Non-Sports chart first. I didn't remember what year a promo card I had gotten was, so I had to pull up my Card Collection Acquisition Chart. Since I had the info in front of me, I figured I might as well include it. Some day it'll all be there....although I have no idea when. 

What does it take to get onto Page 1 for each NHL Team?

 Back in June of 2019, I wrote a post documenting the oldest card I had scanned for each team. While that is cool and all, what I really  enjoy is seeing what it takes to get on page 1. 

On the Cardboard History Gallery, I have each album set up to display 120 images, the most that Fotki allows. As I mentioned in the original post, I really enjoy seeing what makes it onto page 1, what it takes to be old enough to make it. Since I'm still fairly new to the NHL...only 4 years actively collecting this month!...it's still very much in flux, unlike the NBA which is almost all 1991-92 or older. 

To make this post, I will list the last card on page 1 at the conclusion of 2020, meaning anything older than that will automatically make page 1. It is set up to automatically place each card in chronological order and then numerical order by set. Seasons with more than one set (which is most of them!) the sets are alphabetical. I'm going to show each card as well, just so this post is fun to look at...both for you now, and me when I return to it in the future. For teams with only one page, I will show the most recent card, again, for my enjoyment when I look at this post in the future.

Let's begin....we see right away that not every team even has a page 2. Remember, these numbers are NOT what's in my collection...JUST what I've gotten scanned so far.

All-Star team...with 92 cards scanned, any All-Star card will make the first page.

2020-21 Tim Horton's All-Star Standouts #AS-13

Anaheim Ducks have 167 cards scanned. Name changes are reflected accurately so the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim have their own listing.

2018-19 MVP Factory Set #117

Arizona Coyotes have 126 cards scanned. With being the second newest name combination (only the Vegas Golden Knights are newer) it's not surprising they are low, barely cracking the second page.

2019-20 Upper Deck #160

The Atlanta Flames have only 25 cards scanned...any card will make the first page. In fact, I would be surprised if the Atlanta version of the Flames ever gets to a page 2.

2011-12 Parkhurst Champions #97

The Atlanta Thrashers, despite being active from the 1990s to the 2010s, have very few cards in my collection, with only 62 scanned, barely half a page. Unlike most of the defunct teams, all my scanned Thrashers cards were issued while the team was active.

2010-11 Zenith #96

The Boston Bruins finally bring us to a long running team, one of the Original 6 in fact. With 410 cards scanned Boston is actually ranked 2nd in number of cards scanned and one of only two teams to clear the 400 marker. 

1994-95 Topps Premier #419

The Buffalo Sabres are one of 3 teams from my home state, and as such I support them, however, it's interesting to note that I could get to 4 teams in other states faster than I could get to Buffalo. They currently have 316 cards scanned.

1999-00 Wayne Gretzky Hockey #22

The Calgary Flames have 330 cards scanned, one of many teams that are in the mid-300s as you'll see. Their last card on page 1 is kind of a mismatch of several teams, but I classed it as a Flames card. It's a Flames photo, labeled as a Sabre, but I'm pretty sure the material is Coyotes. In something like this I went with the photo! 

2002-03 Upper Deck Classic Portraits Starring Cast

The California Golden Seals were another short term team, and with only 18 cards presently scanned, hitting a page 2 seems unlikely.

1975-76 Topps #48

The Carolina Hurricanes were the last team I saw play live (on TV), not counting the Golden Knights who didn't exist yet. I wish they were still in Hartford, but they moved to Carolina in 1997. Since they have a lesser amount of history in both places, they have only 210 Carolina cards scanned.

2017-18 Panini Stickers #43

The Chicago Blackhawks are the only team where I have two name versions combined- because I don't know when they switched from Black Hawks to Blackhawks. It's entirely possible I don't have any cards from the name change, considering they've been around almost 100 years. As it stands now, they have 358 cards scanned, but I would break that out if I could figure out where to do it. Interestingly, the last card on page 1 is one that I recovered and uploaded in the December upload.

1998-99 SP Top Prospects #10. I assure you Doug Gilmour's name IS on the card, it just doesn't show up in a scan, 

The Colorado Avalanche have only existed since 1995, formerly the Quebec Nordiques. They have 263 cards scanned, I seem to pull more of them from packs than I do Hurricanes.

2015-16 Upper Deck #304

The Colorado Rockies, formerly the Kansas City Scouts and currently the New Jersey Devils, are one of the smallest teams represented in my collection, with only 7 cards scanned. It's a team card, which is something I really like. 

1981-82 Topps #50

The Columbus Blue Jackets were only formed in 2000, and they have 211 cards scanned. I know they were one of the last teams if not THE last to hit 100 cards in my collection, although they have been catching up a bit lately.

2017-18 Upper Deck #52

The Dallas Stars have been around since 1993-94 and although they wear my favorite color I have a hard time warming up to the team. They have 263 cards scanned. We've had two inserts show up in this project already but this is the first parallel.

2014-15 Artifacts Red #59

The Detroit Red Wings had been the lowest ranked Original 6 team, but they moved past the Blackhawks in December, currently with 361 cards scanned. Their last card on page 1 is not a hockey card, but a multi-sport card.

1996 Sports Illustrated for Kids 2 #474

The Edmonton Oilers have had a huge amount of superstars on their team, and it shows with 325 cards scanned...I'd say at least a quarter of all Oilers cards are one of 4 people- Gretzky, Messier, McDavid and Draisaitl. 

2002-03 Topps #150

The Florida Panthers are not the first team I think of when I think of hockey, let's put it that way...yet they still have crossed my scanner tray 262 times. The last card on the first page is a terrible photo of who is probably my favorite player in franchise history, a card I got in the first NHL box I opened. 

2016-17 Fleer Showcase #44

The Hartford Whalers have only 95 cards scanned, so they are getting closer to a page 2. I expect they will hit it in 2020 but only time will tell.

2015-16 O-Pee-Chee Platinum Team Logos #T-32

The Kansas City Scouts are a rarer team, only in operation for two years before moving to Colorado and eventually New Jersey. Only 7 cards have been scanned for the team, and I would be surprised if a page 2 is ever hit with this team, as well. 

1976-77 Topps #92

with 377 cards scanned, the Los Angeles Kings are pretty high up in the rankings- 5th, to be exact, but only three cards ahead of 6th place Vancouver.

1996-97 Collector's Choice Meet the Star Trivia Challenge. This oversize card was only available as a prize in the Meet the Stars contest...I got it at a card show if my memory is correct. It's die cut although that doesn't show well as I scanned it with the lid open. 

The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim have only 76 cards scanned, so they are only on one page. Eventually they will get onto a second page.

2005-06 Upper Deck #246

The Minnesota North Stars have 106 cards scanned, and are closing in on a second page. I suspect they too will hit that mark in 2021. 

1992-93 Ultra #321

The Minnesota Wild debuted in 2000, but since they are still active and getting a lot of cards, they have already surpassed the North Stars. The Wild have 170 cards scanned.

2018-19 MVP #237. Interestingly enough this was the first rookie card out of the first and only box of MVP I've opened so far.

With 387 cards scanned, the Montreal Canadiens hold third place in the scan rankings. They had held 2nd place for a year but Boston passed them recently.

1994-95 Donruss #146. This set only has the player's name in foil on the front, and it's very hard to read in hand...much easier to read in scans.

The Nashville Predators went to the first Stanley Cup finals I ever saw, and are getting close to smashing the 200 card barrier, with 195 currently scanned. 

2017-18 Upper Deck #359. 17-18 Upper Deck becomes the first set to appear as more than one team's last card on page 1. I don't know if it's a coincidence or not that the 17-18 set was the flagship I chased the most. 

The New Jersey Devils begin a streak of three localish teams to me, all between 1 to 2 hours away from home. With 338 cards, the Devils have gotten a bit of a bump from several Devils themed "Welcome to the NHL" packages I received from fellow collectors.

2000-01 Upper Deck Vintage #211. Fitting that the best player in franchise history represents the team here. 

I know as a Rangers fan I'm supposed to hate the Islanders...but I don't. In fact, I consider them my second favorite Eastern team and third favorite overall. I do need to increase my collection for them, I'm only at 382 cards scanned, good enough for 4th place on the list. 

1995-96 Emotion #108. Got to love the fisherman design. However, I don't think "Slap" is an emotion. 

The New York Rangers are my favorite team, a position they took during the latter half of 2016-17 season, the first I watched. I lucked into finding a huge stash of Rangers cards, and it shows- 

with 1978-79 Topps #235 being at spot #120. The Rangers currently stand at 988 cards scanned, and will become the first NHL team to cross the 1000 barrier when I do my monthly upload of all the cards I scanned in January, on February 1st.. According to the stats on the Trading Card Database (which are inflated because they count cards that shouldn't be counted towards a team) no other team has even hit the 1000 cards in my collection barrier yet, although 4 of the other Original 6 teams have cleared 800 cards, and Toronto is at 770, so getting closer. 

The second Ottawa Senators have my favorite logo in the league, due in no small part to my obsession with ancient Rome. They have 244 cards scanned.

2016-17 Fleer Showcase #56. The first set I ever opened a box of makes it's second appearence.

The Philadelphia Flyers are the most orange team in history, but the greatest Flyer ever, Gritty, does not yet appear in my collection. 

1997-98 Leaf Banner Season #7. A die cut, serially numbered insert. It's actually cut to the shape of a banner. 

The Phoenix Coyotes used to be the first Winnipeg Jets, now they are the Arizona Coyotes. I really wish they had updated the uniform when they changed the name from Phoenix to Arizona, because I constantly have to double check to make sure I'm putting them in the right album. With 112 cards scanned, this version of the team is very close to a second page.

2020 National Hockey Card Day USA #NCHD-11. Nobody local took part in this program so a fellow collector helped me out.

The Pittsburgh Penguins won the first Stanley Cup I ever saw. They have 355 cards scanned.

1996-97 Metal Universe #128. This is a fairly tame card from this bizarre set's options. 

Coincidentally, the Quebec Nordiques also have exactly 76 cards scanned. They will get to a second page at some point. It may not be 2021 but it will happen.

2018-19 SP #96

The San Jose Sharks are my second favorite Western team, 4th overall, due in large part to Brent Burns (in my top 5 favorite players) and their great uniforms.

They have 292 cards scanned. 

2013-14 Score #424

I have only seen 4 Stanley Cups being raised, but 2 of them were teams that had never won before. The Blues did it when they won the 2018-19 Championship. I have scanned 338 cards of them.

1998-99 Bowman's Best #18. A set that scans absolutely terribly.

Back in 2015, a friend of mine sent me thousands of hockey cards- literally over 2000. He thought I would enjoy it. He was sure right! That now forms the backbone of my collection. Since he is a Tampa Bay Lightning fanatic, I got a lot of Lightning cards, which had been his duplicates. While a lot of them still await scans, the Lightning have 335 scanned.

2007-08 Artifacts #24

Of the Original 6 teams, the Maple Leafs rank last in both cards scanned and cards present in my collection, with 351 scanned.

2000-01 Topps #78

With 374 cards scanned, the Vancouver Canucks have quietly taken the 6th spot in number of cards scanned, but could pass Los Angeles easily, trailing only by three cards. I suspect they will go back and forth for a while, always fun for me to pay attention to when I do my monthly uploads.

2000-01 Aurora #143

I am an NHL fan because of the Vegas Golden Knights! There was a thread on the Trading Card Database talking about but not showing their logo, and I decided to put on NHL Network to see what it was. I got hooked! By the end of that showing of On the Fly, repeating the next morning, I was an NHL Fan for life. It has been a part of every single day of my life ever since, and always will be. (Not just NHL- all hockey!). I am a big Knights fan and probably always will be because of that, but in the short portion of the 16-17 season I watched before they existed, the Rangers became "my team". The Knights are my #2 team, and I want them to win every game- unless they are playing the Rangers. 

I hit 200 Knights cards scanned in December, and I would say of all the full time teams, they likely have the highest percentage of cards in my collection vs. scanned. with 209. The Database says I have 255, but again, those numbers are inflated because they include checklists, multi-player cards, League leaders, etc. 

2018-19 O-Pee-Chee Platinum The Future is Now #FN-4

The Washington Capitals have 308 cards scanned, and were the first team I ever saw win their first Stanley Cup. 

2007-08 MVP #81

The first Winnipeg Jets became the Coyotes, and they changed their team name twice, so all three versions have lower numbers. The Winnipeg Jets 1 have 83 cards scanned. I expect they will hit a page 2, but not likely this year.

2012-13 In the Game Between the Pipes #99. This set should have stuck with the minor league players, but there are some airbrushed or closely cropped NHL cards in the set as well. It was not licensed by the NHL, so they couldn't show the uniforms. Even so, I'm a big fan of the set. This is the only post-existence Jets 1 card in my collection. 

The Winnipeg Jets 2 started out as the Atlanta Thrashers before moving north in 2011. Despite a relatively short existence, they have already made it to a page 2, with 156 cards scanned. 

2018-19 Upper Deck #448. Little was with the team it's entire time in Winnipeg but was hit in the head by a puck, which ruptured his ear drum, essentially ending his career. I happened to be watching that game and it made you cringe just watching. 

In addition to the teams shown, there is also one card for the Quebec Bulldogs, an NHL team that lasted only 1 season- 1919-20. They cannot possibly get a second page, and I had only one card of them when I began this post...2 by time I was done writing it. Stay tuned for "The NHL's Forgotten Franchises", an in-depth history piece I am working on that I hope to publish in a week or two, that will have more information on that team and several others that were not in my collection...but now are. 

Tracking my NHL collection after the 2019-20 season

 This has been a crazy year. I think we all know that. Who could have predicted that my NHL end-of-season wrapup would be written on October 5th, instead of June somethingth? Yet, here we are. 

This is something else unusual, in that we have no real idea when the NHL will play again. Normally the new season starts this very week, and I would be anxiously awaiting it after several months without hockey. This year, the break came during the season, for 4 months, everybody played in a bubble and the season took 51 weeks to complete. And no one knows when hockey will be played again.  If any of our writing survives into the distant future, people who didn't live through 2020 will likely look at the records and think "that can't be right"...but it is. 

I normally write up the end of the season review the day after the season ends, but I have been so busy with my scale modeling that I didn't have time to do that...and I'm depressed about the Rangers cutting my all-time favorite player. Why do they always make the wrong choice? I digress. Now, finally, it's too cold to work on models, so I finally have time to write this post, and do the work required for it. Not that taking screencaps is really work. 

As usual, all information is provided by the Stats page on the Trading Card Database. One thing that's different now is that I am no longer tracking the 1990-91 through 1992-93 Upper Deck sets on the Database. They put the parallel into the base set checklist, and basically make it useless, so I now only track them on paper. So, the numbers will be slightly skewed going forward, but they were never truly accurate to begin with...what with them tagging team, League Leader and multi-player cards to each person that appears, not truly cards of that person or team at all. So this is just a basic concept until I finish scanning everything myself. 

Using my posts from previous years, I'll look and see how the top 10 in the three main categories have changed...

I begin with the players:

Finally, the King holds court, taking the top spot from the Great One, and also being the first player to clear 100 cards! And the only one- actually speaking Gretzky ends the 2019-20 season at either 96 or 98 cards in my collection, I forget. It's the first time since I began tracking the stats at season end that there is a change in the lead. I don't know if he can hold it forever, as players in the 1990s got a LOT more cards than players today, since there were many card companies instead of one. As it turns out, there is a lot of change in the Top 10 this year, largely due to that huge purchase I made of early 1990s cards at the one and only card show I went to in 2020. Mark Messier and Brett Hull in 3rd and 4th place are the only two spots in the top 10 that did not change from last year. Eric Lindros jumps up to 5th, after not even cracking the top 25 last year, all due to that card show that yielded at least 40 new cards of him. It's the largest jump in the three-year history of the project...and may hold the record going forward as well! Brian Leetch drops one spot to 6th, and Patrick Roy jumps from 10th to 7th. Joe Sakic drops from 7th to 8th, and Jaromir Jagr drops from 6th to 9th...I'll have to change that. Mario Lemieux holds down the 10th spot. Dropping out of the Top 10 is Teemu Selanne, who falls to 12th. Interesting to note that the two Fleurys, who are not related, are tied. Mats Zuccarello, my favorite skater, makes the screenshot for the first time. Totally missing is Vincent Lecavalier, who falls all the way to 41st, in a tie with Paul Coffey, P.K. Subban and Pierre Turgeon with 35 cards. Lecavalier held the #1 spot at the time I began collecting the sport, since he was (and still is) my friend's favorite player, the friend who sent me 2000+ cards back in 2015, including his duplicates, which put the Lightning and Lecavalier at the #1 spots. 

The teams stay somewhat more stable down the middle, but there is massive movement in the top 10! The Rangers jump from 871 to 1437, due in large part to back in November when I got most of the 70s and 80s Topps Rangers cards. The lead the Rangers have over second place moves from 210 to 591, meaning that the gap between teams, if it was cards, would rank 19th among all teams...wow. I don't forsee the lead changing hands ever, so watching the gap will be fun. Second place changes again. I've done this three years, after my three full seasons watching the sport, and it's been a different team each time. First the Devils, then the Canadiens, now the Bruins take the second spot! But wait, looking closer, they are TIED! But not really. Huh? Part of that purchase I made in November included two Bruins cards that were in such poor condition that I didn't list them as part of my collection. Even though they are in my possession. So the Bruins actually do hold 2nd by themselves. The Red Wings jump from 7th to 4th, a big jump. The Blackhawks jump from 10th to 5th, making the entire top 5 composed solely of Original 6 teams, for the first time ever. That's interesting, because I don't really have access to a lot of cards from the Original 6 era- however the November purchase included about 3/4ths of the Parkhurst Missing Link cards, which are all Original 6. That must be what did it. The Devils, which had been 2nd just two years ago, drop to 6th. The Kings, which started in 6th, moved to 5th, and now dropping to 7th. The Penguins drop from 6th to 8th, and the Flyers make a huge jump- from 14th to 9th. The Maple Leafs, the last Original 6 team, are in 10th, 22 cards away from putting all the Original 6 in the Top 6. The Canucks are the team that the Flyers knocked out of the Top 10. Looking deeper, I find it interesting that the Sharks and Jets have held 19th and 20th in all three years. (The Database combines both Jets franchises, I do not, another reason I don't consider these stats accurate). Some other teams have held steady over the years as well, although changing position, they have not changed more than one spot. The Sabres have either been 16th or 17th, the Capitols either 18th or 19th, the Hurricanes either 24th or 25th, and the Stars and Senators have swapped 21st and 22nd between them. The Panthers started 25th, moved to 24th and now are 23rd...I will be curious to see how they rank next year. 

The seasons are the last of the "big three" stats, although the Database provides 5 different stats. It's fun to me to see how the current season places in with the cards added only during that season. As it turns out the 2019-20 season is the largest total of cards added during that season, coming in at exactly 1375, good enough for 4th place all-time. That is due to the fact that I got a hobby box of both UD series, O-Pee-Chee and Topps Stickers, which all adds up quite a bit. The one I wanted to key in on was 1993-94, which is the year most of the card show 90s purchase contained. It was enough to move 1993-94 from 10th to 6th, exactly 700 new cards since last year. 1997-98 is the year that drops out of the Top 10, falling from 7th to 11th. I added less than 100 new cards to that season. 

The sets can really change a lot from year to year...even a blaster is enough to move a set into the Top 25, and a hobby box of the right set can just about put a set into the top 10- note that the 2019-20 Topps Stickers jump right to 12th on the strength of one box! 1990-91 Pro Set has held the top spot since I began tracking this info, and it's one of my favorite sets, so you won't see me complaining about that. 1990-91 Score American, thanks to the Factory Set I got as a gift this season, jumps from 25th all the way to 3rd, it can't get any higher since I have completed it! 2019-20 Upper Deck is the only set from this year to break into the Top 10, and it knocks out last year's set, which I didn't do a hobby box of either series so I'm surprised it's so high. Last year's MVP factory set, which is complete, also falls out of the Top 10. 

Looking at the brands, Upper Deck has such a huge lead that I doubt it can ever be caught...that's what happens when you produce a 500 or more card set every year for 30 years. The lead UD has over Topps is exactly 2600 cards...that would be 2nd itself if it were a thing! Really puts it in perspective to me. Topps moves up to 2nd due to getting the 1990-91 Factory set and the 70s and 80s Rangers (and others). O-Pee-Chee drops to 3rd, but I suspect it will retake 2nd because O-P-C is still issued while Topps has not been since 2003-04. MVP drops to 4th, while Score moves to 5th, from 7th. Pro Set holds 6th, which is pretty amazing because they only issued three sets! And one of them has only 11 cards in my collection! Ultra drops to 7th, while Panini Stickers hold steady at 8th. The Database counts Score American differently from Score and that alone ranks 9th now, again on the strength of a factory set. It knocks Artifacts out of the top 10. The fact that Artifacts ranked in the top 10 really tells you how much being available at retail in blasters really shapes my modern collection. Parkhurst holds on to 10th. 

My oldest and lowest SN card are the same as they were last year, no change there. Since my lowest SN is 1/1 I doubt that will change, but my oldest might someday. 

and in case you are wondering, I actually transcribed all this info over to an Excel chart to make it easier to reference from year to year, LOL.