How much of the Valuation Boards work is open for public examination?
• current Board members (viewable from the Usergroups screen in the Forums) • the current modifiers used to calculate values of less-than-near-mint condition, the current weighting scale applied to the sale year, and all other necessary formulas used to calculate the estimated values • the site Indexes, of course, showing the final results of those calculations Not open for review: • discussion between Board members, conducted in a private forum • individual item sale prices collected by the Board • individual item conditions assigned by the Board The reasoning behind what is/is not public is simple. The Valuation Board is not intended to be a secret cabal, assigning values at whim, but rather a group of people collecting as much data as possible, applying standard formulas to come up with average sale prices, and finally applying a dose of reason and common sense to that result. Their deliberations should not be open to public scrutiny, else the resultant “noise” would prohibit any re
• current Board members (viewable from the Usergroups screen in the Forums) • the current modifiers used to calculate values of less-than-near-mint condition, the current weighting scale applied to the sale year, and all other necessary formulas used to calculate the estimated values • the site Indexes, of course, showing the final results of those calculations Not open for review: • discussion between Board members, conducted in a private forum • individual item sale prices collected by the Board • individual item conditions assigned by the Board The reasoning behind what is/is not public is simple. The Valuation Board is not intended to be a secret cabal, assigning values at whim, but rather a group of people collecting as much data as possible, applying standard formulas to come up with average sale prices, and finally applying a dose of reason and common sense to that result. Their deliberations should not be open to public scrutiny, else the resultant “noise” would prohibit any re
