Monday, November 3, 2008

Best card of 1988 Topps: Round Two

Here are the results from Round One:

#1: Bo Jackson #750 (67.1%)
#2: Wade Boggs #200 (63.3%)
#3: George Brett #700 (59.2%)
#4: Andre Dawson #500 (53.8%)
#5: Kent Tekulve #543 (52.7%)
#6: Don Mattingly #300 (51.1%)
#7: Nolan Ryan #250 (51.1%)
#8: Eddie Murray RB #4 (49.5%
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#9: A's Leaders #759 (48.7%)
#10: Greg Maddux #361 (48.4%)
#11: Eddie Murray #495 (47.3%)
#12: Cal Ripken Sr. #444 (46.2%)
#13: Tommy Lasorda #74 (43.9%)

#14: Darryl Strawberry #710 (43.4%)
#15: Robin Yount #165 (43.3%)
#16: Eric Davis #150 (43.0%)


The only upset in the first round was Darryl Strawberry wiping out George Brett. That surprised me a little given what a better career Brett had than Strawberry, but the Mets cards from this set do have great coloring, and I can't argue with the votes.

Don Mattingly won with the biggest margin of victory, beating out Murray's card 71.6% to 28.4%. Several of the matchups finished close to 50-50 with just a few votes determining the winner.

Incidentally, each poll got 80-90 votes, which is great.

Round Two will commence with the highest seeds facing the lowest seeds from the above list.

2 comments:

dayf said...

Nooooo not Maddux! Wait, Lasorda lost? Wow.

Andy said...

Maddux was beaten pretty easily. Lasora and Dawson ended in a tie, but when I reopened the poll, Dawson got almost all the new votes and won fairly easily.