The weight is a valuable information that often times gets accredited too much importance. Unless there is a traceable record of comparables, a weight is not more than a number.
The best a grading company could do in my opinion is open an entire box and then slab every pack with a denotation like “heaviest” “2nd heaviest” … from box X
I think it would not be in the best interest of a grading company when their measured weights get used by the public to “determine” wheter something contains a holo…just to find out that it didn´t. This would cause a lot of trouble associated with the service I´d assume.
As Shadowless mentioned, the weight is almost an arbitrary number without a reference point. At the same time, labelling that each pack is from box X and is the Yth heaviest is just way too convoluted. With cases being pretty uniform in weight however, you should theoretically still be able to differentiate between the light and heavy packs.
@salmoncannon I agree, there would have to be a better labelling system that is easily identifiable - it would only work if the grading companies themselves opened the boxes though. Could be as easy as B-1-1 (Base Set -first box opened - heaviest pack) or it is just visible online in the data base.
There was actually a pretty long thread about this (can’t find it but it was probably in the cgc thread) and it was very mixed response. The biggest problem is that we’ve all been crazy heavy weights have no holos and vice versa so it would kind of just be a number on the slab lol
It would be a cool thing to see for sure. Though I could see a lot of cases getting cracked for a potential holo pull thus messing up the pop report in the process.
