After TAG's "early adopter" soft launch in 2022, the hobby suggested we make our grading scale more intuitive-- so we listened.
In response to industry feedback, the first digit of the TAG Grade (on our 100-1000 point scale), needed to correspond to the Industry Standard Grade (on the 1-10 point scale). For example, a TAG Grade of 800-849 should be reflected as an Industry Standard Grade of 8, and a TAG 850-899 should be reflected as an 8.5.
​TAG did not change its grading standards or algorithms, we merely responded to the hobby's suggestion that our three digit TAG Grade should intuitively reflect the 1-10 industry standard grading scale. In order to do this, we corrected the conversion chart which, in turn, corrected each 3 digit score assigned to the cards we had graded up to that point.