Tracking the Cubs Collection Over the Years

One unintended benefit of the Five Random Cubs Cards posts is that is has given me a record of the size of my collection since 2009.  Each post will typically include the nubmer of Cubs cards and brands at the time of the post.  Over the weekend I went through the posts and made a spreadsheet that showed the number of cards and brands in my Cubs collection.  Instead of using all 147 posts, I took the information from posts near the end of March, June, September, and December.

Here's what I came up with:

Date	Cards	Brands
5/29/09	5274	13
9/19/09	5557	18
12/27/09	6047	22
3/28/10	6781	30
6/13/10	7312	31
10/9/10	8103	42
1/9/11	8448	48
4/10/11	8733	51
7/10/11	9070	54
10/9/11	9318	59
1/15/12	9818	64
3/31/12	10336	66
7/8/12	10589	70
9/23/12	10726	71
12/30/12	11106	76
3/24/13	11263	77
6/23/13	11567	81
9/29/13	11835	84
12/29/13	11950	86
3/23/14	12189	87
6/29/14	12442	89
9/28/14	12726	96
10/19/14	12792	97

And because I'm a visual guy, here's the same information in a couple of line graphs:

Back in 2009 my collection was mainly the big four: Topps, Donruss, Fleer, and Upper Deck.  There several smaller sets too, but the bulk of the 5,274 cards came from the four biggies.  

Since then, the growth of the collection and number of brands had been pretty steady.  There aren't any crazy spikes along the lines.  The number of cards grew at a steeper pace though 2011 and has leveled a bit since then.

Looking ahead, I'm anticipating the same slow and steady growth.  It's not like I've got all the Cubs cards so there are always more to be added.