About

Welcome to Grading on the Curve, a deep dive into the varied and valid ways we collect sports card and collectibles, brought to you by the FanSided Network. Grading on the Curve is dedicated to providing top-notch hobby and collectibles news and original content, with the needs, opinions and obsession of the dedicated collector in mind. This site also serves as a community for like-minded fans to come together to catch up on the latest happenings and discuss their passion for all things collecting. Grading on the Curve consists of an editorial team that passionately follows the hobby's quirks and shifts, creating the type of content they would read in order to help build and hone their collections. The site covers opinions, news, rumors, updates, price shifts, value, and player performance using reputable sources. FanSided's full-time editorial team reviews all article submissions from Grading on the Curve writers. Any article updates or corrections after publication are communicated via an editor's note. Grading on the Curve is building a social community for fans in addition to posting daily articles year-round. FanSided is owned and operated by Minute Media, whose other brands also include Sports Illustrated, The Players' Tribune, 90min, and Mental Floss.

Meet The Team

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib is a Content Director on the FanSided network, and has been the co-editor at Yanks Go Yard and Dodgers Way for 4 years. He also co-hosts The Baseball Insiders Podcast twice weekly, alongside FanSided MLB insider Robert Murray, as well as the Yanks Go Yard Podcast. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at 12up.com, and has been covering MLB and NFL for eight years. Previously, he was a headline and features contributor at ClickHole and Onion Sports, as well as the Associate Producer of the ESPN 30 for 30 film "Believeland". An avowed fan of the New York sports teams -- specifically the Yankees -- as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels, you can find Adam complaining mid-game on Twitter, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn if the game goes really poorly.

Eric Cole

Eric Cole

I started my career writing about baseball covering the Atlanta Braves for SB Nation's Talking Chop back in 2015 which has since been renamed Battery Power. After years of writing for those fine folks, I made the decision to take over as Site Expert at House That Hank Built before becoming a full-time MLB Staff Writer for FanSided in 2023. Along the way, I have been a guest on multiple ESPN radio affiliates as well as 680 The Fan and 92.9 The Game to discuss Braves baseball and especially Braves prospects and was a long-time host on the Battery Power podcast. These days, I continue to write about the Braves as well as covering the Astros, Padres, and Angels with particular expertise with minor league coverage, the MLB Draft, and bashing Anthony Rendon when possible. When I am not writing about or talking about baseball (which is seldom), I am an avid baseball card collector (Maddux and Soroka being my primary personal collections) and I also collect shark teeth. All other sports are mostly dead to me as my Bills have broken my heart too many times.

Matt Conner

Matt Conner

Matt Conner is an editor with FanSided who has covered the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Addict since 2017. Formerly an Assignment Editor with SB Nation, Matt was a longtime music journalist in a past life who has interviewed over 2,000 artists from Aerosmith to ZZ Top. These days, he hosts The Resistance, a podcast featuring in-depth conversations about the intersection of art and fear (listentotheresistance.com). He also has more Creed Humphrey autographs than anyone.