How do you organize your Trade cards

[bobdabench]

I have my wants listed by Year, Set & Card Number. What I'm interested in is how you have your trade cards organized,

Do you have them listed By:
Year, Set & Number
By Team
By Player
Or a combination of the above listed methods
Maybe you have a completely different approach

What is your set up and why do you do it that way

Any input or advice will be appreciated

tx bob

[YankeeCollector]

I sort my trade cards by team pictured for the veterans and current team for the rookies and prospects. I do this because I know how collectors like players in their teams uniforms for their PCs, but there also might be a prospect that was included in a trade during the season that they now want to collect no matter what team he started with because those are his only cards available. I mainly list my cards by sets and sub-sets when I have a thread for that particular product, but with a lot of threads, comes a lot of clutter and keeping up with lists. The CTRL+F function is your best friend if you want people to search an expansive tradelist though. Here is an example. Mark Melancon and Jordan Schafer were acquired by the Astros, but appear in the uniforms in parenthesis. I also add the card numbers, so if I come across someone looking for a certain set or sub-sets, I can easily check their wantlists against my haves.

Houston Astros
2009 Topps 206 Mark Melancon RC-#104 (Yankees)
2009 Topps 206 Jordan Schafer RC-#117 (Braves)
2010 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospects Purple Refractors Mike Foltynewicz-#BDPP71
2010 Bowman Platinum Prospects J.D. Martinez-#PP23
2011 Bowman Platinum Emerald Hunter Pence-#64
2011 Topps Chrome Brett Wallace RC-#203
2011 Topps Gypsy Queen Brian Bogusevic RC-#119
2011 Topps Gypsy Queen Mini Wandy Rodriguez-#268
2011 Topps Pro Debut Blue Jiovanni Mier #ed 154/309-#156

[maxscudder]

i have mine seperated into years then into brand then into base insert and rookie. but im young and still have a small collection so its easy for me!

[schwood]

My GU/Autos are sorted by sport only.

My base and such is all starting to get organized by team. Pictured on the card. Or whatever them they were drafted by if rookie cards in no uni. But, it is all a work in progress as I have so much stuff, I am trying to get it all in order. And that in itself takes quite a while.

[Dacubs?]

My base and inserts are unsorted...too many to do at this point

My GU and Autos are in a spreadsheet sorted by player name first...easily sortable if need be. have started toying with going through and putting the team pictured in a column as well for the team collectors out there

[ETsportscards]

For me, the best way to describe how I organize my collection would be poorly.

[sanjosefuji]

I organize them by:

1st - Sorting them into sport.
2nd - Sorting them into type of card (autograph, memorabilia card, insert/parallels, and rookies)
3rd - And if I have the time, I sort them alphabetically by player.