[nolan5000]

It really depends on why you are thinking of sending them in to be graded. If you are no planning on selling them, and just want the protection a slab offers then you may want to send them all in regardless of condition. If you have some of the greats and the card is in really nice condition and grades high it will no doubt have a much higher bv graded than raw.

There are some instances where a raw card has a higher bv than a graded one but not usually if the grade is high.

You brought up a really great point. If he's grading for the protection attribute, then he needs to grade with BVG.