I like howintensive's answer. That's unique. Never heard of that method. It shows a definite love of your team.
the vast majority of my cards are in piles on the floor. The sorted stuff go in binders when I hit 9 cards of a player. Then 18 and so forth. In baseball, the order of sheets is current Cardinals, Cardinals in HOF, other HOF, players who have been on cards as cardinals but not on 2015 team, then other players. Other sports are just players, no distinction for favorite team, just alphabetically. Wrestling cards are less strict since so many cards are "action" cards, not of one guy specifically. The just go in sheets unsorted.
I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.