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Here are my results from my 2020 Update Hobby Box. Post yours if you can

Set/Parallels
Base cards: 296
Doubles: 16
SP/SSP: 0
Gold SN2020: 1
Rainbow Foil: 2

Black SN69: 1  <-- forgot this one

Inserts
Relic/Auto: Major League Material Relics Black - MLM-NA - Nolan Arenado MEM, SN199
1985 Topps Baseball 35th Anniversary: 5 (1 double)
20 Years of The Captain: 1
A Numbers Game: 2
Decade's Best: 4
Prospects: 4

Silver Pack
Derek Jeter
Luis Robert
Tony Gonsolin
Seth Brown

Were you happy with that result, or not?  Obviously I don't know how much you paid, and I'm not asking.  If you're building the set, 296 with few doubles seems pretty good.

Pretty disappointing actually. I think blasters are the way to go for people who don't build sets traditionally. There are a lot more inserts in those. I did overpay for this, as most people did. I really just wanted to open some new product.

1 gold card in a hobby box?! What was the print run on this? It might rival 1988 Topps!

Gold should still be SN2020. Problem is Topps shrunk the box size down 36 -> 24 packs across all 3 flagship series. That changes the equation. He should have seen at least 1 SP too.

Sorry. Production run...not print run.

2020 x 300 cards in the set = 606,000 sn gold cards

At 1 per hobby box that would put production at 181M cards produced for the set. 

Fortunately (if not obviously) the insert rate doesn't extrapolate to blaster boxes where there is probably also 1 per box, but only ~100 in the box.

baseballcardpedia states these odds, so I guess what I pulled is normal for a 24 ct box

Rainbow Foil 1:10
Gold 1:16

296 base cards and only 16 doubles is pretty good, looking at it from a set maker stand point. The inserts and parallels are secondary to me. Thats a good base set start to begin trading for the cards you need to finish. 

On the subject of 2020 Traded cards, I went into the local Meijer Hypermarket, a couple days ago and they had no 2020 Topps Traded or displays. Today I went in and they had 2 empty trays for the hanger boxes (?). I think each hanger box display holds maybe 20 boxes. So that was 40 boxes gone in only a day or so. Probably all on ebay now.

As I was putting the cards from my box in order, I thought I might get the whole set out of this box. I'm a set builder, and with almost zero retail to be found, I thought it was great. I over paid for the box from the local hobby store because I wanted to open some new stuff and collect the set. The hobby jumbo at the store was $190 and I couldn't justify that and am glad I didn't go for it. Here is my breakdown;

Base cards, 295

doubles, 14

sp/ssp, 0 (bummer) 

gold, 1

rainbow foil, 0

advanced stats, 1

Inserts;

4 draft picks, 6 '85 anniversary, 2 A numbers game, 4 decades best, 1 20 years Captain.

I did get lucky with my hits. 
Relic, All Star Jumbo, Altuve 5/5

my silver pack also contained a Jesus Luzardo auto 92/99.

Thanks for posting. It looks like our pulls were very similar. I don't feel so bad now :)

No SPs either. That's not right.