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Currently, I am going through players who have a card associated with Mississippi State University (MSU) and editing their profiles. I do this by viewing "All Names" under a specific team profile, for example with Baseball [1]. Every now and then I notice a player which has been linked to the correct team, but under the wrong sport. For example, Dak Prescott, a football quarterback, is listed under the names for Baseball [1]. This means, some Dak Prescott card has been linked to the Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, instead of the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team [2]. 

Now, in most cases this is an easy fix. However, for a major athlete like Dak, he has over 500 cards linking him to "Mississippi State Bulldogs" [3]. So, finding the card which incorrectly links him to baseball instead of football is a pain. There is an option for "Filters" on a profile, where you can specify options such as a "Team" [4]. However, in this case, the team of "Mississippi State Bulldogs" is only provided as one option, meaning all sports which have this team are combined into one. Thus, no appropriate filtering can be done to determine which card is linking him to the baseball team instead of the football team.  

My question here is, is there any way to successfully filter out these odd ball team linking so they can be fixed? Or do I need to send a New Feature request to apply a "Sport" option to the "Filters" on a profile or some other option? While this is not a significant issue, it is a problem across multiple college teams for various sports. Also, perhaps whenever a checklist is added, the "Check Teams" option could recognize the sport under which a set is listed under to help with this issue. Although, for multi-sport sets this might cause some confusion. Any help would be appreciated.

[1] https://www.tcdb.com/Team.cfm/tid/2863/col/1/yea/0/Mississippi-State-Bulldogs?MODE=NAMES

[2] https://www.tcdb.com/Team.cfm/tid/260/Mississippi-State-Bulldogs

[3] https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/78132/Dak-Prescott?sTeam=Mississippi%20State%20Bulldogs

[4] https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/78132/Dak-Prescott?MODE=Filters

Welcome to my hell for the past 10 months trying to fix Multi-Sport college sets.

Unfortunately there isn't since the Team Filter as you said only lists different text options, not TID options. I asked Admin about changing that Filter to display:

Mississippi State Bulldogs (Baseball)
Mississippi State Bulldogs (Basketball)
Mississippi State Bulldogs (Football)

...but I don't believe that feature request is anywhere close to being accepted/worked on.

Additionally, sets that are entered under a specific sport will link to that sport (a football set will only link to TIDs in the "Football" category). This problem solely exists within the multi-sport category, and until checklist uploaders start checking the TIDs and PIDs of uploaded checklists, the problem will never end.

Thanks for the comment Ed, I guess I should have checked the New Feature Tracker to see if a proposal already exists. As a developer, and speaking from a high-level view since I do not know the inner workings of the site, I would assume it could be an easy fix. However, I know there are much more key features that need to be worked on instead. Hopefully, it can be implemented at some point. 

I wondered if this was the case when under a specific sport, but I was not sure. Thanks for clearing that up.

Not solely Multi-sport.  With Topps putting other sports in their A&G "baseball" sets I've come across this problem.

That's correct, college sets created under a specific sport will always use the TID of that sports team for the college and won't look for another sport to assign it to, but in the case of Multi-Sport, it's completely random. Back-to-back cards in the checklist that are from the same school and team get assigned two completely different TIDs ... and sometimes neither one is the correct one!  Then uploaders don't realize this issue and go and copy this checklist to 20 different parallels, so we have to change every card manually 21 times. FUN.

Another thing to note: there are times where a college set for one sport may have a crossover to another sport, for example a UCLA football set having a Lew Alcindor insert, and Alcindor will be assigned the UCLA football TID as expected, which will cause confusion.

Edit: Chuck beat me to it on that last point

True - my previous comment is inaccurate.

However, I don't know how many college athletes they usually include in releases like that. I do know that if "Dallas Cowboys" is a team in a baseball set, it won't link to the Cowboys TID. I suppose if Topps inserts a Trevor Lawrence "Clemson Tigers" card into the next A&G set, it would link to the Clemson baseball team on here, however.

Yup, that's what the system will do, then there's a whole debate over whether or not the TID should be changed since it's a baseball set. In that example, it's more obvious that it should be changed from baseball to football, but then we get alumni/celebrity fan cards that aren't tied to a specific sport, and now you're wondering which TID should be used.

I was just pointing out that the A&G baseball sets only link to baseball IDs; both TIDs and PIDs.