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I have found in multiple Sets containing SPs that they are counting towards the Base Set. An example is 2023 Topps Heritage Card 108b Masataka Yoshida. Card 108 is Jarren Duran. If you enter that you have Card 108b it will apply towards your Base Count. You could essentially not have Base 108 Jarren Duran and have 108b Masataka and have a Complete Base Set showing in the Database Base Checklist Count. I believe this to be a wrong way to count the Base Set. 

I sent Admin a message concerning this because it cannot be fixed through an IR. It is my understanding only Admin can address this. I spoke with a couple of L8s about it and they advised to contact Admin. I am just putting this out here to see if you all can see what I am talking about and would you agree that the SPs should not be counting towards the Base Set. 

Understand, this is not a gripe by any means just trying to get some attention to this and see if I am correct in what I am seeing in the Checklists.

I meant to add that you will see it in the Topps Holiday Sets. An SP version of a player will count towards the Base Set Count. 

Yes, any version of card number "123" will count as a version of "123" toward the base set. Just like any VAR version. 

Why? I understand a VAR counting towards having a Base Set but not an SP, especially of a completely different player. If this is such, why would there be a different count for a Base Set. If SPs count as a Base Card then why would the Base Set not include every Card just as a Master. If I have every Card from 2023 Topps Heritage except Card #108 then I do not feel like I have a Complete Base Set because I am missing one of the Base Cards. 

SPs are VARs of the same card number, despite it being a different player. Imagine the coding nightmare and the slowdowns when adding THAT logic into the system.

There are also sets with SP’s that don’t have VAR’s so that would need factored in also.

I cannot speak to the coding and slowdowns. I considered that would probably be a nightmare, but as a professional truck driver that is outside of my expertise. I am totally fine with the situation as is because I know how to manage to complete the Base Set, but for the sake of discussion you would have to agree that most Set Collectors would not consider a Base Set complete with 123d Legend Mike Schmidt, if they did not have 123 Bryce Harper. 

And just for the recorsd, the site calls a set of 1 of each card (regardless of VAR type) a "Basic Set". So what you are calling a "Base Set" is and should be the base cards, and not the SP/VARs and is not the same as the site's nomenclature.