I was entering some cards into my PC and noticed that, as with so many Panini checklists, this one has the incorrect card numbers. I thought I'd try to get it all sorted out and realized what a (charlie-foxtrot) Panini was with this set. All of the online sites that have checklists agree on the 50 cards that make up the set, although none seem to agree on the card numbering (COMC is the closest). The checklist currently in the DB seems to have been copied from Beckett and has labeled the cards FB1, FB2, etc. However, the actual cards use a two letter abbreviation for the player's name (NC for Nick Chubb, PM for Patrick Mahomes, etc.).
From the online checklists, the set includes 40 players in the 50 card set. Ten of the players have two different cards with the same card number (at least for those I've been able to verify). OK, photo variations...no big deal to handle. Each of the 10 that I've seen have one standard in-game action photo version and one in which the player is shown posed from the waist up holding a football in front of a plain gray backdrop.
From COMC, I've managed to verify the actual card numbers on 38 of the 50 cards and could make reasonable guesses on the others (although I don't want to guess). The problem arises when the players have similar initials (Michael Gallup and Mike Gesicki, for example). Then I noticed that, for some reason, Panini actually gave both Dalvin Cook AND DJ Chark the same card number ("DC"). Stupid. I was even more dumbfounded when I got to Juju Smith-Schuster. Despite the fact that there is no other player in the set with the initials JS, Panini gave his card the number "SM", even though there are not one, but TWO Sony Michel cards, at least one of which is also SM.
Just to clarify, in building a checklist with two cards with the same number, I assume they would be Variations with the correct player name and team and then a VAR designation in notes 1 & 2 (VAR: Dalvin Cook) or (VAR: DJ Chark).
Also, I was hoping that someone could help verify the missing card numbers since I don't want to assume. Here are the cards I have been unable to verify at this point:
Alvin Kamara, Baker Mayfield (2 versions), Christian Kirk, Courtland Sutton, Darrius Guice, James Washington, Mike Gesicki.
Also, I have 4 players for whom I have verified 1 of the 2 cards listed. For each I have verified the posed photo: DJ Moore (DM), Josh Rosen (JR), Lamar Jackson (LJ), Sony Michel (SM).
Any help? I don't want to submit the IR until I get all the info to do it correctly...Also, I think this set (along with the PotD Autographs and rookie PotD sets) should probably be moved to the insert/related section of the base Player of the Day set rather than being listed as separate sets.
Glenn