2023 Bowman's Best Baseball Forum

Is there someway we can keep checklists from being uploaded too early. I know there's supposed to be a "lock" until a couple days prior to release, but doesn't appear to work, or doesn't slide when a release slides. This checklist was uploaded 2 weeks before the product release date and we're still more than a week away from release. Let's just hope it's accurate and Topps doesn't change anything and/or published accurate checklists....

I think they are generally locked until the release date but the problem occurs when Topps pushes the release date back and then that isn’t updated on the site allowing “a” checklist to be added early 

jimetal7212 wrote:

Is there someway we can keep checklists from being uploaded too early. I know there's supposed to be a "lock" until a couple days prior to release, but doesn't appear to work, or doesn't slide when a release slides. This checklist was uploaded 2 weeks before the product release date and we're still more than a week away from release. Let's just hope it's accurate and Topps doesn't change anything and/or published accurate checklists....

Yep, kind of why I tossed that line in there about adjusting when a release date slides. I fear rework because someone was just too eager to post and there was no lockout.

The release date on our site is January 17. I don't see an IR asking Admin to change it to a later date (no IRs at all, actually). Does anyone know if an earlier release date had been announced? It's also possible the release date was added after the fact, which may have made it easier to upload early.

Thankfully, Bowman's Best, in my experience, is a pretty straight-forward base set. Usually no VARs or anything too loopy, or if there are, it's pretty minimal. This may not be too big of a deal in this case. A month-early checklist upload should not be the norm, however. I'm more concerned about the insert sets. Panini insert sets, we know the numbers are wrong. Topps posts checklists that are half correct, half not correct, and those seem to cause more issues than anything else.

Final thing, more of a personal rant than anything else - there are already "ratings" on the set. How someone is giving a set that doesn't come out for another week any sort of rating at all is beyond me. For what it's worth, rating a set does not give points or lead to any further rewards on the site, and is simply a feature for the membership to share their opinion. Rating a set before it is even release, especially a Chrome-like set, just makes no sense to me whatsoever.