Hoops Card DB

Heroes Materials

Cards 
38
Parallels 
not documented

38 rows, my own count, over the numbers 1-12, 14 and 16-40 - cards 13 and 15 are absent on BOTH of two differently-parameterised fetches (the bare URL and ?sort=0), equal to the page's own "Total Cards: 38". Enumerated at https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/142381/2016-17-Panini-Absolute-Heroes-Materials, whose own heading renders "2016-17 Panini Absolute - Heroes Materials". Its sid is the one tcdb's own Inserts.cfm row carries for this name (https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/138222/2016-17-Panini-Absolute), and the sid was confirmed against that page's own heading, which renders "2016-17 Panini Absolute - Heroes Materials". The sid block it sits in is bounded at both ends by foreign products or non-existent sids - see gaps for the full boundary and gap-probe record. SERIAL EVIDENCE: PER-CARD VARIABLE. The distinct token set over all 38 rows is {MEM SN149, MEM SN99, MEM SN49, MEM SN90}, with SN90 on card 16 (Steve Nash) and SN49 on 24, 25, 34, 35, confirmed character for character on two differently-parameterised fetches. THE TWO FETCHES DISAGREE AT ROW LEVEL on cards 3 and 6 (SN99 on the first, SN149 on the second) and that disagreement is recorded rather than resolved; the DISTINCT TOKEN SET is identical on both and is what the variability verdict rests on. cardboardconnection: "Heroes Materials Set Checklist" - "38 cards." with no print-run sentence. NOTE A FETCH ARTIFACT WORTH RECORDING: a first, summarising fetch of this same cardboardconnection page reported "Heroes Materials: 40 cards (varying print runs)" outside quotation marks; the narrow verbatim re-ask returns "38 cards." and no print-run text at all, so the 40 and the varying-print-run gloss were both the fetch's and not the page's (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2016-17-panini-absolute-basketball). sportscardchecklist: "2016-17 Panini Absolute Heroes Materials (38 Cards)" (https://www.sportscardchecklist.com/sport-basketball/year-2016-17/index-panini-absolute/trading-card-checklists-and-product-information). A set's own print run has no column in sets.csv per EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.2, so where a run is stated it is recorded here in words only and never in card_count.

This set has a recorded count of 38, but the card-by-card checklist is not yet in the catalogue. That's an open research question, not a statement that no checklist exists. If you know a source that documents it, tell us — a pointer to one is exactly what closes these.

Draft — sourced but not independently verified. How this catalogue is built