2016-17 Absolute Memorabilia · parallel
Prime
- Print run
- not documented
- Serial numbered
- not documented
- Family
- other
Where it was sold
not documented
Applies to
the Team Quads set
Notes
tcdb sid 142386, heading "2016-17 Panini Absolute - Team Quads Prime", enumerated at https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/142386/2016-17-Panini-Absolute-Team-Quads-Prime. Sid taken from tcdb's own Inserts.cfm "Insert Sets (50)" section (https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/138222/2016-17-Panini-Absolute) and confirmed against this page's own heading. NOT WRITEABLE, AND THE REASON IS COVERAGE RATHER THAN VARIABILITY. The page renders 5 rows numbered 1-5 and the flag column is populated on ONE of them: card 1 reads "MEM, SN5" and cards 2, 3, 4 and 5 render an EMPTY flag column. That is reproduced on a second DIFFERENT ENDPOINT - Gallery.cfm?PageIndex=1&sort=0 gives the identical pattern (https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/142386/2016-17-Panini-Absolute-Team-Quads-Prime) - so it is tcdb's own data rather than a fetch-layer flag-column loss. Per reference/caveats.csv CAV-042 an empty flag column is never on its own evidence of absence, so unnumbered is not writeable; and a token on 1 of 5 rows is a one-row sample, so 5 is not writeable either - that is precisely the inference CAV-050 forbids. UNKNOWN on both columns with the census in a gap is the only honest row. The comparison that rules out reading the four blanks as real: Team Tandems Prime renders a token on all 19 of its rows and Team Trios Prime on all 9, through the same renderer in the same product. cardboardconnection's verbatim 20-entry set list names NO Prime, Patch, Tags or Jumbo tier anywhere for this product, so the print run on this row rests on tcdb alone and source_confidence is single (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2016-17-panini-absolute-basketball); sportscardchecklist lists several of these tiers as entries with card counts but states no print run anywhere on its index, so it corroborates the tier's EXISTENCE and roster size and not its run (https://www.sportscardchecklist.com/sport-basketball/year-2016-17/index-panini-absolute/trading-card-checklists-and-product-information). CHANNEL NOT ASSIGNED. The only channel-adjacent statements found anywhere for this release are product-level and neither names this tier: cardboardconnection's configuration line "Product Configuration: 5cards per pack, 4 packs per box, 10 boxes per case" is a pack configuration, not a trade channel, and its "Some autograph cards only found through the Panini Rewards program." names no card and no set and matches no value in the channel enum. No EXCH token was rendered on any of the 52 sids swept for this release, so the Panini Rewards cards could not be identified either. So channel is UNKNOWN, channel_basis is EMPTY and channel_confidence is EMPTY per EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.3. See gaps.
Draft — sourced but not independently verified. How this catalogue is built