2021-22 Donruss Elite

• G-001 Title Waves card count conflict: cardboardconnection.com states 20 cards; checklistcenter.com states 10 cards. Resolved to 20 using tcdb.com's ViewSet.cfm/sid/299695 page as a tiebreaker ('Total Cards: 20'), agreeing with cardboardconnection against checklistcenter's outlier figure. sets.csv uses 20.
• G-002 cardlines.com's page at the URL slug '2021-22-donruss-elite-basketball-review' states a 150-card base set (100 veterans + 50 rookies) with a parallel list (Blue/99, Aspirations/99 or less, Status/94 or less, Purple/49, Gold/10, Black 1/1) that matches the 2020-21 sibling product almost exactly, not the 2021-22 product's confirmed 250-card base and renamed Orange/Elite/FOTL-Bronze/FOTL-Platinum parallel ladder (agreed by cardboardconnection.com, checklistcenter.com, and tcdb.com, 3 independent sources). Treated as stale/mismatched page content for this URL and NOT used for base_set_size, sets.csv, or parallels.csv.
• G-003 Asia-box-exclusive parallels (Red, Hyper Red, Hyper Gold, Lucky Envelopes) have no print run/serial numbering stated anywhere found -- tcdb.com's own checklist pages for each explicitly state no serial-numbering information, and cardboardconnection.com/checklistcenter.com do not document the Asia box configuration at all (single-sourced to tcdb only). parallels.csv records these as 'unnumbered' by default absence-of-evidence reasoning (no source ever states a number for them), not as a confirmed fact -- could not corroborate on a second source or a marketplace listing during this pass.
• G-004 beckett.com/news/2021-22-donruss-elite-basketball-cards/ returned HTTP 403 on every attempt, so Beckett could not be used as an independent cross-check for base set size, parallel list, channel, or release date. [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 61 of 74 parallels lack a sourced channel.]
• G-005 Aspirations and Status are both described by cardboardconnection.com and checklistcenter.com as a ceiling ('#/99 or less' for both this year) rather than a flat print run; no marketplace listing showing an individual card's actual (lower) serial number was found to confirm the per-card spread below the stated 99 ceiling for 2021-22 specifically. parallels.csv records 99 as the stated ceiling for both, not a uniform per-card print run.
• G-006 Elite Signatures, Passing the Torch Signatures, Pen Pals, and Turn of the Century Signatures each carry variable per-player serial numbers (cardboardconnection states e.g. '#/99 or #/149 depending on player' for Elite Signatures/Turn of the Century, '#/49 or #/149' for Passing the Torch, '#/149' for Pen Pals) rather than a single flat number, and the exact numeric ladder mapped to each named colour tier (Black/Blue/Gold/Purple/Red) was not found on any source or corroborated on a marketplace listing. Out of scope for parallels.csv (base-set parallels only) but noted here since sets.csv's notes format only records colour names, not numbers, per spec.
• G-007 No manufacturer-stated pull odds (e.g. '1:X packs' or 'N per case') were found for any specific insert, autograph, or parallel set -- no Panini Product Information Sheet PDF or QC Gallery blog post was located for 2021-22 Donruss Elite Basketball on blog.paniniamerica.net (unlike the 2019-20 sibling, which had a PIS PDF). Only box-average guarantees (2 autographs, 8 parallels, 8 inserts per hobby box) were found, which the scarcity-pass spec explicitly excludes as not being pull-rate odds. A single retailer (theoriginalboombox.com) advertises a generic 'Hit Odds 1:10' per hobby pack, but this is not tied to any specific set or parallel and was not used to tier anything. scarcity_sets.csv and scarcity_parallels.csv are therefore empty (header row only), and no set was tiered SSP/case-hit, so ssp_cards.csv is also empty (header row only).
• G-008 Base checklist (1-250) was assembled from cardboardconnection.com (cards 1-73 and 74-100), tcdb.com (cards 101-181, with a 1-73 spot-check that matched cardboardconnection exactly), and checklistcenter.com (cards 180-250, with 180-181 overlap matching tcdb exactly). All three sources' overlapping ranges agreed card-for-card at every seam checked. Temporal-impossibility check passed: the Rookies range (201-250) contains only players from the actual 2021 NBA draft class (Cade Cunningham, Evan Mobley, Jalen Green, Scottie Barnes, Franz Wagner, Josh Giddey, Jalen Suggs, etc.), no post-2021 draftees found. Copy check N/A: no set was tiered SSP/case-hit (see G-007), so no card-level chase checklist exists to compare against base cards 1-250.
• G-009 This release's notes describe base cards or a base subset as serial-numbered, but the figure is only in prose and could not be resolved into structured data. base_print_run is UNKNOWN rather than guessed. Resolving it needs either a base_card_tiers partition for this release or a re-read of the source that stated the run.
• G-010 This release's notes describe base cards or a base subset as serial-numbered, but the figure is only in prose and could not be resolved into structured data. base_print_run is UNKNOWN rather than guessed. Resolving it needs either a base_card_tiers partition for this release or a re-read of the source that stated the run.
• G-011 This release's notes describe base cards or a base subset as serial-numbered, but the figure is only in prose and could not be resolved into structured data. base_print_run is UNKNOWN rather than guessed. Resolving it needs either a base_card_tiers partition for this release or a re-read of the source that stated the run.
• G-012 This release's notes describe base cards or a base subset as serial-numbered, but the figure is only in prose and could not be resolved into structured data. base_print_run is UNKNOWN rather than guessed. Resolving it needs either a base_card_tiers partition for this release or a re-read of the source that stated the run.
• G-013 Impact Impressions: 59 of card_count 60 written. The 60th row on https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/299637/2021-22-Donruss-Elite-Impact-Impressions renders the literal string 'TBD' in the card-number column for CHARLES BARKLEY (Houston Rockets). Per spec a literal TBD token is unwritable, so the row is withheld and the player is named here so the roster survives. Charles Barkley is independently confirmed as a member of this 60-card set by cardboardconnection.com (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2021-22-donruss-elite-basketball-nba-cards/amp). tcdb's flag column for this row reads 'AU, EXCH' (an exchange/redemption card), which is consistent with a code never having been assigned. Every other set in this release reconciled exactly to its sets.csv card_count.
• G-015 Set-name divergence, recorded rather than acted on: sets.csv carries 'Past & Present' with an ampersand (matching cardboardconnection.com, which also writes 'Past & Present'), while tcdb renders the same set as 'Past and Present' with the word 'and' at https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/299646/Past-and-Present-2021-22-Panini-Donruss-Elite-Basketball and in its Inserts.cfm listing. insert_cards.csv rows were written with the sets.csv spelling byte for byte per spec; sets.csv was NOT modified. Noted because any future name-keyed lookup against tcdb for this set must search the 'and' form.
• G-016 No clean marketplace corroboration could be obtained for this release's autograph letter codes, so the codes rest on tcdb alone (plus cardboardconnection for ROSTER only, never for card_number). Every eBay /itm/ page reached carried the tcdb flag-string fingerprint the spec names as circular evidence: https://www.ebay.com/itm/366043403150 renders '2021-22 Donruss Elite Pen Pals Jalen Johnson #PP-JJO RED /49 (AU, RC)' and https://www.ebay.com/itm/156749763787 renders '2021-22 Donruss Elite - Impact Impressions Jack Sikma #II-JSI (AU)' -- the second also diverging from the free-text search snippet that led to it ('Auto HOF Sonics Sp'), the retitled-to-catalogue-form shape the spec warns about. Both were therefore REJECTED as corroboration rather than counted. A small independent retailer (thehobby.com.au) showed 'PP-CCU' for Cade Cunningham in a search snippet but its page 404'd on fetch, and per spec a search-engine snippet is not the listing. Mitigating: none of this release's autograph sets carries a plain-integer card_number, so the spec's mandatory pre-write marketplace check for numeric autograph numbering was not triggered; all six autograph sets are letter-coded, which is the opposite of the renumbering smell.

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