2017-18 Essentials · insert set

Dynamic Duos

Cards 

40

Parallels 

not documented

tcdb sid 176245, "Total Cards: 40", 40 rendered rows counted by this build at https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/176245/2017-18-Panini-Essentials-Dynamic-Duos. NO FLAG TOKEN OF ANY KIND ON ANY ROW - this set is not serial numbered and is not an autograph or memorabilia set. That absence is discriminative rather than bare: the same Checklist.cfm renderer prints "AU, SN49" on all 30 rows of Called to Excellence (sid 176259) and "AU, SN99" on 36 of 37 rows of Destined for Greatness (sid 176264) in this same product. COUNT DISAGREEMENT, RESOLVED TO 40 AND RECORDED. tcdb states "Total Cards: 40" and renders 40 contiguous rows DD-1..DD-40 on THREE renderings - https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/176245/2017-18-Panini-Essentials-Dynamic-Duos, https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/176245/essentials-dynamic-duos-second-probe (a deliberately wrong slug) and https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/176245/2017-18-Panini-Essentials-Dynamic-Duos?PageIndex=4 - with DD-40 (John Wall / Bradley Beal) present on all three. BOTH aggregators say 39: cardboardconnection "Dynamic Duos: 39 cards" at https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-essentials-basketball-nba-cards and checklistcenter "Dynamic Duos Set - 39 Cards" at https://www.checklistcenter.com/2017-18-panini-essentials/. 40 is written because the rendered rows are the count (EXTRACTION_SPEC 3.3). Two aggregators agreeing on one wrong figure is the shared-upstream signature, not corroboration. See gaps G-003. This is a two-player-per-card set and its count counts CARDS, not signers: 40 rows, 80 players.