2021-22 Optic

• G-001 Release date disputed: cardboardconnection, gogts and checklistcenter give September 2, 2022; cardlines states the product was 'officially released on August 31st, 2022'. Used 2022-09-02 (majority).
• G-002 Base set size disputed: cardboardconnection, cardsmithsbreaks and gogts state 200 (150 base + 50 Rated Rookies); checklistcenter states 150, apparently counting only the veteran portion. Used 200 per task instruction that Rated Rookies are base cards.
• G-003 Channel/format assignment is undocumented for most unnumbered base parallels (Purple, Checkerboard, White Sparkle, Red Wave, Gold Wave, Green Shock, Blue Velocity, Blue Pulsar, Red Pulsar) and for Pink /25, Gold Pulsar /10, Lucky Envelopes /8 and Black 1/1. No source states which retail format (blaster, mega, hanger, Target, Fanatics) each belongs to; channel recorded as UNKNOWN. [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 166 of 199 - the channel pass resolved -162 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 166 of 199 - the channel pass resolved -162 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 166 of 199 - the channel pass resolved -162 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.]
• G-004 Purple Stars FOTL print run internally inconsistent on cardboardconnection: the parallel checklist says #/13 while the box-configuration blurb on the same page says #/19. Used 13, corroborated by checklistcenter and by marketplace listings showing '#10/13'.
• G-005 Choice Black Gold print run disputed: gogts states #'d/8; cardboardconnection lists Black Gold among unnumbered Choice parallels. Used 8 (only explicit figure found).
• G-006 Fast Break parallel family (Holo, Purple /95, Red /85, Blue /50, Pink /20, Gold /10, Black 1/1) is single-source (cardboardconnection) except Purple /95, which is corroborated by marketplace listings. Also, the spec's channel enum has no 'fast break' value, so channel is recorded as UNKNOWN with a note. [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 4 of 37 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 166 of 199 - the channel pass resolved -162 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 166 of 199 - the channel pass resolved -162 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 166 of 199 - the channel pass resolved -162 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.]
• G-007 Splash! insert card count disputed: cardboardconnection 15, checklistcenter 20. Recorded as UNKNOWN.
• G-008 Rookie Dominators Signatures card count disputed: cardboardconnection 30, checklistcenter 29. Recorded as UNKNOWN.
• G-009 Rated Rookie Signatures count (49) is single-source (cardboardconnection); checklistcenter's autograph list omits the set entirely, though gogts sell-sheet copy confirms 'ON-CARD Rated Rookie Signatures' exist.
• G-010 Insert name disputed: cardboardconnection checklist and breakninja have a 'Light It Up' set; gogts and cardlines call the same hobby-exclusive insert 'Lights Out' (cardboardconnection's own prose also uses 'Lights Out'). Used 'Light It Up' (the checklist-level name).
• G-011 Insert name variant: checklistcenter renders the 20-card All-Stars insert as 'All-Stars Gold'. Used 'All-Stars' (cardboardconnection, cardsmithsbreaks, gogts).
• G-012 checklistcenter's base-parallel list is word-for-word identical to cardboardconnection's, so 'multi' confidence on the unnumbered parallel family may reflect a single upstream origin rather than two independent verifications.
• G-013 beckett.com/news returned HTTP 403 on every attempt; could not be used to cross-check parallels, counts or the release date. checklistinsider.com has no page for this release (404).
• G-014 Rookie flags: cardsmithsbreaks explicitly marks cards 151-200 'RC' and no others; cardboardconnection shows no inline RC labels but separates 151-200 under a 'Base Rated Rookie Set Checklist' heading. Flags set yes for 151-200 and no for 1-150 on that basis (RC labelling itself is single-source).
• G-015 cardboardconnection lists 'Fanatics Box Set', 'Target Box Set' and 'Premium Box Set #/249' parallels on this product page, but these belong to separate SKUs (2021-22 Donruss Optic Complete Box Set and Premium Box Set, each with its own product page). They are excluded from parallels.csv for this hobby/retail release.
• G-016 Team assignments come from cardboardconnection and cardsmithsbreaks checklists and reflect the team printed on the card; no source was available to verify any 'No Team'/multi-team edge cases.
• G-017 Per-set parallel-tier repair pass (2026-08-27): tcdb.com's Inserts.cfm tags "75 Years of the NBA" as "(Panini Prizm)" with no suffixed colour variants under this Optic listing, so no parallel-tier note could be sourced for it; 19 of 20 non-base sets were annotated.
• G-018 Dominators Signatures card count contradicts sets.csv: sets.csv states 40; tcdb.com renders 37 rows on https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/329762/2021-22-Donruss-Optic-Dominators-Signatures and its Gallery.cfm states 'Total Cards 37'. 37 rows written to insert_cards.csv. The 3 remaining cards cannot be named - no page renders them - so no players are withheld by choice, they are simply absent from every source found.
• G-019 Opti-Graphs: sets.csv states 99; tcdb renders 95 (Gallery.cfm https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/330221/2021-22-Donruss-Optic-Opti-Graphs states 'of 95'). 94 rows written. WITHHELD BY NAME: Luka Doncic - tcdb stores the literal string 'TBD' in his card-number column on the base page AND on the Opti-Graphs Gold parallel page (sid 330224), so the parallel-page test failed and no code exists to write; no marketplace listing title carrying an OG- code for Doncic was found. ALSO WITHHELD: Anthony Davis, card OG-ADV, which appears on Opti-Graphs Gold (sid 330224, 96 cards) but on no base Opti-Graphs page - that is parallel scope, and writing it into the base set would be an inference. The remaining 4 of the 99 are unnamed and absent from every source found.
• G-020 Fast Break Signatures: 99 rows render on tcdb, matching sets.csv card_count 99, but only 98 carry a printed code. WITHHELD BY NAME: Charles Barkley - tcdb stores the literal string 'TBD' in his card-number column on the base page (sid 337422) and on BOTH parallel pages tested, Gold (sid 337424) and Black (sid 337423), so the parallel-page test failed in both directions; no marketplace listing title carrying an FB- code for Barkley was found. Note that Signature Series Gold prints SS-CBK for Barkley - that is a different set and does not license inventing FB-CBK.
• G-021 Signature Series: sets.csv states 99; tcdb's page header states 'Total Cards 94' but 95 rows actually render across the ten Gallery.cfm pages (page 10 holds 5 tiles), so the header is stale in the low direction. 95 rows written. WITHHELD: the Signature Series Gold parallel (sid 337430) carries 97 cards - the same 95 plus SS-CBK Charles Barkley and SS-JBK James Bouknight. Those two are parallel scope (a colour tier with a LARGER checklist than its base set) and are not written into the base set. The remaining 4 of the 99 are unnamed and absent from every source found.
• G-022 Splash! card count (sets.csv UNKNOWN, disputed 15 vs 20 in G-007): tcdb.com https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/329765/2021-22-Donruss-Optic-Splash states 'Total Cards 15' and renders exactly 15 rows. This is a third, independent catalogue supporting cardboardconnection's 15 over checklistcenter's 20. sets.csv not modified (out of scope for this pass); 15 rows written.
• G-023 Rookie Dominators Signatures card count (sets.csv UNKNOWN, disputed 30 vs 29 in G-008): tcdb.com https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/337305/2021-22-Donruss-Optic-Rookie-Dominators-Signatures states 'Total Cards 29' and renders exactly 29 rows, supporting checklistcenter's 29. sets.csv not modified; 29 rows written. Also recorded: the prefix on this release is RD-, NOT the RDS- used on 2020-21 Optic - re-derived from the page, not carried forward from the sibling season.
• G-024 Uncatalogued tcdb subset, deliberately NOT written: '2021-22 Donruss Optic - Rated Rookies Signatures Premium Box Set' (tcdb sid 328884, 25 cards, all AU /10) has no row in sets.csv. Per gaps G-015 the Premium Box Set is a separate SKU with its own product page, so its cards are excluded from this hobby/retail release rather than written as a new set.
• G-025 tcdb naming and cross-product hazard for 75 Years of the NBA: tcdb titles our set '2021-22 Donruss Optic - 75 Years of the NBA (Panini Prizm)' at sid 328746 (25 cards, numbered 1-25) - this is the set we filled. A DIFFERENT 25-card set, '2021-22 Panini Prizm - Donruss Optic 75 Years of the NBA' at sid 318000, is filed under the Panini Prizm parent and is numbered 26-50; it belongs to Prizm, not to this release, and its cards were deliberately not written here. This also explains the note in G-017 that tcdb tags our set '(Panini Prizm)'.
• G-026 tcdb sid regime for this release, recorded so a later pass need not re-derive it: the sets are SCATTERED ISLANDS interleaved with unrelated products, not one contiguous block. Islands: 328746 (75 Years); 328807-328897 (All-Stars, Elite Dominators, Light It Up, My House, Raining 3s, Rated Rookies Signatures family, Star Gazing); 329325-329336 (Express Lane); 329732-329776 (T-Minus, Air Defense, Dominators Signatures, Splash!); 330221-330226 (Opti-Graphs); 330508-330530 (Winner Stays, The Rookies); 337305-337310 (Rookie Dominators / Retro Series Signatures); 337422-337424 (Fast Break Signatures); 337428-337436 (Signature Series). Probed numeric gaps inside those ranges returned unrelated products - 328818 and 328844 are Wild Card Alumination parallels, 329748 is 2022 BBM Japonism, 328898 is 2002-03 Be a Player, 337311 is 2022 Topps Chrome, 337437 is a 1951 Japan Tour set - so the islands are genuinely bounded. Inserts.cfm (https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/318896/2021-22-Donruss-Optic) TRUNCATED after 'Winner Stays' and omitted its 11 colour parallels; sid probing confirmed 330509 is 'Winner Stays Black'. Checklist.cfm?PageIndex=2 redirects to the tcdb homepage on these sids; Gallery.cfm?PageIndex=N is the working pagination.

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