Premium

Where it was sold

factory-set

How we know: taken from a release note.

Applies to

the full 300-card base set of 2017-18 Panini Hoops

Notes

tcdb renders the tier as "Premium" at sid 160898. ROW-LEVEL TOKENS: "SN199" on every rendered row across three endpoints of this sid: ViewSet.cfm rendered 72 rows (cards 1-79), Checklist.cfm?PageIndex=3 rendered 86 rows (cards 201-286) and Gallery.cfm?PageIndex=30 rendered all ten tiles 291-300, every one flagged "SN199". tcdb Inserts.cfm Notes cell: "Factory set; SN199; holofoil cardstock". ⚠ THIS ROW RECORDS A MEASUREMENT, NOT A CLASSIFICATION DECISION, AND THE CLASSIFICATION IS DELIBERATELY LEFT OPEN - SEE GAP G-001. tcdb files this object in the PARALLEL SETS section of the parent's Inserts.cfm, and cardboardconnection lists it among the base-set parallels as "Premium Box Set #/199" with no product page of its own. Two of three lineages call it a parallel, so it is written where those two put it. It is NOT a decision that 2017-18 belongs to, or does not belong to, the brands.csv line hoopspremium; no directory was created for it. MEASURED: its checklist is identical to this release's base run. Gallery.cfm paginates it to exactly 30 pages of 10 with NO page 31, so it renders 300 tiles over 300 distinct numbers - and it therefore does NOT carry the 301st "Champions" row the parent renders. Cards 291-300 are the same ten Kobe Bryant Career Tribute cards, all flagged SN199. ITS TREATMENT REACHES BEYOND A BASE-SET REPRODUCTION: a separate autograph tier exists, "Kobe Bryant Career Tribute Autographs Premium Box" (sid 160903), ten cards numbered 291-300 flagged "AU, SN20", which cardboardconnection carries as "AUTOGRAPH PARALLELS (Kobe Bryant Career Tribute Set): Autographs Premium Box #/20." That set is in sets.csv. THE Inserts.cfm NOTES COLUMN PASSES THE BOTH-DIRECTIONS SPLIT TEST ON THIS PAGE'S PARALLEL SETS SECTION, AND THE FORMAT IS PROSE, NOT BARE TOKENS (reference/caveats.csv CAV-036). The cells read "Serial numbered to 99", "Serial numbered to 49", "Seral numbered to 199" (tcdb's own typo, reproduced here verbatim), "Factory set; SN199; holofoil cardstock" - never a bare SN token. Twelve of the sixteen Parallel Sets rows carry such a cell and four are blank. POSITIVE DIRECTION, three endpoints: the annotated Green renders "SN99" on all 80 of its rendered rows, the annotated Teal renders "SN125" on all 82, and the annotated Premium renders "SN199" on every rendered row. NEGATIVE DIRECTION, two endpoints: the blank Blue renders no flag token on any of its 80 rendered rows and the blank Platinum renders none on any of its 88. INDEPENDENT CONFIRMATION: cardboardconnection lists all sixteen base parallels and gives a print run for exactly the twelve tcdb annotates and none for the four tcdb leaves blank - 16 of 16 agreement between two lineages, on names and on figures. So a blank annotation is a positive discriminative signal for unnumbered on THIS SECTION of THIS page. IT IS NOT ON THE INSERT SETS SECTION OF THE SAME PAGE, which is worthless in both directions: Championship Moments and Rookie Remembrance Prime both have BLANK Notes cells and both render serial tokens on every row. COVERAGE LIMIT, STATED RATHER THAN HIDDEN: this is a 300-row tier and ViewSet.cfm rendered only the rows quoted above before the fetch layer truncated, so the distinct-token enumeration is PARTIAL, not exhaustive. The integer rests on that partial row-level enumeration PLUS two independent prose statements of the same figure. See gaps. Sources: https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/160898/2017-18-Hoops-Premium ; https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/153685/2017-18-Hoops ; https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-nba-hoops-basketball ; https://www.sportscardchecklist.com/sport-basketball/year-2017-18/index-panini-hoops/trading-card-checklists-and-product-information [RECLASSIFIED 2026-09-27: the Hoops Premium Box Set is modelled as its own RELEASE on the `hoopspremium` line, not as this parallel tier. Owner decision, taken because the catalogue was answering the question BOTH ways at once - this row existed while `hoopspremium-bkb-2018-19` also existed as a release with its own 300-card base_cards.csv, a contradiction no consumer could see. The discriminator that settled it: the Premium treatment carries a chase set of its own (a 10-card Kobe Bryant Career Tribute Autographs Premium Box at AU/SN20 in 2017-18), and a pure colour parallel does not have a chase set; 2018-19's release also rests on first-party Panini evidence with its own date and price. THIS ROW IS NOT DELETED - rows are never deleted here - so a resolver matching the name tcdb prints under its Parallel Sets heading still finds it. Read it as a pointer to the release, and count the cards once, on the release.]