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I just read this and I wanted to pass it along to any of the checklist builders out there.  Not sure if it affects anything here, but wanted to pass along:

Beckett: Early Topps Variations & Errors

Somebody pointed out the Adam Jones/Mitch Moreland thing to me in a PM. I fixed the checklist on that one. I'll blame Topps for that one, not whoever added the VAR here. 

I hate when Topps pulls this sort of thing. Especially the thing with the Revolution of the Game 10 card  insert set. The numbering is really messed up with no number 1 or 4 and two 7s.

How many kids (or adult collectors) are going to remember all this junk when opening packs? Some poor kid will pul a number REV-11 card from the Revolution of the Game set and think "OK this insert set has at least 11 cards in it". Then sometime later they will find two number 7s and think "WTH?"

You would think they could work out these problems before they actually printed any of the damn cards.

This stuff frustrates me so much at times I feel like throwing in the towel on collecting, but I know I never will completely. Mostly because it takes me so long to get any set completed let alone chasing the insert sets I want to chase.

I share your pain, Capt.  I often feel the set collector is a dying breed killed off by the trading card companies themselves and the hit chasing.  That said, I did really enjoy 2018 Big League.  It was a fun set to collect and not ridiculously hard.  I'm super close to a master on that.

Sorry for the late reply to this, but I agree with your assesment of the Topps Big league. I was really impressed with it, felt like collecting in the old days. When you didn't need four websites to figure out what you didn't get from a box. Good stuff.