Just giving a heads up about a change Admin made to the profile "Team" filter on Sunday that will help us make the database even more accurate. Most may not notice it, but for those of us that have been resolving IRs for a few years and fixing links to wrong teams (especially college ones!), this should make things easier to find and fix!
When going to any profile page and clicking on "Filters", one of the options is "Team", and it always took the text of whatever was listed in the Team field and grouped entries on that. Two issues we kept running into:
1) In the past, people could type a new Team without changing the underlying Team ID ("TID"), so we saw cards that displayed "Atlanta Braves" and looked OK but were actually linked to the St. Louis Cardinals.
2) New college cards added under a Multi-Sport set are automatically given the lowest-numbered TID for that school, regardless of sport, so this database has always had an issue with Basketball players being given Football TIDs, Football players being given Baseball TIDs, etc., and unfortunately, users upload new checklists, just see the school name without verifying the TID and they duplicate this incorrect checklist 20 or more times for parallels, making the mess even worse. Before this change, all college teams were grouped and displayed together regardless of underlying TID, so if you saw "Alabama Crimson Tide", there could've been a mix of every sport in there and we wouldn't have known. Note this also affects Multi-Sport cards for things like "New York Giants", where it could be randomly assigned to the Baseball team or the Football team.
On Sunday, Admin changed the "Team" filter to now group entries by TID instead of the display text, which resulted in two things:
1) We can now easily see when a Team name was updated without fixing the underlying TID because we'll see teams the player never played for. For example, I already found Donovan McNabb cards that were assigned to Denver and Saquon Barkley cards that were assigned to Buffalo!
2) College cards will now be broken out by sport TID. Anything matching the profile's assigned sport will simply say "(College)" after the team (or "Collegiate" for baseball), and anything assigned to the wrong sport will now have "/sport" after it. For example, a Football player's college cards will now display "(College/Baseball)" or "(College/Basketball)" if they're assigned the wrong TID and need to be reassigned.
Two things to note:
1) This "Team" filter still won't list cards where a player is on a multi-player card involving multiple teams. It was like that before and still is. Continue to use "Card Number" or something else to find these types of cards.
2) No changes were made to how college TIDs are assigned when adding a checklist under Multi-Sport, so you still have to verify all the teams first before you copy it to a parallel! I've offered an idea to Admin on how to address that, but he just updated the "Team" filter for now.
If you have a favorite player, take a second and go into Filters > Team and see if anything doesn't look right. If you have permissions to change the Teams/TIDs, please assist if you can! If you don't feel comfortable doing it, submit an IR and let us know which cards need to be updated. Thanks!
* Ed * L8 * Cards in my personal Collection are unavailable *
