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Hey guys, not to make waves but last month I asked admin to add All Star as a team in the hockey section. They replied: "For all-star cards, the team should be set to whatever the player's current team was at the time." Now I know this makes sense, but when you are doing a checklist, that's far from easy to determine. Am I the only ne who believes that if it is listed as All-Star on the list than we should have the ability to list as an All Star on the site (besides just writing it in each time).

Sorry, I agree with Admin. All-Star is not the player's team, same with Pro Bowl. All-Star cards get an "AS" annotation in the Note.  Finding checklists on other sites that don't list teams is common and requires a little work. But to maintain a quality database requires a little work on all our parts.

concur.. plus its just as easy to anotate the All Star in the Notes or Note2 field, depending on the card (and if its listed as such on the card). Editing for multiple fields in a CL is a lot easier now.

 If I want to look up Edmonton Oilers for instance, I want it connected to all Oilers and not skipping the ones that would be listed under a team called "all stars".

I also concur, I asked admin about this in the past as well and he expalined it pretty much as C2C describes. I am not sure if I have added AS to the note feild so that may be my bad if that is the case. I go about it like this .... (if I remember correctly as directed by admin) ..... add team player played for in the year of the image, alot of  cards state the year, if not I use my good ol google and research the all-star jersey and players career to determine what year it is from and then put "19** ALL STAR" in the Note2 feild. All-Star is not a team and would make it nearly impossible to find my Ranford All-Star cards.

It would make it even harder in hockey as their All-Star games have been Campbell vs Wales, East vs West, and North America vs World (and that's just what I can remember off the top of my head!). So, someone like an Yzerman, may have played on 3 "different" All-Star teams, when in fact, they were only with one team their entire career. Imagine players that actually moved around - like Jagr. How many different AS teams was he on? :)