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Sorry to be stupid, but I've got to ask. 

How were these set numbers determined?  

Who has decided that there are 44,770 Baseball checklists, or 1,922 Wrestling?

Not at all...

That is the number of sets that have had their names entered into the database.  The % complete figure is the number of those that have checklists entered as well. 

Both of those numbers are continually growing as members add more info to the database.

-Tom

The numbers reflected are for only the sets entered into the DB and the checklists that have been added.

Like Tom said there are many other sets that still need to be added into the DB that have not had a place holder inputed yet. I am trying to add the set names for the missing hockey sets at the moment and then will research the checklist for the set.

Mark

There are a lot of non-sports sets still not listed here yet. I add them as I come across them, but I don't have a whole lot of knowledge of tobacco era cards and almost every new set I add to my collection pre-1970s is news of it's existence to me. The field of non-sports has been active since 1879 and we have very little added from the 1800s. Of course, information on them is hard to find anywhere.

Racing is almost totally accurate...I spent a great deal of time and effort making sure everything was listed and accurate. There may be a few that slipped through the cracks, and then there are the promo issues that pop up from time to time that have been missed, usually from the early 1990s. I do know of a couple sets not yet listed that there is no other known compendium of knowledge about on the internet- but even with my collection, which is the largest one known*, I don't have everything and can't properly fill in the missing numbers yet. In due time, I hope.

*- my 1/64 NASCAR diecast collection is over 5000 unique cars. Before health reasons forced me to quit collecting in 2013 I had all but an estimated 100 Racing Champions issues and all but about 500 total issues ever, from between 1980 and 2013. Many of the cars issued until 2005 came with trading cards. The listings here on the Database are the only place on the internet to find accurate information about the card sets issued with the cars.

I'm not as knoweldeable about open wheels and drag racing, although I do enjoy them the knowledge isn't there, and there may be listings for those missing.

I also don't want to make it sound like I am the only one working on this. Tom and Adam, better known as Lea DeFoote and Spazmatastic, have also put a great deal of effort into making sure the checklists are correct, and other people have as well too, I believe.

KC, if you click Things To Do,  One of the categories is missing checklist. If you click on that, and then click on whatever sport, you will see the sets that don't have a checklist. In many cases they are inserts and parallels of a base set that does have a checklist.