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My current project is to get my collection to contain 100 unique players for each of the teams in the North American Big 4 leagues.

For this, it is also a prod to further complete my collection entry into the database. For hockey, since it is my primary focus, I am already likely there for all team except the Golden Knights and Kraken who likely don't have 100 unique players on cards yet. For baseball, I am likely close, in particular once I get my backlog entered.

Football and basketball being lesser focus collections for me, I doubt I've accomplished it for any team.

Status of teams completed:

Baseball - Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays (all before starting this post), Oakland Athletics (2023-01-08), Los Angeles Dodgers (2023-01-08)

Basketball - none

Football - none

Hockey - Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs (all before starting this post)

This morning I logged my 100th unique San Diego Padres player as I work on that team's outstanding cards. It was this lovely junk wax era specimen : 1988 Donruss Stan Jefferson

I found only one Golden Knight so far:

And my 100th Houston Astros player comes from the same set : 1988 Donruss Rocky Childress

Finally logged another 100 players milestone - Oakland Athletics player #100

2014 Topps Baseball (Gold Parallel) - Jim Johnson #487

Is there an easy way of checking this? Or is it just a matter of looking at each team and keeping track of which players you have?

If there's a way to do it on the site, I dont know it. I maintain a separate accounting to track it.

Los Angeles Dodgers player #100

2013 Topps Baseball Paco Rodriguez

Not a new team with 100 players milestone today, but a different type. Logged unique player/team combination #10,000 today.

Number 10,000 was this card Louis Domingue - Moncton Wildcats

Some stats about the 10,000:

- in total there are 7166 unique players in the list

- in total there are 552 unique teams represented in the list

- the player with the single highest count is Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins (I don't really PC any players, but he is one of a handful I will usually grab any card of I come across) with 58 cards

- the team with the most unique players is the Toronto Maple Leafs with 273 players

- per sport the combos breakdown is : hockey - 4167, baseball - 3209 , football - 1368, basketball - 987, soccer - 217 (remainder is smaller other sports).

My 2 main takeaways are I'm surprised how close the count of baseball vs. hockey is given that I have at least double the number of hockey cardsin my collection vs baseball. Likely this is due to the greater access to minor league baseball cards, and that I've not logged yet a lot of my hockey non NHL.

Secondly that I need to get caught up on my basketball entry, because I certainly have a larger basketball collection than football, even if neither is a prime collecting focus.

Now on to the next 10,000....

Cincinnati Reds player #100

Chicago White Sox player #100