We can 1 of basically 2 different ways. The way we have it currently in Football is different than we set things up in Baseball and Hockey.
Allow me to explain, and then I want you to give your opinion on which way is the clearest, most useful way of formatting them.
Epix was a cross-product inserted series of sets that came in 3 different colors. Let's just talk about the Orange (or Red), which was the easiest to obtain. There were 3 or 4 different sets within the Orange (Red) color: Season, Moment, Play (not in FB), & Game. In all 3 sports (and probably basketball, too), a fraction (1/4 or 1/3) of the set was available in 3 or 4 different products.
Now the sets can be thought of as Orange Game, Orange, Play, Orange Moment, and Orange Season, with 1/4 of the set (6 cards) being released in each product - or - the sets can be thought of as Orange with 6 Game, 6 Play, 6 Moment, and 6 Season, and depending on the product it was included in, who belongs to which set.
Advantages and disadvantages to both scenarios:
Let's call the Season/Play/Game/Moment breakout the "Baseball" way (how it currently looks in our baseball sets). So the Baseball way has the sets labeled as "Epix Orange Game" and "Epix Emerald Season", etc, to the tune of 12 sets per product, each set having only 6 cards (cards numbered 1-6, 7-12, 13-18, or 19-24). Disadvantage - 12 sets per product (3 products in baseball, 4 in hockey, and 3 in football). Advantage - User looks at card, knows exactly which Epix set it belongs to. (Although a small disadvantage is user may have to go looking in two or three other places to find where the card belongs. An advantage to this will be mentioned in the next scenario's disadvantages.)
The other breakout, when the sets are just Orange, Purple and Emerald, with no regard to Play/Game/etc. we'll call the "Football" way (as that's how the football sets are currently set up). In this way, all 24 cards are listed under the color, regardless of the Play/Game/Season/Moment printed on the front. This info is present in Note2 and can only be seen once going to that card's page. The biggest disadvantage I see for this way is that cards could easily be mixed up if a lot of caution is not used when entering scans or collection info. Reason being, there is a Purple Game card for each player released in each product. (However, now, 20 years later, most have been busted out, and are sold as "Pinnacle Epix" because Pinnacle is the only branding used on the cards.) The biggest advantage to this is only 3 sets per product (the 3 colors). The big disadvantage is the confusion that it could introduce.
As you can see, I find both methods to be equally challenging and equally comprehensive. I have all the information to make the Epix sets formatted either way.
This will not be a case where majority rules when casting your decision. What's going to matter is the reasoning given, and how important one way is over the other. (Or if Admin instructs me in a certain way.) I leave it out there for you. Thank you in advance for your contributions to this conversation.
-- Dan --
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