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Just noticed the site defaults to a college's baseball team ID (or whatever it finds next down the line) when assigning a college Team to a card in a multi-sport set or a set classified as single sport featuring players from other sports, so just be aware you'll need to adjust the ID to the correct one after. I'm running into this issue with the multi-sport sets right now and have found other players assigned to the wrong sports (e.g. Muggsy Bogues assigned to Wake Forest Baseball).

Example:
North Carolina Baseball = 2866
North Carolina Basketball = 1165
North Carolina Football = 263
North Carolina Misc. Sports = 3636
 

Thanks for the heads up, I never knew this! 

Thats good to know, Thanks for the heads up

Wow, just looking at my North Carolina example and I had to move dozens of basketball players off the football team back to the basketball team. I understand having separate team IDs for each college team/sport, but oh man this is a site-wide headache

I have noticed that too while I was working on the 1993 Classic Four Sport set.

Thats probably not even a decision the database designer made, the database engine needed to make a desicion and went alphabetically.  Could a warning be put on the screen?  

I have spent hours on and off on the project of sorting things out. It gets worse, trust me (check "Alabama football" if you want to see). But yes, an excellent reminder and word of caution to those working on multi-sport college sets 

It is not just college teams either.  You have to pay attention to the pro teams as well when working in Multi-Sport.  While I was working on 95 5-Sport I found the New York Giants cards were linking to the baseball team even though I was choosing the one labeled football from the team list.

-Tom

Good to know. I'll tackle the Buckeyes this week so nobody else has to work on them

If I didn't already have several users lists of "things to do" on the site, I would create a list of the multi-sport sets that need to be verified, then once verified, move to a "done" list and ensure those sets get locked (to then ensure the hard work peple put in doesn't get lost). Anybody want to head this one up? (I think a set by set approach would be much more helpful to the site than a school by school approach.)