2018 Panini Immaculate Collection Baseball Forum

The Immaculate Jumbo Bat Set on Panini's Checklist has the 24 cards numbered 1-25, but our checklist shows it as "JB-(Player's Initials) which of the one scan of this set clearly shows on the back JB-RA as its number, not 22 as the Panini checklist says it should be.

My question now is: Should I stop uploading checklists for this product until somehow numbering is confirmed for the cards in these related sets? Panini's checklist shows all cards numeric numbering. I hate to even think that what I've added will need to be corrected to reflect the actual card numbering as alphabetic.

Panini sucks (unless of course you see my comments for today's RCOTD) in the means of how they release checklists especially. They always release a numbered checklist for their inserts, and then of course we find out it is Alpahbetical.  UGHHHH! It makes sense to change the checklist to initials as we see them come out, but they also sometimes don't follow this all the way through and have 3 letters or change  to double last name, double first name, etc... because two players in the insert set have the same initials. Panini is, but not close enough yet for me, as bad as Bowman for numbering/sets.

It's a catch 22. Some of the sets, it would take so long to verify all the card "letters", we'd never get them listed, but if we list them with Panini's checklist, they are almost guaranteed to be wrong (although they occasionally release an insert set with numbers), or if we jump to the conclusion about the initials (or the variant), they almost always break the pattern. Thing is, with doing it the initial way vs. the number way - we're closer to being correct the initial method. I do think we need to exercise a little more patience in getting these checklists loaded. Waiting a day or two could save several of us hours or re-work time later on.

If you don't have in-hand or picture examples of the actual card "numbers" for Panini inserts, I'd never copy their checklist. It's rarely correct. Even when they do use numbers, there's usually a letter in front of them.

Once you have a few samples of the cards in any fashion, you can get a general idea of how they are "numbered". Then adding a CL will be much closer to correct than what Panini says.

I checked some cards on the net with back scans and will probably go from that for the base subsets.

you would have to use the numbers until the alpha's can be verified (unless its a common set). unfort. some of the lower # sets you may never find the card only because its a high end product and low PR - and with panini sometimes the alpha numbers doesn't match the person's name which is typically first initial , last initial  Ex Johnny Manziel is usually #JF, Tim Brown typically # TI and sometimes #TB.. panini is like a cracker jack box.. never know what you're going to get with them