These pictures will be for next season's cards. Editors who work for the card companies then look at the hundreds of pictures and pick the best photograph for each card. Writers are looking up information about each player and then decide what gets printed on the back of each card. They include the player's statistics and interesting facts about the player. This work has to be done fast because most card companies must have the information in November which is just a month after the season ends.
Artists are busy designing the cards.
Dozens of designs are looked at before a decision is made about which looks the best. Computers are used to create the cards. Then the photograph, design and information are combined and stored on a computer disk. These forms look like big posters and may have as many as 110 different cards on each one. The designers, writers, photo and word editors then carefully checked each form to make sure there are no errors.