Don't forget that the concept of "automatic" results hadn't been established yet, since Van Beek was starting from scratch when it came to individual player cards based on stats. We can see that he wanted to keep the hits in a hierarchy, but I think he may have wanted to make sure the other numbers behaved less predictively, so people would have to look at the cards while playing as opposed to knowing just what to expect (as I think most APBA players do on a 12/32/52, 14/34/54 etc, dice roll).
And re Cuccinello's 24 result instead of 34, it may be worth mentioning that you're working from a reprint of the NP set. (The original set didn't have team names on the cards.) So if it's a typo (and I think it is), it could conceivably have happened in the reprinting process.
Don't forget that the concept of "automatic" results hadn't been established yet, since Van Beek was starting from scratch when it came to individual player cards based on stats. We can see that he wanted to keep the hits in a hierarchy, but I think he may have wanted to make sure the other numbers behaved less predictively, so people would have to look at the cards while playing as opposed to knowing just what to expect (as I think most APBA players do on a 12/32/52, 14/34/54 etc, dice roll).
And re Cuccinello's 24 result instead of 34, it may be worth mentioning that you're working from a reprint of the NP set. (The original set didn't have team names on the cards.) So if it's a typo (and I think it is), it could conceivably have happened in the reprinting process.