“…Since the introduction of rook theory by Kaplansky and Riordan [12], the theory has thrived and developed further by revealing connections to, for instance, orthogonal polynomials [7,9], hypergeometric series [10], q-analogues and permutation statistics [2,5], algebraic geometry [3,4], and many more. Within rook theory itself, various models have been introduced, including a p, q-analogue of rook numbers [1,14,20], the j-attacking model [14], the matching model [11], the augmented rook model [13] which includes all other models as special cases, etc.…”