Just to toss two cents in:
I think illegal numbers is the only type of illegal uniforms you could reasonable go back in time to penalize.
If A16 is listed in the scorebook, his participation will be a matter of fact when the scorer marks the book that he participated in a given quarter. So we have in the official scorebook a record of both his participation and his illegal number.
For other uniform violations, we would have no record of whether the uniform was illegal while the player was participating.
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