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fearofmimes · 04-29-2003, 01:44 AM

Okay, I figured it out and was able to undelete the player. Apparently, there are two fields that are changed when a player is deleted. The first is the free agent indicator (79 bytes from the beginning of the last name field), which is toggled from 1 to 0. The second is an otherwise unknown field (I'm assuming it is a record deletion indicator, 9796 bytes from the beginning of the last name field), which is toggled from 0 to 1. By reversing these toggles, I was able to recover the deleted player. I am now testing this theory against some scenarios to see how well it works in the general case. I'm writing a little utility to automate the process.

04-29-2003, 01:44 AM	#3
fearofmimes Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 31	Figured it out Okay, I figured it out and was able to undelete the player. Apparently, there are two fields that are changed when a player is deleted. The first is the free agent indicator (79 bytes from the beginning of the last name field), which is toggled from 1 to 0. The second is an otherwise unknown field (I'm assuming it is a record deletion indicator, 9796 bytes from the beginning of the last name field), which is toggled from 0 to 1. By reversing these toggles, I was able to recover the deleted player. I am now testing this theory against some scenarios to see how well it works in the general case. I'm writing a little utility to automate the process.