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Originally Posted by injury log
The game generates too many good offensive Catchers at player creation in all the testing I've done.
Cinnamon Scudworth is right about injury distribution by position. Injuries almost exclusively happen in games in OOTP. This is not what happens in real life - in real life, often a pitcher will complain of soreness between starts, for example. This leads to two problems:
- players involved in more potentially injury-causing plays are more likely to get injured in OOTP. That's obviously true in general, almost tautologically, but becomes a problem when the plays that cause injuries in OOTP are different from the plays that cause injuries in real life, or when the probability of injury on a certain play is different in OOTP than in real life. Certain positions (and certain types of players) become too susceptible to injury. Outfielders are injured far too often in OOTP.
- just as important, and I think the root cause of most complaints about the number of injuries in OOTP: if players only get injured during games, then the players who get injured most are the players who play most. Those are the good players. The bad players don't get injured as often, because they play less. I want to confirm the extent of this problem with more real life data, but I have the impression good players get injured far more often in OOTP than in reality. It's when users lose their entire starting outfield that injuries seem to be a problem. If instead they lost their starting LF, a backup catcher and a mopup reliever, the injuries would be more tolerable (and I'd contend more realistic).
The injury model hasn't been revised in several years, and some more recent changes to the game have likely thrown off a lot of the frequencies, which at one time were very close to realistic (on the realistic setting). Hopefully this area gets some attention for v18.
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Great post about the injuries; we'll need to mark this down in the suggestions for the next version. Earlier in the year, I did mention this in another thread and was looking to scrape the injury logs to get some concrete info on injuries, never got around to doing it for this version, I guess. But you do notice that, for e.g. outfielders with good fielding ratings tend to get long-term injuries making defensive plays, often in blowout games which can be very vexing.