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Originally Posted by Sweed
My best guess is flu/cold is only more likely to bring on more cold/flu. Bruised knees and other minor nagging injury? I don't know. But from what I have seen is players that
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Nope. Overall injury is overall injury. It is true that cold bumped only two things: overall and "other". So two things are actually true: they're more likely to get injured & they're more likely to get the flu. However, they're also more likely to get an even more serious injury.
One injury might not make a "huge" deal (although an 8% increase in overall is nothing to sniff at). The issue is, you combine a cold, bruised knee and fractured hand in one season, it's a huge slippery slope.
Sure, it appears someone who is durable tends to stay durable. It's the guys in-between. It means, unless you're lucky, if you draft a "normal" 18 year old, he's highly likely to be fragile when he's 21. So at minimum, high schoolers should be always be born closer to "durable" and certainly not fragile; in order to have the same injury rating distribution as guys "born" as college players. Although for realism - a complete overhaul would be needed.