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Originally Posted by gmo
How many of these have you seen? Was it just guys with huge contracts?
I checked my 12-team league and found over the past 3 seasons 16 cases of season-ending injuries listed in the league injury report. In each case the player was still with the same team at the end of the season when the almanac was created. Of the 16 there were a few I would consider "stars", but I don't believe any had salaries higher than ~$5M per year.
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I haven't counted, but it has probably happened about five times in the 25 year history of my league. Maybe more, but that's what I've noticed. The reason I've noticed is that when you do catobase, you have to put guys released due to career enders back on their last team or it won't display their stats for the year. So at the end of each season, I go checking for anyone in the FA pool who is colored red. Every 4-5 years I find a guy who had a season ender, not a career ender, and was released due to refusing to be removed from the 40-man roster. Only twice have I actually been able to observe the lack of a change in finances after releasing a player as described above, because the other times I really just wasn't looking for it or had no way of telling.