Injuries

[David Watts]

Okay, I probably need to start this discussion by pleading with everyone to not turn this into a huge pissing contest. I simply want to see if my observations are way off kilter, or if others are maybe seeing the same thing.

I use the normal injury setting quite a bit. If my rosters allow for it, I prefer to use the high(modern day) setting. I look at the rosters in my leagues and see there are plenty of pitchers on the dl with injuries ranging from the minor to the career threatening. I can't say the same for position players. At times, I can run through my entire league and not one position player is on the disabled list. Are any of you seeing this pattern as well?

[Orcin]

Aw come on... you are taking all of the fun out it. Everyone loves a good pissing contest about injuries. No? Well ok then, it is your thread.

I haven't seen this in my leagues. I have a variety of injured players, pitchers and position players.

Edit: Here's my current disabled list... more pitchers than position players but it looked normal to me.




I looked at several AI teams at random, and theirs looked about like mine.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by David Watts

Okay, I probably need to start this discussion by pleading with everyone to not turn this into a huge pissing contest. I simply want to see if my observations are way off kilter, or if others are maybe seeing the same thing.

I use the normal injury setting quite a bit. If my rosters allow for it, I prefer to use the high(modern day) setting. I look at the rosters in my leagues and see there are plenty of pitchers on the dl with injuries ranging from the minor to the career threatening. I can't say the same for position players. At times, I can run through my entire league and not one position player is on the disabled list. Are any of you seeing this pattern as well?

I have and TBH I'm really happy about it. One of my issues in previous years was that there were way too many position players getting longer-term injuries and not a lot of ways to get the game to tone that down. IRL pitchers are really, really volatile and injury rates are one of the biggest if not the biggest reasons why. Like, virtually every team in the league in real life has at least one pitcher on the 60-day DL either out for the season or trying to come back from a big injury. It's just how baseball works and when you run into one of those rare players who can throw and throw and throw without getting hurt you latch onto them for all that they're worth.

[David Watts]

16 team random debut league. July 10, roughly 84 games played. Reserve rosters, no minors. 26 players are on disabled list 22 are pitchers, 4 are position players.

[baltimaher]

As a very new newbie, can you all point me to how you limit injuries in the 19 game?

[r0nster]

I have had it occur where much of my pitching staff was injuried nearly at the same time but that was in OOTP18 but in 19 almost as bad but ever since the OOTP did their adjustment things really have not been near as bad. If I had to guess very close to normal.


The only thing I don't get is why is a few players being put on the big league disabled list when they are in the minors forcing me to use an option. So I go into commissioner mode to correct the use of option. All in all I am pleased with the rate and not having it be 75% one position.

[BIG17EASY]

Originally Posted by r0nster

The only thing I don't get is why is a few players being put on the big league disabled list when they are in the minors forcing me to use an option. So I go into commissioner mode to correct the use of option. All in all I am pleased with the rate and not having it be 75% one position.

These are usually guys who are in the minors, but who are on your 40-man roster. Putting them on the DL shouldn't burn an option, as the option would've already been triggered when you sent them down to the minors (usually at the end of spring training). The only way putting them on the DL would trigger the option is if you had an open 40-man spot during the season and added that player without promoting him to the big leagues, in which case you didn't need to do that as there's no reason to add a guy to the 40-man during the season unless you're calling him up.

[Rain King]

Originally Posted by David Watts

16 team random debut league. July 10, roughly 84 games played. Reserve rosters, no minors. 26 players are on disabled list 22 are pitchers, 4 are position players.

Sounds feasible to me. Pitchers are simply injured at a much higher rate (particularly when considering long-term injuries) than position players.

[TomVeal]

Originally Posted by baltimaher

As a very new newbie, can you all point me to how you limit injuries in the 19 game?

The Game Settings menu has different injury levels, including an option to turn them off entirely.

[baltimaher]

Originally Posted by TomVeal

The Game Settings menu has different injury levels, including an option to turn them off entirely.

I feel like an idiot for asking this. But where is this on the Game Settings menu? It seems to be greyed out and unclickable when I open up the game.

I'm trying to set up an MLB League with a Fantasy Draft, and change the settings. I can't figure out how to do that.

[TomVeal]

Originally Posted by baltimaher

I feel like an idiot for asking this. But where is this on the Game Settings menu? It seems to be greyed out and unclickable when I open up the game.

I'm trying to set up an MLB League with a Fantasy Draft, and change the settings. I can't figure out how to do that.

Under "Game Settings", select "Players & FaceGen". At the top of the left column is "Player Injury, Fatigue & Suspensions". To get a choice of injury levels, check "Enable Injuries". To have an injury-free game, uncheck that box.

[baltimaher]

Originally Posted by TomVeal

Under "Game Settings", select "Players & FaceGen". At the top of the left column is "Player Injury, Fatigue & Suspensions". To get a choice of injury levels, check "Enable Injuries". To have an injury-free game, uncheck that box.

Thanks. Just realized the problem was I was in Challenge Mode.

[r0nster]

Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

These are usually guys who are in the minors, but who are on your 40-man roster. Putting them on the DL shouldn't burn an option, as the option would've already been triggered when you sent them down to the minors (usually at the end of spring training). The only way putting them on the DL would trigger the option is if you had an open 40-man spot during the season and added that player without promoting him to the big leagues, in which case you didn't need to do that as there's no reason to add a guy to the 40-man during the season unless you're calling him up.

for some reason in my solo at end of Spring Training it does cost a option and also when minor league player on 40 player roster on the DL and to put him back to the minors without ever having him for one day in the bigs still cost me a option year too … I know the Spring Training part is normal but the latter part isn't so

[panda234]

Would be nice to adjust injury frequency in challenge mode too. Sometimes I feel like I"m playing "deal with injuries" rather than baseball. Realism is good but so is having fun. But I take it from some of the comments that this has been discussed many times...

[BIG17EASY]

Originally Posted by r0nster

for some reason in my solo at end of Spring Training it does cost a option and also when minor league player on 40 player roster on the DL and to put him back to the minors without ever having him for one day in the bigs still cost me a option year too … I know the Spring Training part is normal but the latter part isn't so

I may not be understanding you correctly, but if I am, then both of those things are working correctly. A minor leaguer on the 40-man roster who does not make your big league team requires the use of an option to be sent to the minor leagues, even if he is coming off the DL when he is demoted to the minors.