Injury Proneness

[Sweed]

Injury proneness can improve, at least if a player goes a long time without missing time. My current catcher came in the league as durable and is now an iron man. I'm fairly certain I've seen the same for with players over time increase to "durable" from whatever the rating is before that (sorry, drawing a blank right now).

What I haven't seen is a player with any significant injury improve no matter how long they go from then on without. In those cases the best I think one can hope for is to not continue to go down.

[Mat]

Originally Posted by Charlie Hough

It's possible for athletes to become more durable, even after injuries

I disagree.

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by Charlie Hough

I turn off the injury proneness visibility in my games, but I think you're right, and this is not how it should work in all cases. It's possible for athletes to become more durable, even after injuries, through strength and conditioning training, physical rehabilitation, surgery to fix long-term or lingering physical issues, improving their habits, stretching, etc.

As a general rule, major injuries or repeated injuries should worsen the injury proneness rating, but OOTP should sometimes have players improve their injury proneness. Having it all one-sided is definitely not realistic.

This is a perfect example of different ways you could give players direction as a front office. Long term training for individual players could be a possible new feature. Strength and conditioning, working on new pitches, improving defense, improving plate discipline are just SOME examples I can come up with off the top of my head.

In my mind, the idea would be to make these individual training priorities long term and last for a year. Once you set a focus, (beginning of pre-season) you cannot change it until the following year. Some players could be more responsive to additional training than others, and of course your coaching staffs' abilities would also play a role.

I’m not talking about massive talent boosts, but rather a little help in one area, perhaps at the expense of others. This way it’s a calculated decision, and isn’t something you are just going to do with every player on your roster.

Anyway, just an idea. Feel free to piss all over it if you like.