Switching of the 10/15 and 60-day IL locations

[Bagpipes5]

Has this caused anyone else some mayhem yet? I mean the buttons have been in the same place for 20 years or so...

[RoxFan22]

Tripped me up at 1st, no idea why they changed it.

[Matt Arnold]

It's sort of a limitation of how we handle the buttons. The main reason is so that the enter key by default would actually be the 15-day list, I think before it actually tended to pick the 60 by default.

We could have a look, maybe at least hide it for injuries that are significantly less than the max time at least, so it would only show on the ones that are close enough you might want the full 60

[kq76]

Would anyone else find it helpful if beside 60-day it had, "(8.5 weeks)"? It just seems like everything is in weeks in OOTP and then whenever I have to decide which IL to put someone on I have to ask myself, "how many weeks is 60 days again, is this guy likely to be injured longer or shorter than that?"

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by kq76

Would anyone else find it helpful if beside 60-day it had, "(8.5 weeks)"? It just seems like everything is in weeks in OOTP and then whenever I have to decide which IL to put someone on I have to ask myself, "how many weeks is 60 days again, is this guy likely to be injured longer or shorter than that?"

I'd find it confusing.

Have never heard a player referred to as being on the 8.5 week DL.

I have heard of players being referred to as being on the 60 day DL.

[kq76]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

I'd find it confusing.

Have never heard a player referred to as being on the 8.5 week DL.

I have heard of players being referred to as being on the 60 day DL.

No, what I mean is when you get notified that a player is injured and that they'll likely be out x weeks, I ask myself "how many weeks is the 60 day again?". If the injury notification said they'd likely be out 40 or so "days" I'd be, "okay, I got it, that's less than 60 days, put him on the shorter IL", but with it telling me the weeks, I don't know why, but I always have to re-think, "how many weeks is 60 days again? and is that more or less than their estimate?".

Who knows, maybe I'm the only one who has to go through that.

[Bobfather]

2 months is approximately 8 weeks. Also, you can put a player on 10/15 game IL and if you need the roster spot later you can switch to 60. A player can stay on the 10/15 DL, no matter how long the injury. The advantage of the 60 DL is that it removes the player from the 40 man roster. And once healed the player needs to be put back on the 40 man roster.

[Rain King]

Originally Posted by Bobfather

2 months is approximately 8 weeks. Also, you can put a player on 10/15 game IL and if you need the roster spot later you can switch to 60. A player can stay on the 10/15 DL, no matter how long the injury. The advantage of the 60 DL is that it removes the player from the 40 man roster. And once healed the player needs to be put back on the 40 man roster.

Yeah, in fact, you rarely see MLB teams place players directly onto the 60-day IL. The only time that would happen is if the team is adding a player to the 40-man in order to replace him. Even if a guy is out for many months, what you see is that at some point down the road the team transfers them from the 10/15 DL to the 60 at the point the 40-man spot is needed.

[Bobfather]

But a player must come off the DL once healthy but remain on at least 10/15/60.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by kq76

No, what I mean is when you get notified that a player is injured and that they'll likely be out x weeks, I ask myself "how many weeks is the 60 day again?". If the injury notification said they'd likely be out 40 or so "days" I'd be, "okay, I got it, that's less than 60 days, put him on the shorter IL", but with it telling me the weeks, I don't know why, but I always have to re-think, "how many weeks is 60 days again? and is that more or less than their estimate?".

Who knows, maybe I'm the only one who has to go through that.

I'm with Bluenoser and Bobfather on this one. It's always been the 60 day DL, and in my mind that is basically 9 weeks. Ie in my mind 63 days is close enough. Calling it 8.5 weeks is too much overthink for my brain.

[kq76]

Originally Posted by Bobfather

2 months is approximately 8 weeks. Also, you can put a player on 10/15 game IL and if you need the roster spot later you can switch to 60. A player can stay on the 10/15 DL, no matter how long the injury. The advantage of the 60 DL is that it removes the player from the 40 man roster. And once healed the player needs to be put back on the 40 man roster.

Yeah, I'd just go with adding them to the shorter IL by default, but I find I often need, or at least want, to use that extra 40-man spot right away (I like to play with highly frequent/realistic injuries).