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Suggestion
Implement a new category of injuries: suspensions.
Reason
Suspensions cannot be implemented correctly as injuries at present, because injuries are counted in days, not in games. This injury implementation would allow a variety of customization opportunities; disciplinary suspensions could be triggered by off-field events (for visa issues, missing the team flight, bar-room brawls, or in a customized database, steroid use, narcotics use, etc), or by on-field events (doctoring the baseball, corking the bat, charging the mound, beanballing). Suspensions would need a new tag (code 7) in the off-field file. In order for suspensions to work well, there would need to be some control over their frequency; if a customizer is attempting to recreate the 2005 season, there would need to be far fewer suspensions for baseball doctoring than for PEDs.
Note that I am not requesting that, say, steroid suspensions be added to the database, merely that the architecture exist for customizers to modify the database to reflect whatever scenario they choose.
Priority
High, especially if ejections are implemented.
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