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Old 08-26-2007, 08:04 AM   #37 (permalink)
beorn
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Ammy injury rating

Suggestion
Players available in the ammy draft should have an injury history rating. To keep it simple, this might just be on a scale of 1-10. To be more realistic, it could be a text hint of the underlying injury proneness -- never missed a game in high school, had major knee surgery his junior year, has missed starts due to elbow soreness, etc. Even the generic league scouts should have access to this info, although a truly elegant solution might allow top notch scouts to assess the implications of past injuries more accurately. That would just be icing on the cake, however.

Reason
Both in real life and in OOTP, this is a major variable, and doubly so with pitchers. And, although fragility may not really be known to scouts, injury history is largely visible.

Priority
In your opinion, how important is this suggestion?
High... One of the major complaints I hear in all my online lieagues is the random terror of talent drops, particularly following injuries. Since injuries are not totally random -- there is a hidden rating, we can, within realism, cut down on the apparent randomness in this way.

HOWEVER, this is NOT a vote to make an injury proneness rating permanently visible. Once the player is a pro, his injury history is the realistic way to show injury proneness.
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