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Old 09-22-2007, 01:46 PM   #93 (permalink)
Kaitiaki
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Suggestion

Add an "Injury Summary" section to the Player Profile screen. This could go below the already-present Injury Status information, or be given its own little tab in the same part of the screen. It should list the following information:

- Number of Day to Day injuries in a player's career
- Average number of Day to Day injuries per season
- Average length of Day to Day injuries
- Number of "lost-time" (non-DtD) injuries in a player's career
- Average number of lost time injuries per season
- Average length of lost time injuries
- Number of times placed on DL in career
- Average number of trips to DL per season
- Average duration of time on DL

If space is an issue on the screen, obviously some of those fields are less crucial the others. The 'raw totals' are nice, but probably less necessary than the information about average number and length of injuries. Also, the information about DtD injuries is less crucial than the information about lost-time injuries.

Reason

With the various "injury proneness" ratings no longer visible to the user, the only way to assess the likelihood of a player being injured is through their injury history. This is realistic, and therefore good. However, the way OOTP presents that injury history - mixed in with all the other player history notes, including Player of the Week awards, contract changes, standout performances and so on makes it a chore to determine whether a veteran player - especially a talented one, who will have a long history file - is "injury prone" or not.

The suggested injury summary would simply distill and summarize the information already present in the player's general history (no additional or "secret" information would be given), and present it in a more easily digestible format for the user. Making important information easier to find and faster to use is always beneficial, as it reduces the sensation of having to 'fight' the interface to find the facts and statistics I need to play the game.

Priority

Medium.

- Kai
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