[PhillieFever]

Originally Posted by injury log

And just a few comments on the philosophy behind the file posted in this thread:

-it is not a good idea to identify whether an arm injury is to the right or left arm. A pitcher sustaining an arm injury in-game will almost always suffer that injury to his throwing arm, and the game can't distinguish, by looking at the lines in injuries.txt, which arm that is. Further, pitchers can lose ability because of injury in the game, and that only makes much sense when injury affects their pitching arm;

-separating the 'fractured rib' diagnosis into multiple diagnoses, each of which identifies the specific rib that has been fractured, will make the fractured rib diagnosis appear 24 times more often, all other things left equal. There was only one player sidelined in 2007 with a fractured rib (Jerry Hairston), so it is not a common diagnosis;

-some diagnoses that are used in real life do not appear in the file because they are duplicative. 'Intercostal Strain' is one example; the file already includes overlapping diagnoses that are more often used in real life;

-there's certainly scope to improve the frequency numbers in the file. It's time consuming to do, unfortunately, since so many factors interact to determine how often each injury occurs - the number of different play types on which the injury can happen, the range of durations the injury is permitted to have, and the frequency value in the injury file. At least now, with the frequency value in the file, it's possible to make this aspect better, but I'd be nearly certain it's not all that close at the moment (though much better than in past versions of the game).

-someone complained above about the durations 'hamstring strains' are permitted to have in the game. In real life, for injuries lasting about one month, 'hamstring strain' is *by far* the most common diagnosis in baseball - it's not even close. Phil Hughes, Cody Ross, Endy Chavez and Dave Dellucci were all sidelined for between 50 and 90 days with hamstring strains in 2007, and Rocco Baldelli missed five months, though his circumstances were unique. The max value for one of the two severe hamstring strain diagnoses in the file should be lowered - that's been logged as an issue.

While I believe the new file can with some work be very good,I have to agree with IL here on all of his points,I've ran a few long term tests and all of these issues took prevelance.