Injured players playing

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Latest patch, fictional MLB-style universe:

I was looking at a few minor league batters, and noticed some strange stat lines- one RF had played in 45 games, with no at bats. I thought he might be an extreme defensive replacement, so I checked his fielding stats: all 45 games were starts, 29 innings played in total, 5 total chances in the outfield. His history revealed the bug- he was injured with a fractured ankle the whole time, not a day-to-day injury, but an on-the-shelf one. For whatever reason, the AI started the player despite the injury, then removed him after half an inning. I've found one other player with a similar stat line and injury history- and I know this player was injured the whole season because I had edited him in January to give him a 12-month injury (he's still injured).

I'm not playing with ghost players, and the season's over now, so I can't go back to check if their teams had a player shortage- their rosters would certainly have had 25 players, but there may have been many injured players on the rosters. In any case, it's a minor bug, but somehow the AI isn't handling injured minor leaguers correctly.

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I've seen this behavior in the major leagues in an on-line league myself. My leadoff hitter was injured and he would start a game, but then immediately be pinch hit for.

TT 3653

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This was marked as something that cannot be reproduced.

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This has now been claimed fixed for the as-yet unreleased third patch for the game. If after installing the patch you continue to observe this problem, please post as such in Tech Support along with the TT number listed above.