Anyone else notice more injuries? Topic

taz21
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Perhaps its just me, but I'm seeing a lot of people agreeing with me in my 3 worlds that it appears like injuries have been happening more often over the last couple of months.  I have no stats or figures to back that up, just a gut feeling based upon the observations of my teams and other teams in my world.  Is anyone else seeing this in their worlds?
1/1/2011 10:23 AM
tecwrg
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No.
1/1/2011 10:24 AM
mlhutch
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Yes.
1/1/2011 10:32 AM
prezuiwf
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Let me take a wild stab in the dark: I bet you've had some of your own key players go down with injuries recently, haven't you?
1/1/2011 10:38 AM
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Posted by tecwrg on 1/1/2011 10:24:00 AM (view original):
No.
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1/1/2011 11:07 AM
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Yes
1/1/2011 11:09 AM
taz21
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Posted by prezuiwf on 1/1/2011 10:38:00 AM (view original):
Let me take a wild stab in the dark: I bet you've had some of your own key players go down with injuries recently, haven't you?
yes, but its not just my teams, I noticed it before any of my teams were touched with injuries. 

I've really only had 1 significant injury on my 3 teams combined, a handful of nagging injuries including a starting pitcher hitting the shelf for (2) seperate 16 game stints in his first 3 outings of the year despite 96 health at seasons start, etc...  I've seen other teams hit much worse.  No I haven't bothered to check their medical bugets or anything, as my healthiest team is also the team I'm skimping the most on in medical buget, and I'm not even ******** here.  I've mearly noticed something that my gut tells me is an increase, I've seen others confirm in all 3 worlds, so I was wondering if others are seeing/feeling the same thing in their worlds.  For all I know, someone has a historical track of the # of injuries in any world in any given season and can tell me injuries are no better or worse than past seasons.  But thanks for the condencending question.
1/1/2011 11:21 AM
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Billl James did a study on injuries in ML baseball a few years back because people had been complaining that it seemed like injuries were way up. He stated that the same "sky is falling" attitude occured almost every season. And his analysis indicated tha injuries were no more or less than they had been for decades. It's just that injuries are never expected, so when they do occur(especially to your own players), it always seems like they are happening at a more frequent rate than in the past. But it just isn't so.

1/1/2011 1:55 PM
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No.  And, at the risk of jinxing myself, I haven't had any "significant" injuries to BL players in about 6 months.   That's 8 seasons as I run 4 teams.
1/1/2011 3:04 PM
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Posted by MikeT23 on 1/1/2011 3:04:00 PM (view original):
No.  And, at the risk of jinxing myself, I haven't had any "significant" injuries to BL players in about 6 months.   That's 8 seasons as I run 4 teams.
Lucky bastard.  I have been getting killed over last 3 seasons in all of my leagues. 

Remember the original question was whether you noticed an increased in injuries.  On my teams, I have noticed an increase.  However, I make no judgments on whether this is a problem.  Just stating an observation..
1/3/2011 2:14 PM (edited)
Crump123
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Posted by MikeT23 on 1/1/2011 3:04:00 PM (view original):
No.  And, at the risk of jinxing myself, I haven't had any "significant" injuries to BL players in about 6 months.   That's 8 seasons as I run 4 teams.
I had that to, then a flurry of injuries across all my teams. You can only cheat chance so long.
1/1/2011 5:51 PM
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In 2 of my worlds other owners have posted in the chat about injuries being up, one of whom is a well known owner and commissioner.   In my 3 worlds combined I have had more injuries (mostly minore league but a few to ML guys) in the current seasons than I have had in recent past seasons.  I am not complaining about it and I am not crying becasue my players are getting injured.  I am simply stating that injuries are up recently.

Prior to current seasons, I did (and still do) have the belief that inuries should be happening more to players with lower health ratings and less to players with higher health ratings.   I have not taken the time yet to research the current injuries to see how they break down in regards to health rating. 
1/2/2011 11:02 PM
MikeT23
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Posted by MikeT23 on 1/1/2011 3:04:00 PM (view original):
No.  And, at the risk of jinxing myself, I haven't had any "significant" injuries to BL players in about 6 months.   That's 8 seasons as I run 4 teams.
And I lose a SP for 66 games in the first game of ST. 
1/3/2011 8:02 AM
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The WIS demons monitor the forums...
1/3/2011 8:15 AM
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of course if we ask everyone who has had a major injury in the last three months to describe that injury it will seem like there are a ton of major injuries happening - but if you consider there are thousands of "major" HBD players to get injured it knocks the excitement down a bit.  And yes, I've had two of my best players get hit with bad injuries in the last week on the same team.
1/3/2011 8:59 AM
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