Posted by tlowster on 1/12/2021 3:37:00 PM (view original):
Just had another injury happen and have an anecdote to add.

The guy is an 18 year old rookie and it is an elbow surgery injury where he is out for 208 days. There are 61 days left in the season and 41 days allocated to the playoffs. If you add that to the 110 days that takes place during the roll that is 212 days. This means he misses his opportunity to be placed on the DL next season and possibly fully recover. Even if the World Series ended in four games this season, that would be exactly 208 days and he would just miss his opportunity to fully recover. If he got injured four days later, he would have a chance to fully recover from injury. Injury recovery should not depend on the time he got injured. It should depend on the team's medical/training staff budget, the player's makeup rating and the player's health rating.

Another example of the injury recovery system. The below guy got hurt early in the season and he'll get his one recovery bump and that's it. He will be eligible to be taken off the DL during the playoffs and won't get a rollover bump. It will likely take about three seasons for him to fully recover if he even does fully recover. If he got injured this morning instead of earlier in the season, he'd likely still have gotten this same recovery bump on the second to the last day of the season, a rollover recovery bump and likely would have been DL eligible next season to obtain one or two more recover bumps and get very close to full recovery.

Injury recovery should depend on things like the medical budget, training budget, makeup rating, health rating, age. It should not depend on when during the season the injury occurred.

Player Profile: Paulie Erstad - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

Posted by tlowster on 12/28/2020 11:10:00 AM (view original):
Sometimes an anecdote is the best way to communicate how a bug is significant enough that it needs to be addressed. I will be sharing one below regarding injury recovery, but before I do, I'll say that I agree that putting a high emphasis on recruiting players with a high health rating gives an owner a higher probability to have less injuries which leads to dealing with inconsistent injury recovery less often. However, somebody has to recruit the good players with low to mid-range health ratings. The recruitment of players with high health ratings may solve the issue for your team, but it doesn't solve the issue for the other 31 teams in the World.

I had two pitchers go down with identical elbow surgery this season. One was early in the season and the other was late in the season. So, unless the significance of the weather and the moon have been implemented into HBD, the below inconsistency needs to be addressed.

Player Profile: Walt Rodgers - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports -- early season injury
Player Profile: Albert Sosa - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports -- late season injury

Rodgers had a higher health rating, so I assume that is why he took a less significant ratings hit than Sosa did. Rodgers had a 73 health rating at the time of injury. Sosa had a 54 health rating at the time of his injury.

Rodgers
Durability 40 to 37
Stamina 49 to 46
Control 81 to 76
L split 76 to 71
R split 74 to 69
P1 80 to 75
P2 75 to 70
P3 50 to 47

Sosa
Durability 32 to 29
Stamina 86 to 79
Control 80 to 74
L split 72 to 67
R split 82 to 76
P1 77 to 71
P2 83 to 77
P3 55 to 51
P4 61 to 57

As you can see, despite an identical injury, Sosa took a bigger hit. I assume this is because of his lower health rating. Yet, i predict that Sosa recovers significantly better than Rodgers because Rodgers was injured about 45 days into the regular season and Sosa was injured with only 17 games left in the season. As you can see, despite Rodgers being injured near the beginning of the season, he has not received a single recovery since the injury. I predict that both Rodgers and Sosa will receive the injury recovery on the second to the last day of the season, then no injury recovery in the playoffs. Rodgers will likely become eligible to come off the DL during the playoffs so he'll miss the injury recovery that would normally happen in the off season and he'll definitely be healthy by the beginning of next season. So despite Rodgers having a better health rating and not getting a ratings hit as bad as Sosa, Sosa will likely have a significantly better recovery and it will be almost entirely due to the timing of each injury as opposed to health rating, makeup rating and team budget in training/medical.

Ideally, the 20 million dollar training and medical budget I have would allow both players to fully recover. However, that is not the issue here. The issue is that two players had identical injuries. The recovery of those injuries should be predicated on training budget, medical budget, makeup rating and health rating as opposed to the timing of the injury.

Certainly if both players had a health rating of 90+, maybe neither one gets injured and then I can't have this post that perfectly illustrates the injury recovery issues that the Sim has, but as stated above, good players with low to mid range health are still in the game and if these issues are not fixed, I would think that a certain number of HBD players would eventually leave the game. I have had conversations with a handful of veteran owners and some are contemplating leaving or taking a break due to this. None of them have mentioned that they will continue playing, but only recruit or sign players with elite health ratings.

Revisiting this.

The theory turned out to be accurate -- Rodgers is three points down in control, splits and pitches. Sosa is either even or one or two points down despite being older and having a lower health rating. The point in the season that the injury occurred should have nothing to do with the injury recovery, yet, as evidenced above, it does.

It’s one of the most frustrating parts of the game imo. I get injuries happen, and I have no complaints about the frequency. But like Tlowster said, why should matter what part of the year you get hurt? There’s no real world logic I could think of

This is especially for commissioners, it would be great to have the ability to have recipients be able to reply all to a group sitemail. And maybe it is as simple as creating something called *NameOfWorld*Group. (For instance, name of world is Ohtani. Name of sitemail group is OhtaniGroup) The commissioner can add and subtract names as needed.

For instance, just received a sitemail from a commissioner to our veterans group that checks on other owners and votes on issues. But I can't reply all without looking up the other members of the veterans group and adding them to my reply.

There needs to be a way to differentiate between emails from minor league free agent negotiations and major league free agent negotiations. Either a colour or if the email says ‘major league’ ‘minor league’ etc.

If it’s FA I’m getting dozens of emails and I don’t care if I’m no longer the leader on a low A ball short stop but I do care if I lost the lead on a major league potential star. (This happened in the last 24 hours and I realized I had been sitting without the lead for 3-4 cycles)

Hockey - you don't just go to the Free Agents - Targets list and see where you have the 1 vs. the open circle?

I guess I'm not completely disagreeing with you. I get so many messages between FAs and Coach Hiring happening at the same time, I find it simpler to just look at the status on the FA Targets or Coach Negotiations pages versus closely looking at most messages.

Agree, I don't even open the emails. I just go to the targets page.

Every season seems like someone accepts a trade they intend to reject, or at least once I've been offered a trade, accepted, then had the offering owner say "OMG I offered the wrong player please veto." Then because people either don't pay attention to world chat or are not sympathetic the trade goes through and someone who accepted in good faith has to decide if they want to change the deal.

My suggestion is to implement a pop up box for all trade related actions stating that "You are about to offer/accept/reject a trade and please confirm this is really what you intend. This cannot be undone.": Then people should hopefully not have to ask the league for a veto because they clicked the wrong button or didn't check their work appropriately.

Posted by dw172300 on 6/23/2021 12:12:00 PM (view original):
Hockey - you don't just go to the Free Agents - Targets list and see where you have the 1 vs. the open circle?

I guess I'm not completely disagreeing with you. I get so many messages between FAs and Coach Hiring happening at the same time, I find it simpler to just look at the status on the FA Targets or Coach Negotiations pages versus closely looking at most messages.

10.1.1

Depends how busy IRL I am. I’ll check every cycle when I’m not, but I just started a new job so it’s a once a day thing. Hence why I was out on a guy for 24 hours. The timing just sucked.

Add postseason awards for each series (like in real life and in OOTP). Have an MVP for the each AL and NL Division Series. Also, have an MVP for the AL and NL Championship Series as well as a World Series MVP. This might help some fringe Hall of Fame candidates eventually get in if they have an excellent postseason resume.

Make sure these are listed in the player profile's "award" section and that they are also viewable when voting for Hall of Fame.

Posted by kevinbigham on 7/2/2021 10:02:00 AM (view original):
Add postseason awards for each series (like in real life and in OOTP). Have an MVP for the each AL and NL Division Series. Also, have an MVP for the AL and NL Championship Series as well as a World Series MVP. This might help some fringe Hall of Fame candidates eventually get in if they have an excellent postseason resume.

Make sure these are listed in the player profile's "award" section and that they are also viewable when voting for Hall of Fame.

Agreed.

Clear and consistent messages regarding re-signability would be nice.

Before roll, the player has a message that reads something like, "with free agency looming, I would like to see what the market has to offer. Let's re-visit in the off-season." The dollar values all read $0 in his demands as if he won't consider re-signing.

After roll, the message reads, "im not signing with a team just so they can trade me for a boatload of prospects in a few months." However, the dollar values now populates with numbers in his contract demands (I.e. 4 years at $9.5mm). Often times, once budget is set, the player will revert back to being unwilling to re-sign. Most veteran owners know this and budget accordingly, but new owners may take a while to learn this and get screwed a couple times before learning it.

Posted by pray4pro on 6/17/2021 7:38:00 AM (view original):
It’s one of the most frustrating parts of the game imo. I get injuries happen, and I have no complaints about the frequency. But like Tlowster said, why should matter what part of the year you get hurt? There’s no real world logic I could think of

I agree they happen but, lately, the number of injuries to 1st round picks with good health is alarming. And abnormal - can't convince me otherwise.

I just realized (I had always known but I forgot)

The next pitcher in the rotation action triggers before the player recovery from injury happens.

meaning you can have a starting pitcher that is next in the rotation that has 1 day left until healthy from an injury and they will get skipped over for the next start essentially making them injured for 1 additional day.

can we fix / switch this over please?

Posted by hockey1984 on 8/11/2021 7:19:00 AM (view original):
I just realized (I had always known but I forgot)

The next pitcher in the rotation action triggers before the player recovery from injury happens.

meaning you can have a starting pitcher that is next in the rotation that has 1 day left until healthy from an injury and they will get skipped over for the next start essentially making them injured for 1 additional day.

can we fix / switch this over please?

Hello, this can definitely be something I discuss with the developers about as we start to make changes to see if this is something that could be easily worked into the system.

Can the draft board be expanded past the 500 player limit? Sometimes there's either 1) really good guys with low DUR - I'm thinking specifically of the 25 DUR catchers or 50 DUR/25 STA relief pitchers - or 2) good DITR candidates. Both of these can get missed.