With my teams I have far fewer "all star" players getting injured than seasons of no injuries, stud or dud.

The Twins lost bot Mauer and Morneau for over a month each last season.

I guess were on the same page here.  I have been fairly lucky with big injuries for 3-4 years now, then this year I lost:

1) A young (25 YO, 75 health)  #5 starter for 100+ days, who because of the injury is now a long relief guy (droped from a 72 overall to a 69 upon recovery)

2) a young (24 YO, 99 health))  #2 (could be a #1 on other teams) to 200 day injury. (droped from a 78 now (84 projected with 1 year of progression likely left) to a 72

3) a young (26 YO, 43 health))  replacement for #2 to a 200+ day injury dropped from a 78 to a 72 no progression left... Granted I took the chance with the low health on this guy, and would do it again given he would have been a dominant #3 starter..

4) my starting shortstop for a few weeks.

Ok I get it, it happens, tough luck, move on.  So I started looking at the history of the league and it seemed like this was happening to one or two teams a year, same thing.  That is what sparked my question.  Is there logic that causes it to be this way or is it just bad luck for those teams it happens to.  Wouldnt it be more realistic if over the last 4 years I had lost 1 or 2 of those guys a year?  Maybe not.

I agree there are less injuries in HBD, but also in HBD the longer injuries are more commonly big deals.  Like when you loose a third year player (first in majors) to a long injury.  He is now less valueable, even if when he returns he gets most of the loss back.  In the majors that happens too, but I would say far more recover and continue to progress then in HBD.

Just what thoughts, I could be totally off base here.

What's the medical budget just for s & g?

Its not great.. 12/12.. but this year I actually increased it because I saw other teams getting hit with these triple threat injuries ;)  So with lesser budgets I got nothing.  I am not complaining about getting it, it happens, I took the chance with low budget, I get that..

There you go. 12 medical is not big. You go 20 and those long injuries go away. Been a long time for me to get over 30 days with 20m medical.

"Is there logic that causes it to be this way or is it just bad luck for those teams it happens to."

No injury-bomb logic built into the engine. It's just the roll of the dice.

Arguably, MLB teams set there training and medical budget very high as they dont want millionaires sitting on the trainer's table. 

12/12 you dont have anything to blame but yourself...20/20 and simmy wont pick on you like that...plus besides the 99 health guy, the others especially 43 health were asking to be out a long time with low training and medical...And their ages are irrelevant...

 I wasnt asking why this happenen to me, I was making a point that it seems the "injury-bomb" logic is built into the game from my team and other teams that I have seen over hte last 4 years.  I know damn well that I was running a risk, and thats why I can't complain it happened..

There is an "injury-bomb".   But it doesn't target star players.  It's just that you get a group of injuries all at once during a season.   If it's 3 LoA scrubs, no one cares.  If it's your CF, SS and #2 SP, it's a HBD conspiracy.

Bill James, STATS guru, has stated quite a few times in his various books that everyone always laments the high number of injuries every year when in reality the level of injuries remains more or less static from year to year. It's an error of perception. When your guys get hurt you obviously notice it more and come to the conclusion that injuries are out of control when it actually is not the case.

Not the case at all, I noticed the injuries each year, it just happens that this was the first year it applied to me.  The whole point was that I noticed other teams having it happen to them, then of course I got my turn, and was wondering about the injury bug.

There is no "injury bug." The results you see are exactly what one would expect from anything based on randomization. Randomization does not mean "spread evenly."

Posted by mitchrapp on 6/18/2010 2:45:00 PM (view original):
But they weren't for the whole season? ;).

OP, you want to stop long *** injuries, up the medical.

Actually when Morneau went down it was for the season.