Fix it to... what?

Lady bug

I'll submit this.   Change the injury recovery program and medical budget goes the way of advance scouting.    Straight to 0 for every experienced owner.

Is that what you're suggesting?

I don't necessarily agree. My understanding is that medical budget determines the length of the injury. So when you get correspondence that says "Joe Schmoe injured, out 3-6 weeks", the higher your medical is set the closer to 3 weeks instead of 6 it will be.

Am I wrong?

If I were to assume anything, it would be that medical budget determines your player's degree of success at reclaiming lost ratings points to injury.  My medical is set to 20, for two purposes:  1/ making sure that my injured players "make it back", and 2/ using the "bug" if I need to.

I already have owners in my league running high training and low medical, with the understanding that as soon as one of their players gets injured he becomes trade bait.  Those players are ruined for further use, BTW... but who cares as long as they're not on your team, right?

The bug is part of the incentive to use the medical budget.  I agree with Mike, change Injury Recovery and more owners start using that money to jack up IFA prices.

No, you're not wrong.   But my point pertains to the "other" aspect of medical.   Recovery.  

I always build my teams with depth.   I can withstand losing a guy for 50 games instead of 25.   So, if my player is going to have forever lost ratings regardless of what I budget, medical becomes far less attractive to budget.    I think a lot of owners would see it the same way.

I also agree with damag concerning "that medical budget determines your player's degree of success at reclaiming lost ratings points to injury".

If that doesn't still hold true then Mike's absolutely right.

That's what shobob wants "fixed". 

Recovering original points lost to the injury and exceeding your previous career peak are two different things.

Maybe they couldn't fix the bug without affecting the other, then I say leave it alone.

The more I think about it the more I think it is a non issue. So a guy gets hurt and comes back stronger. That's not unheard of in real life. What is the harm really?

It seems a bit glitchy when you see players with ratings over 100. I don't like it because it's a thing that savvy owners take advantage of. Having said that, I wouldn't want to see the effect of fixing the bug being a race to the bottom with medical budgets, either.