A player I had guaranteed minutes to was injured for 8 games. Now he is back at 60 health, do I have to put him in immediately to satisfy the minutes guarantee or can I wait until he is 100 health?

Posted by bakerbarnett on 8/3/2013 9:13:00 AM (view original):
A player I had guaranteed minutes to was injured for 8 games. Now he is back at 60 health, do I have to put him in immediately to satisfy the minutes guarantee or can I wait until he is 100 health?

Once he's at 60 health, any games your team plays will be ones that he expects to be in so he'll count them toward his calculation of whether or not you're meeting your promise. Whether or not you have to play him immediately depends on how well you've done meeting his promised time up to this point. If you promised 10 minutes and he's getting closer to 15, you might be able to get away with keeping him down a game or two still and letting his health climb a bit more. On the other hand, if you promised 10 and have only delivered 9 per game so far, you're pretty much hosed and need play him or risk ticking the kid off. I've been in your position before...it sucks.

thanks rednu, that's good to know, I have some wiggle room but his durability is so low I figure he'll get injured again

This is a response i got in a ticket once in reference to a question I had about an injured player and the same situation you are in now.

"Just so you know, there is no higher risk of injury by playing someone at less than 100%. There is just the reduced effectiveness."

So feel free to play the guy without worrying if he'll get hurt again. He just won't play as good.

Posted by poncho0091 on 8/3/2013 6:19:00 PM (view original):
This is a response i got in a ticket once in reference to a question I had about an injured player and the same situation you are in now.

"Just so you know, there is no higher risk of injury by playing someone at less than 100%. There is just the reduced effectiveness."

So feel free to play the guy without worrying if he'll get hurt again. He just won't play as good.

I'm wondering if this is reduced effectiveness due to lower stamina?

If a player is at 70%, does he play at 70% of his ratings or is that just a forum myth?

There needs to be a message from the recruit at 60% health telling you he expects to start playing. Instead you get one several games later telling you how disappointed he is in your broken promises. I had this happen years ago, but luckily I had time to get him back in my good graces.

Posted by thewizard17 on 9/30/2018 8:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by poncho0091 on 8/3/2013 6:19:00 PM (view original):
This is a response i got in a ticket once in reference to a question I had about an injured player and the same situation you are in now.

"Just so you know, there is no higher risk of injury by playing someone at less than 100%. There is just the reduced effectiveness."

So feel free to play the guy without worrying if he'll get hurt again. He just won't play as good.

I'm wondering if this is reduced effectiveness due to lower stamina?

If a player is at 70%, does he play at 70% of his ratings or is that just a forum myth?

We've been told (years ago) that the effects of injuries are not as simple as a percentage conversion to other ratings based upon a player's health percentage. We did not get a straight answer on what exactly the effects were, although the possibility for more severe injury was one of them.

I assume combined with what you wrote that this just means the health percentage would be buried beyond what would normally come from whatever the second injury alone would be since the kid starts sub-100.

although admin at the time - way back - did not give a linear or specific answer, it was clear that skillz/effectiveness was hindered by injury - not just a stamina effect.

I think this also makes sense

Cant say that I have found any way to confirm or deny it

Posted by rednu on 10/1/2018 4:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by thewizard17 on 9/30/2018 8:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by poncho0091 on 8/3/2013 6:19:00 PM (view original):
This is a response i got in a ticket once in reference to a question I had about an injured player and the same situation you are in now.

"Just so you know, there is no higher risk of injury by playing someone at less than 100%. There is just the reduced effectiveness."

So feel free to play the guy without worrying if he'll get hurt again. He just won't play as good.

I'm wondering if this is reduced effectiveness due to lower stamina?

If a player is at 70%, does he play at 70% of his ratings or is that just a forum myth?

We've been told (years ago) that the effects of injuries are not as simple as a percentage conversion to other ratings based upon a player's health percentage. We did not get a straight answer on what exactly the effects were, although the possibility for more severe injury was one of them.

I assume combined with what you wrote that this just means the health percentage would be buried beyond what would normally come from whatever the second injury alone would be since the kid starts sub-100.

I think we had a discussion about injuries a while back.

I found a customer support ticket from a post that stated being injured doesn't increase the chance of injury. Maybe the only exception being that since he would be more tired than normal, because his health is less than 100%, that may indirectly trigger another injury?

My injured guy managed to play 29 minutes at 76 stamina @ 75 health. Judging by the other starters than played, it would appear his stamina rating at that health was about 70. Therefore it's possible that his skills were 70/76 were at 90-94% of the current rating, this assuming that the drop in stamina is equal to all other ratings.

It's hard to say, because there aren't a lot of injuries in the game, therefore it's hard to track that kind of statistical data, being a small sample size.