Posted by tlowster on 5/19/2020 9:44:00 PM (view original):
Posted by damag on 5/19/2020 5:34:00 PM (view original):
Last season, my first round pick - 10th overall - went down for elbow surgery in his final start of the season. 77 Health rating. Ticked me off for about a day, but then I realized it's only the second time it's happened in 47 seasons.
I one World, over the course of about 170 games between two seasons, I had my first round pick from season 41 go down with a major injury, my first round pick from season 42 go down with a major injury and my 20M+ Intl signing from season 42 go down with a major injury. They all went down in either their first or second year and this is significant because those first two seasons are the most crucial from a development perspective.
injuries suck overall, but they suck even more when they happen to prospects. Especially the top three prospects in your entire system that were all early in the early stages of development.
Also, all this happened when I am an owner that manually manages his minors and i make sure to have my true prospect pitchers in a low inning relief role and my true prospect hitters only play about 3-5 innings per game. So the simmy really F'd me over. Even if all of these guys had a health rating of under 50, what are the chances that ALL THREE of them have major injuries during their first or second year as a pro? i would say the chances are slim to none. However, despite one player having a 58 health, another having 81 health and the third player having a 31 health rating, they all got hit with development-affecting injuries.
As stated in my post above, it is quite infuriating when you have multiple injuries in a short period of time. It makes you want to quit the World because you put so much work into building your team and when injuries hit, especially prospect injuries in my opinion, it blows hard. I just had two more guys go down in the above referenced World -- 1. my best mlb pitcher (23 yr old) and one of my Type B prospect guys that was a steal in the draft. Both went down with 200+ day injuries. I have already set myself up for failure by telling myself that if I have one more impact player that goes down this season or next, i am quitting the World, but I doubt I will quit the World. I have put too much time into it. However, I am totally with the frustrating emotion.
I hear that OOTP's injuries are more frequent on the default settings. I have never played for that reason. And, the fact that I don't think I have time learn another game like this.