I am new to the game and wondering about auto-rest settings before the season begins. The Rec. setting is 98% for position players across the board, but intuition seems to tell me that players should be able to play when they are at less than 98% capacity.

Wouldn't they get to 98% after just a game or two and need days off constantly if set there?

At what point does fatigue affect play, if at all?

Where do people usually set these settings?

Thanks in advance for any help here!

A player's Durability Rating is (loosely speaking) the percentage of 9-inning games he can play (out of 162) at 100%.

98% is the rec, and many use this religiously. Others ignore it if they need to win games.

The prevailing logic is that the farther a player is from 100%, the more likely he is to get injured.

The debate as to whether performance suffers below 100% (or 98%) is entirely anecdotal.