INJURIES INJURIES INJURIES !!!

[amitdoc2b]

Some questions about injuries:

-Anyone ever play a guy with a "5" injury risk a full season? About how long does he last?

-Can an injured player's substitute get injured as well if he is the only one that can play his position? I heard for catchers it doesn't matter, how about other positions?

Thanks.

[MARCPELLETIER]

The only position that is under this rule is the catcher position. If your starting catcher is injured, your back-up catcher will never be. Aside from catchers, though, any back-up can be injured. I've seen teams so depleted with injuries that a starting pitcher was used to start a game in the left field.

[Terry101]

A 5 chance injury player will miis, on the average, about 38-40 games or around 160 at bats. He could miss less or much more-as many as 35-40% of the games- over 250 ab's. Mathematically here are some interesting facts about a 5 chance injury player:

He has a 25% chance of drawing the injury chance in any 3 game set. And,on the average he will be injured for about 3.5 games. So, for every 3 game set, you can expect, on the average, for the player to be injured for 3/4 of a game.

You can expect the player get the injury chance around 12-13 times during the year. Some of these will be for the remainder of the game, some will be for a long time.

If you are lucky enough to make the playoffs and the player is healthy for Game 1 he has a close to a 70% chance of drawing the injury chance in one of his at bats during the playoffs (assuming playing all 12 games).

He has a 50% chance of being injured in any 8 game set.



And as for the response on the other thread, it is not quite correct to say that for every injury chance you lose about 7 % of playing time. If that were correct then a player who had 14 injury chances on his card would be injured about 100% of the time.

Anyway, it is a personal choice. My concern is getting to the playoffs and not being able to field your best team because one or two of your players are sittiing.


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