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#24351	09/22/2015 12:49:55 pm
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	Had an idea to add a "Games Missed" stat to player cards to keep track of how many games a player misses each season. Might be adding to clutter a bit, but I think it would be a handy stat that might fit between MVP and Age. I know I'd be curious to know how many games my guys end up missing this season due to injury.

#24352	09/22/2015 1:51:03 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	So it would only be for injuries, not for Did Not Play - Coaches Decision? How would we handle this for starting pitchers? All games injured, regardless if it's their start day? Or starts missed? Steve

#24356	09/22/2015 3:03:19 pm
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	The way I'd see it working would be for any player on the major league roster that is unavailable to play due to injury when a game sims would pick up a Game Missed stat. The stat would accumulate throughout the season. It would provide a way to track injuries and maybe identify (whether there is such a thing or it's more of a anomaly we perceive as injury proneness) "injury prone" players amongst your own players or when evaluating free agents and waivers. It would also just be handy to see how many games lost to injury and their effect on your success or lack of it. In a similar way that a "K" is used for a strike, maybe we could use "J" as the abbreviation with a tool-tip that would pop up with "Games Missed Due to Injury"? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe "J" is used as a baseball stat abbreviation is it?

#24361	09/22/2015 3:36:31 pm
Tiger504 Joined: 06/17/2014 Posts: 1314 Kalamazoo Bloody Tigers III.4	Some people, not me, use their minors as a disabled list. Is there a way to account for that?

#24369	09/22/2015 5:33:36 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Some people, not me, use their minors as a disabled list. Is there a way to account for that? Good point Tiger...that's going to make the stat pretty meaningless for some. Need to think about this some more. Thanks, Steve Updated Tuesday, September 22 2015 @ 5:33:57 pm PDT

#24378	09/22/2015 8:09:33 pm
mark41974 Joined: 11/04/2014 Posts: 74 Inactive	Personally I do like the idea though. But yes it does require refinement if implemented.

#24381	09/22/2015 9:20:51 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9592 Haverhill Halflings III.1	It almost sounds like the intent here is to track how often guys get injured. If that's the desire, how about keeping an injury history for each player? Might take up a bit more DB space to keep track of all injuries, but it would be a reasonable stat to track. Games like OOTP and Football Manager keep injury histories on all players. Its a good way to try and determine injury proneness, whether real or imaginary. Things I would expect for injury history would be: Injury Text, length of injury, and date of injury. Updated Tuesday, September 22 2015 @ 9:21:50 pm PDT

#24387	09/23/2015 3:04:31 am
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	I think Rock's idea is a step up from what I was proposing and it would solve the problem of injured players being sent down to the minors to "rehab".

#24394	09/23/2015 9:46:54 am
the gizmo Joined: 02/07/2013 Posts: 574 Inactive	What if the log could be kept under the Stat/graph tab?