Extreme Injury experiences

[maligned]

Anyone have any insight as to whether SOM online definitely, most definitely, uses the same injury rules as the board game?
I have JD Drew in the '06 game right now. As of game 43, he will have missed 34 games completely (10 games twice, 8 games once, 6 games once), plus gotten injured in the middle of 4 games that sent him to the 34 games missed, for a grand total of 5 games played in their entirety.
Now, he's a "5" injury rating. In the board game, a 5 rated player will miss approximately an average of 200 plate appearances in a season. I've done the math on this and won't explain it completely right now.
I've also done the math on my current situation--the chances that he would miss as much time as he's missed in a 43-game period amounts to about 1 in 10,000. Am I just royally unlucky, or is there something I'm missing about the online game's injury rules?

[geekor]

Royally unlucky :?

[Detroit-Tigers]

Maybe someone should tell him about the injury mod- you did set it for statistical accuracy, didn't you?

[bigmahon]

I have Drew on about 12 teams at the moment, and he is missing [b:bb4a159d66]way more[/b:bb4a159d66] games than he should be. In fact, all of my injury guys are on pace to [b:bb4a159d66]far exceed[/b:bb4a159d66] their projected number of missed PAs.

Something definitely seems different about this years game...

[maligned]

Thanks for the hot tip, DT. Shelton sucks. :D

[PAULMINICUCCI]

In response to Big Mahon's comment about the frequency and severity of the injuries, I concur. One example is Tony Clark, he played three games, got injuried for 15 games, came back for two more games and went down again for fifteen again. He is a "2" rated injury. I didn't expect Richie Sexson, David Segui here. The same team had Polanco,, my third basemen down at the same time for 15. Seems a little excessive to 2005, but the sample size is so small, who knows.

[emart]

I'm seeing the same problem with my first 2006 team. In the first 24 games, L, Castillo has been injured 3 times so far and has played only 6 games total. Derrick Lee, with his 600 PAs, has missed 6 games, and I've had 2-3 different players injured the whole time. Probably just really unlucky, but it makes you think......

[bleacher_creature]

I'll bet you:

a) Bernie/TSN has no control over this type of setting.
b) these are complete anomolies.

In addition, I can't seem to muster up any sympathy for those who choose to deal with the devil. :twisted: