Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

As set forth elsewhere in this forum, it seems that everyone, myself included, likes the new injury tracking feature and I'd like to thank SOM for adding this feature and for continuing to work on improving the game by adding such enhabcements. For me it was a real eye opener, as, like everyone else, I always thought that my teams were particularly hard hit by injuries. But a review of injuries in my various leagues shows that in many cases there were other teams hit harder by injuries, so I guess I can't blame injuries any more when one of my teams does poorly. Of course, a 15 game injury to Joe Dimaggio isn't quite the same as a 15 game injury to Dick Whitman.

I went back to one of my old teams that I felt was particularly hard hit by injuries en route to a dismal 73-89 record and to my utter amazement, it showed only 64 games lost to injuries, a relatively small amount compared to most other teams. Below are links to that team and its injury page:

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/1118493

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/le ... am/1118493

But then I noticed something. The new injury tracking feature does not list injuries for players who were cut during the season. So, for example, Josh Gibson was injured for 15 games in game 67. As my team was off to a slow start with a 30-37 record, with Gibson already having missed 22 games due to injury, with Gibson having a mediocre season (in Minute Maid no less), with other holes to fill on the team, and not wanting to fall farther behind in the standings with Pat Borders subbing for Gibson, I cut Gibson and replaced him with Gabby Hartnett and used the extra money for improvements elsewhere. In other words, Gibson caught just 45 games, but was injured for 37 of the first 82 games, but it doesn't appear in the injury tracker! Yikes!

Unfortunately, Hartnett also caught the injury bug. He had a relatively minor 5 game injury, but then in game 135 got injured for 15 games. With just 27 games remaining. I replaced him with Joe Torre. Hartnett's 20 games of injuries don't show in the injury log.

In addition, I cut Garry Templeton during the season for poor performance. He was injured for 3 games, which also don't show in the injury tracker.

The injuries to Gibson, Hartnett and Templeton total 60 games, nearly 100% more than those reported by the injury tracker. 124 games of injuries tells a much different story than just 64 games of injuries.

Now I'm no computer genius, but I would imagine that it would be a relatively easy fix to include injuries for those no longer on the roster in the injury tracker. After all, the main reason I cut Gibson is because he couldn't stay on the field, and playing nearly $14 mil down for half of the games is a recipe for a losing season.

So new the injury tracker can be improved as follows:

1. Show injuries for players no longer on the roster;
2. Add a column to show the team's record during the injuries;
3. On the player's card, show the games injured for that season.

While we're taking about relatively easy enhancements to the game, how about on each team's page listing the amount spent by each team on pitching and hitting?

Thanks again to SOM for working to improve the game.

I had a similar occurrence with Griffey jr. I stopped using his 9mil card and stuck to his 10mil card becuz of the constant injuries, but he doesn't show up on my list.

Scott.