Record for Most Injury Days on a Championship Team?

I like the new season-long injury log feature!

I thought I'd see who has won a championship with the most injury days. I thought I would start the bar with a $100 million team I just had with the 2013 set featuring Hanley Ramirez, David Wright, Jayson Werth, Franklin Gutierrez and a cast of oft-injured others. 283 injury days:

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/league/injuries/team/1127439

I drafted a team with most of my players get injuries.
This is my log:
http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/le ... am/1130228

approx. 295 days in 80m league -- 246 days in the log, plus a quick count of 49 more for 4 dropped players

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/1117953

That's a lot of dropped players (seven including the pitchers) for a championship team! I remember having the injury-prone Furcal on a 2008 team (and I also used Bobby Crosby as his backup), but that team "only" had 224 injury days - and it didn't win the championship (it tied for the division lead and got shut out of the playoffs on a tie-breaker).

Here's 257in a 2013 $80 mil league:

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/1126984
http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/le ... am/1126984

This team featured an injury recorded at every position (with four 15 game injuries added for good measure).

On the opposite side of the scale is an injury-free team.

Here's 62 in a 2011 $80 mil league:

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/807662
http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/le ... eam/807662

Kung Fu Panda accounted for 29 of the 62 injury days all by himself.

Those are my two outliers so far.

2003 was the Golden Year of injury teams. I think this was also the year we spent like four months on the boards trying to decipher the "unbreakable catcher" code, back when an innocent topic like "Can Both Catchers Be Injured at the Same Time?" could be turned into a full blown three-ring circus, complete with clowns, dancing elephants and carnival-like background music.

This gave me a novel idea: if both catchers could not be injured at the same time, then maybe no more than four full-time position players could be injured on a 13 man roster?

You have to remember, player sets have been constantly refined over the years to the point now we have almost theoretically perfect pricing. But in the early years, walks, homers, double-plays, defense, super-relievers, etc were all wildly mis-priced at different times in the course of the games' evolution. 2003 was the year injuries were wildly mis-priced. So if I could get a team of All-Injury players, I could create a huge edge if I always had nine of them in the line-up at all times.

To completely maximize the edge, I went Three Stud Starters (and One and a Half Super-Relievers):

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/872815

This is where I learned there was no governor on injuries and the pitchers would be forced to bat and play the field. I remember bunches of players constantly going on and off the injury list. I wouldn't be surprised if there was over 400 injury days to this team - it was designed specifically to always have injuries (but still contend for the ring).

I also half recall there used to be a code cheat for bringing up the injuries into view. Since the new Injury Filter doesn't seem to apply to teams prior to 2006, if someone knows how to get the injury list to work, I would love to see this teams' total numbers...

I love that 2003 team, J-Pav. Having Shawn Green there with his 600+ PAs sort of spoils the injury theme, but it's amazing you got away with just five injury-prone infielders. (Well, I guess you had six if you count B.J. Surhoff coming in at 1B.) It's interesting also to know that you had pitchers playing the field. I've had pitchers come in to pinch-hit for other pitchers many times, but I don't think I've ever had one actually play the field.

Thx - Green was such a bargain that year at $2.99. Look at Johnson, Floyd, and Drew at those prices too... 800-900 OPS, are you kidding me?? And my 3e20 shortstop Jeter was the highest price guy on offense!

Regarding Green, I've never been too rigid about a "theme." The goal is ALWAYS to win the ring first. Some guys learn the hard way when they play nine leadoff hitters (ie, a speed team). I actually had it sink in when I kept losing with super high OPS teams. Figuring out the chemistry is what makes run-scoring such fun exercise for the brain. Two or three big bangers make the speed team go, just like a defender, base stealer and walker can make six big bats really produce.

But there really is nothing more fun than having $3 guys being your "big bats"!

And yeah, it's a shame we can't see the box scores for those years. I remember luckyman commenting on my team and he was amazed that in one series, Wilson Alvarez pitched a complete game shutout and then went something like 2 for 4 in one game (playing RF) and 3 for 4 in the other (with a home run to boot, I think). He referred to him as Wilson "Babe Ruth" Alvarez!

2003 was the Golden Year of injury teams. I think this was also the year we spent like four months on the boards trying to decipher the "unbreakable catcher" code, back when an innocent topic like "Can Both Catchers Be Injured at the Same Time?" could be turned into a full blown three-ring circus, complete with clowns, dancing elephants and carnival-like background music.

I do remember those days. It was that debate along with the power zapping debate that really made me realize following the boards could be just as important as knowing the cards. Have rarely carried a third catcher since that time. I am still amazed when I see a team carrying three catchers. Tried telling a few whom I thought were new they did not need to carry three but got rebuffed as if I was trying to trick them. I gave up.

I also half recall there used to be a code cheat for bringing up the injuries into view. Since the new Injury Filter doesn't seem to apply to teams prior to 2006, if someone knows how to get the injury list to work, I would love to see this teams' total numbers...

During the SN/SOM transition SOM said that a lot of the data (box scores, head-to-head, injuries, transactions.....) for the older seasons wouldn't be brought over because of storage limitations. Re your 2003 team.....what's the code cheat for having no blown saves?