It would be nice...

[claystone]

It would be nice if Jim could have added an injury attribute, which will help us, as GM, see if the player is injury prone or not. Put this setting right under endurance. This will help me when I draft or even when i bid on a FA. Jim, if you could add this please do, thanks.

[Heims]

It doesn't show up for rookies (that I know of) but it does show up for FAs. You just have to know where to look - his front page in the status window it lists all his injuries. Also, you can see how many games played (and how many he didn't play in) on his stats page.

[Big T]

Having a injury rating would ruin some of the fun and risk of drafting, In real life GM's don't have that luxury, they can only base it on history of injuries.

[korme]

If there was an injury rating in real life, my Bengals wouldn't have drafted Ki-Jana Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki-Jana_Carter).

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Sorry Clay, don't really like that idea. Stats and injury history on player card are sufficient, without spelling it out.

[Narcizo]

Might be nice if a college player had an "Injury prone" flag like they can have a red flag so that it's another factor you have to think about when drafting. "Do you risk drafting a stud with a history of injuries or do you take a lesser player without one". Of course there's nothing to say that a player with an injury prone flag will turn out to be perfectly alright while one without might prove to be very injury prone.

[johnnyshaka]

This where college summary/stats would work nicely. If you noticed he missed time and only played half the season during a year or two...was it injury related...off-field antics...academic issues...or just didn't figure into the gameplan those weeks?? I don't think you need it to say he's officially injury prone but maybe it makes mention of having missed 3 weeks due to a broken finger...you decide if that is considered injury prone or not.

[Ben E Lou]

Maybe I'm off base here, but I get the strong impression (heavily based on Jim's explanation of the injury bug fix in the last patch) that all FOF rookies come into league with the same injury rating, and that number increases with each injury, so Heims is likely correct in that all the information we need, we have.

[johnnyshaka]

Maybe I'm off base here, but I get the strong impression (heavily based on Jim's explanation of the injury bug fix in the last patch) that all FOF rookies come into league with the same injury rating, and that number increases with each injury, so Heims is likely correct in that all the information we need, we have.

But how realistic is that?

Whether that's the way it works now...and I'm sure you are correct...or not, this is where another "wrinkle" could be added. This is probably meant for a discussion of his its own...I'll leave at that.

[Ben E Lou]

But how realistic is that?

Whether that's the way it works now...and I'm sure you are correct...or not, this is where another "wrinkle" could be added. This is probably meant for a discussion of his its own...I'll leave at that.Gotcha. I was just responding to the clear implication in the first post: that we may be drafting injury-prone players with no way of knowing that they're injury-prone. I don't know for sure what's going on under the hood there, but it certainly seems like a pretty good bet that said implication is just dead wrong.

[Brownkeg8]

Having a injury rating would ruin some of the fun and risk of drafting, In real life GM's don't have that luxury, they can only base it on history of injuries.

Disagree here. In RL at the scouting combine the players medical history is a huge part of the draft process and very often find structural/ ligament weakness that even the player never knew about. The truth is a future injury can't be predicted, but they sure know if the player has an increased likelihood that his knee may blow out- etc....

[SteveMax58]

Might be nice if a college player had an "Injury prone" flag like they can have a red flag so that it's another factor you have to think about when drafting. "Do you risk drafting a stud with a history of injuries or do you take a lesser player without one". Of course there's nothing to say that a player with an injury prone flag will turn out to be perfectly alright while one without might prove to be very injury prone.

+1

From what I've seen(and based on Jim's comments), I think the others are right in that all rookies come in with equal injury susceptability...but I think it would be a nice addition at some point to have rookies given differring injury ratings (hidden mind you) and then to flag some of these players.

Not sure how you determine which players show this flag though(i.e. do you err on the side of being "too accurate", or is it a 50/50 thing for players who really do have low injury ratings, or do you include a %10 chance for players who are within 10% of a poor injury rating to mimic the incorrect assesments?)

[claystone]

Thanks for commenting on the issue.

I was hoping for a meter or a history of a rookies injury, like in real life. This will help with drafting, especially when two players are close in skills, but one is more injury prone, or even better. When one player is better then the other, but the higher of the two has an high injury prone rating. Do you gamble and take the better the player with a higher injury rating?

This is what I was looking for. This is common information in the NFL.

This is just a thought.

[claystone]

Thanks for commenting on the issue.

I was hoping for a meter or a history of a rookies injury, like in real life. This will help with drafting, especially when two players are close in skills, but one is more injury prone, or even better. When one player is better then the other, but the higher of the two has an high injury prone rating. Do you gamble and take the better the player with a higher injury rating?

This is what I was looking for. This is common information in the NFL.

This is just a thought.

[FFL Buffalo Bills]

Will there be the abilility to resign your coach? Your Head Coach retires and you have a really good OC and DC with Ex HC skills And you want to promote one of them to HC without having to fight it out for one during staff hire stage..Or if anyone of them have a year left and ya would like to extend their contract as HC,OC,DC...

Does anyone have game plans for FOF 2004 I see something in archieves but it doesn't have a download link like the one for FOF2007

[Koprnkc]

Total Pro Football had an injury rating for players / rookies it seemed to work pretty well, as even players that your scout rated as injury prone could go their entire career in the pros and not suffer an injury or they would truely be injury prone