Injury setting question from a noob.
 

So I've had quite a few false starts on starting up a Universe of my own (through editing the rosters, and tinkering with everything to get it where I want it) I usually sim through the first season and pick up during the first full offseason.

I coach every game on both sides of the ball.

Each universe that I've started (I've gotten about 10 games deep into the 2024 season in one save) it's a fact that my team has double the amount of injuries as the average and always the most.

I'm using default injury settings at 100. Is this a product of coaching each game? Could it be from me overworking guys (even though in my depth charts I rarely have anyone in red that indicates too high of a work load)

I would turn the injury setting down to maybe 50? But I'm worried that the AI teams will then have virtually no injuries.

Any help is much appreciated.

I have been running at 75 and there still somes to be a fair amount of injuries on both sides.

How are players injury chances determined? I play as Cleveland and Watson is always out with something by week 3. (I mean not unlike real life, but still)

When you look at the player's card, there is an injury tab that will show if the player has a higher risk of injury than normal. You might find an area of his body that is particularly vulnerable (a longer bar means more risk).

Honestly, I got tired of all the injuries in my universes in past and present versions. I finally decided the only fair way to play was to set them to 0 and remove that particular part of randomness. I didn't do this lightly. I had tried settings of 100, 75, 50, and even as low as 1 and there were still loads of injuries, especially it seemed as the seasons wore on.


I don't like doing this but since we don't have access to an easy player editor like, for example, OOTP does, I figure at least in one way it's just easier to level the playing field for both AI teams and my own team.


It's unrealistic? Yes, but it makes the game a ton more fun and there are still many other challenges to deal with.

Oh yeah. I haven't played SP for any length of time with injuries at anything other than 0 for years now. It removes the tedium of moving players in and out of the depth charts--especially when specialization of game plans is so much more fun in FOF8 and FOF9 than in past versions. If I've got a guy who is great at going across the middle, I'm using him on nothing but even-numbered routes....and ain't nobody got time to find and replace all those routes with odd-numbered ones if he gets hurt and the backup has 17 courage (or "defeat jammers" now in FOF9).

I'll add this here. Not sure I like the frequency of the mono outbreak. This is 2 years in a row and I get like 10 players at 55% effectivness.

Any way to remove that one injury?

There is an injury CSV and I removed the 3 sickness outbreaks so hopefully that helps.

I know this is an ancient post, but I just ran into the mono issue 2 seasons in a row which is pretty absurd considering there's been like 2 players alone in recent NFL history who have had it. Anyway, can confirm there are 3 illnesses listed in injury CSV. It also has some interesting data in there on frequency/seriousness of other injuries that is worth looking at.