[Westheim]

There’s really just one thing that annoys me about OOTP right now (other than it foils all my well thought out plans, hates my prospects, and won’t let me win), and it has to do with injuries. I play with delayed injury diagnoses, which adds a certain level of panic to the game, because you never know whether that twitch your stud pitcher felt in his elbow is going to be minor or will require him to be cut open and go to the shelf for 12 months.

What I don’t like about the system is that you have no clue whatsoever what your (or any other) player COULD have suffered in terms of an injury. More than once they are undiagnosed for three days and then it's a blister. C'mon, my team has no money, but our trainer actually has been to medical school at some point!

There is simply no diagnosis at all. When Chase Utley mowed down Ruben Tejada and they put his leg in an air cast, you had a pretty good idea that it might have to do something to do with his leg, even before a doctor got hold of him and that his injury was not a shoulder thing, f.e. …

I like to weave bits and pieces into my dynasty report, too, and I report weekly. So when my pitcher drilled the Crusaders’ young slugging rightfielder, who had already homered in the game, with a pitch on Friday, I would have died to know where he crippled him just to be able to write something like:

Stanton Martin was up again. Boda tried to pitch him in tight to avoid another roundhouse swing, but instead got Martin’s fingers.

Well, I actually wrote that. But I totally made it up, because you can only write “and drilled him” so often before it becomes bland and unsatisfying. Normally I’d see the injury in the next days before the week is out, but it’s Monday and Martin is still undiagnosed, and it sucks. It frustrates me. Our two teams are tied atop the division, and I'm dying to know! For all I know right now, Martin could have a bruised buttock and be DTD for another two days, or actually have suffered a broken finger to miss six weeks, or for the heck of it, Cássio Boda could have beaned him into retirement! In an actual game, you SEE where the batter gets hit, so you know, ah, it’s a hand injury. When Tejada was blown up, it was obviously not an elbow problem, and so on. OOTP gives you nothing, and I am longing hard to get that changed.

Instead of just reporting on a player as

Diagnosis ?
Recovery Time – Diagnosis pending

… have it so that the game actually tells you which body part is affected, and how gruesome it looks in case of injuries where you can have a pretty good guess from the outside, and none when not.

Diagnosis – Hand/Finger injury
Severity – Possibly fractured

Diagnosis – Thigh/Hamstring injury
Severity – Probably mild

Diagnosis – Elbow/Forearm injury
Severity – Uncertain

The last one is for a pitcher that just threw a wild pitch 12 feet past his catcher and definitely felt *something*.