Originally Posted by JeffR
As mentioned in the FHM9 announcement, we've enabled the presets.txt file for historical games, which will allow them to start with the injuries and suspensions that existed at the start of the game's first season. The file will be very complete back to 2013, since I just used the presets files from each previous version of FHM, but to start with I've only got a couple of hundred entries for pre-2013 seasons. Basically just the major injuries and longer suspensions, and a few other things. It's a good start but a long way from being complete, so I'd appreciate any help people can contribute in fleshing out the list.
The current version of the file is attached below. The format is listed at the top of the file, 0 in the first column = injury, 1=suspension.
If there are any historical injuries or suspensions that need to be added, let me know here. Keep in mind that these need to be injuries or suspensions that existed at the start of the NHL season and caused the player to miss games - the vast majority of injuries happen after that and won't be listed here. I've also added a couple of new injury types that won't be used by the game to create new injuries, "personal reasons" and "cancer", but can be used here. I've used "personal reasons" to include a lot of guys who shouldn't be able to be signed in particular seasons, but show up now as RFA's or UFA's in the game - Dryden when he took a year off in 1973, pre-comeback retirements of Lafleur, Howe, Lindsay, etc.
You don't need to format your contributions as in the file, just give me the name, season, injury type, and the approximate time they returned or number of games they were suspended for. "Suspensions" can include team suspensions, not just league ones, e.g. when players were under contract but held out and refused to play, as well as players who weren't suspended but were in jail (MacTavish, Probert, Danton, etc.) One exception: military service; it'd break the roster AI if we used suspensions to model that, because so many players would be gone during World War 2. We're working on a better system to handle those guys.
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