With half the year gone, it seems like a good time to take one more look at injury rates. To remind folks, after a bloody 2037 drew (probably quite reasonable complaints), Matt dropped the injury rate inside the game. The result was about a 40% drop in overall totals. My sense from the league as a whole is this feels closer to “right” in the sense that “right” means that we think dealing with injuries is part of the game, but no one wants a war zone.
Regardless, I’ve been wanting to see how “sticky” the setting is. So I pulled the latest html injury report and ran it through the injury script. The bottom line is that the 2039 rate of injury is nearly identical to that of 2038—with DTD bumps and bruises gently up and lost time injuries gently down. In other words, it seems like the mix is pretty stable for us.
Aside – I should note that we have yet to hit a Career Ending Injury at the BBA level this year (he says, fingers crossing)
Anyway, barring some new twist out of OOTP itself, I’d say it feels like we’ve hit the right recipe?
Below find the respective charts, and then I’ll attach the injury data in .csv form in case anyone wants to do some deeper diving.
