True to Life, Injuries Can Scramble a Diamond Mind Lineup

With a number of MLB players hitting the DL today – BoSox World Series MVP Mike Lowell and Rays speedy OF Carl Crawford among them – I thought I’d touch on injuries and how they apply to Diamond Mind Online. 

When playing our simulated DML game, just like in real life, players will get injured. In fact, many fans, not just those playing fantasy baseball or sim games, underestimate the frequency of injuries in baseball.

And these usually aren’t the kind of injuries you see in a sport like soccer, where a player gets slide tackled, rolls around on the grass, writhing in pain, clutching a shin, only to pop up -- miraculously healed and apparently pain-free -- when they realize no penalty was called. 

No, baseball injuries are different.  Due to a rigorous day-in, day-out 162-game season, these injuries are usually nagging maladies – a sore shoulder, a tweaked hamstring, a groin pull. Sure, in some cases, they take place at a particular point in time, such as a collision at the plate, but with near certainty, all players find themselves on the DL at some point in their career.

So within DML, under our “player profile” injury system, a player’s risk of injury depends on the relative frequency with which he actually was injured in his real career.  But here's the kicker:  guys like Terry Francona, and Jim Leyland don’t have disabled-list crystal balls, so we don’t provide one either.

To keep DML as realistic as possible, we don’t disclose to owners how injury-prone different players may be, other than to provide occasional lists of players who have had their injury rankings increased or decreased.  

A few final comments on injuries:

• Custom leagues give you the ability to “turn off” injuries if you choose
• Players can only be injured during a game, except if they come off the bench in a brawl (how’s that for real-life simulation?)
• Very few players achieve “iron man” status – these are players who played virtually all of his team’s games over prime seasons of his career 
• Players are not more liable to injury, for example, merely because they were part-timers, or had shorter careers, or lost seasons to military service
• A player is not "credited" with past injuries when he returns to the lineup
• A player's injury risk is not reduced by virtue of having already been injured

I hope this helps bring some clarity to injuries with Diamond Mind.   Check our more injury details in our Reference Section

- Dayne

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