Bring/Add Injuries to VHL?

[FreshOceanCod 32]

I haven't been in VHL for long, but I always wondered if injuries should be added/added back to the game. I found this to be something very interesting to type about and see if people agree or disagree with what I have written in this post. I will be mainly ranting about the pros and cons about injuries and what situation could cause injuries.

 

Pros:

- I personally believe if injuries were added/added back to this game this would force teams to use prospect players to replace the main players that got injured in their line up.

- Points leaders potentially might lose their foothold in the point race in their league allowing unknown players to becoming more noticeable.

- Teams might lose their potential star players that could cause them to lose allowing games to be more interesting.

 

Cons:

- There be constant line changes depending on how frequent injuries can happen if injuries are added/added back into the game.

- Teams that already suck and are losing could lose their best players  and that would cause them to lose even more.

 

How would injuries happen in the game (in my opinion):

- The more shots blocked by a player the higher chance the player gets injured.

- The more hits received by a player the higher risk of that player getting injured.

- The amount of fights a player gets in could cause them to get injured.

- Goalies could get injured if they are over used and never changed during the season.

- Goalies could get injured potentially by the amount of shots taken on them.

- Goalies could get injured from a player who has a really high shot rating.

 

Another thing that would cause concern about injuries is that of the frequency of injuries happening meaning how often a player can get injured and this could be a bad thing because what happens if a teams player gets injured back to back after getting injured. That would cause that team to suffer losing one of their main players to an unfortunate injury twice causing that team to potentially suffer  a lot more than just one injury. 

 

Another thing also is that teams could face many injuries at once causing a team to lose a lot of their main players changing how the team works and performs overall. This is not a good thing because the team would pretty much lose their identity/play-style if more than half their roster is injured being replaced by prospect players most likely making that team lose a lot more.

 

Overall I believe injuries should be added back because it would make the league a lot more interesting allowing more possibilities to happen, like if a team loses their star player to in juries would that team still be as good as they were before their star player got injured. I also think this could cause a lot of problems. One of the things that should be taken into consideration is that there would have to be different types of injuries and the duration of that injury. I believe that the max amount of games a player or goalie should be injured is 8 to 10.  Another problem would be the VHLM would either have to get smaller or get more players to join their league because VHLM teams don't have prospect players so injuries would be very difficult to have in the VHLM for that reason. 

 

 

[jacobcarson877 2,541]

The main reason we've never really approached injuries, is that it means people aren't playing in games. Fun management challenge, not fun to sit out for days on end because you blocked a shot wrong.

[Banackock 8,060]

4 hours ago, jacobcarson877 said:

The main reason we've never really approached injuries, is that it means people aren't playing in games. Fun management challenge, not fun to sit out for days on end because you blocked a shot wrong.

Get a better cup maybe? 
 

[Grape 680]

12 hours ago, FreshOceanCod said:

- The more shots blocked by a player the higher chance the player gets injured.

Imma end up injured every week

[Triller 1,670]

Great first media spot!  Glad to see you checking out the TPE tasks and giving them a go!  REMEMBER TO CLAIM THIS NEXT WEEK! lol I will try to remind you.

[FreshOceanCod 32]

Yeah I will try

 

[Gustav 6,430]

STHS does have an option to include injuries. And yeah, it's turned off because it's not completely fair to the players. 

 

It's an interesting dynamic that does make management fun though. There have been lots of management leagues over the years where you control a team rather than a player and I think it would be cool to work with in that case.

[Beketov 9,033]

Yeah for GM leagues it’s a really cool idea but for a player sim like ours it kinda exists only to ruin the experience for people. Like how much would it suck to have one of your (already limited) 9 seasons be completely derailed because you got injured and missed half the season? Like you finally get your build to its prime, you’ve got a bit of time before depreciation, and Simon just says “nope, full season injury.”

 

There’s a lot of things where we remove realism for the sake of player enjoyment and injuries are high on that list.