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Hey,
My suggestion is that on a Player's History for a player, their should be a line that indicates injuries and for how long.
For example,
Player A was injured on the 1/5/10 for 2 weeks.

The reason I want something like this, is because I just bought a player of the TL that was injured, but I would like to have some idea of how long he has until he stops being injured. So I would be able to work this out if I knew what date the injury occured (which I know anyway as I looked at his last game) and if I knew how long the injury estimate time was to begin with.

I was going to ask the previous owner but it was a free agent so can't do that.

There are already lines for when the player is sold, or beats one of his personal records like with assists etc, and MVP voting results are also on the player history so why not show injuries.

Cheers

honestly, I don't see it happening

I don't even see a good reason for including that line
doesn't really make sense to have it among the players achievements

You're just suggesting because your player is injured

to clarify a little: the injurytime in the player's info is the estimated time he still is injured.
It doesn't work like: he has a 3 week injury, and when the time passes it is gone.
it goes from showing 3 weeks, to 2 weeks, to 1 week, to disapear.
So there is no need to find out when he got injured to calculate how long he will still be.

The number you see , is the number the injury is estimated to still last.

(I just got the intention this was not the way the initiator of the thread thought it worked, which is why I clarify)

yeah stupid injuries lol! :P

I understand that the number is the time remaining, what I mean is that the player I bought was injured on the 16th of April, and I was wondering what the length of injury time was then. That way, I could work out more accurately how much time is left.

For example a 2 week estimate can be anything from 14 days to 20 days right? Well if I knew that the initial injury was 2 weeks, and the time when I bought the player now says 1 week remaining (which can be anything from 1 day to 13 days right?), then if the player was injured 19 days ago with a 2 week injury, then I would be able to deduce that he would be coming back to play in the next day or so.

But because I bought the player and he is injured still for 1 week, I don't know if that is 13 days or 1 day remaining.
Make sense?

yes, I understand now.

I'm not sure if it's possible to make such calculations that are acurate enough to matter.

What I mean is:
if it shows 2 weeks, you might want to know when he got injured, so you can see if he already dropped a week, or is just at 2 weeks since last game, or since 2 games ago.
BUT
the drop has a prety random factor in it, so that it could last 3 or 4 days more then you might expect.
SO
in the end, even if you nkow the exact date he got injured, it is still hard to tell when he will return. Especially if you look for a certain game you want to use him in...

In the rare cases where someone realy might benefit from knowing. He can always look up in which game it happened prety easy:
Just look for the last game he was in the roster with players taken to the game. (injured players can not be taken to the game)

Well he was injured on the 16th of April (23 days ago). Now does that mean that the time of the injury has to be 3 weeks? Which would mean a possible injury time of 21 days to 27.99 days right? So that means that he has to be healed in the next 6 days is that right?

I don't think you can calculate it like that.

This is the way how I THINK it goes:

player has x week injury. Next dayly update the system checks for injuryadaption: the chance the number goes down = formula which holds a random factor and the days since change.
each day the change it drops is getting bigger, until it drops and then you start over until you reach 0.
BB probably has programmed it so that it is likely it will get to 0 on day 7, but you can't tell.

An example:
a 3 week injury. on day 1 chances are practically 0 he will heal, same on days 2 and 3, on day 4 chances get bigger but still small, on day 5 and day 6 chances keep increasing, but still no healing. day 7 chances are good he heals a week, but you are unlucky and the random factor makes him stay at the same amount. You are even more unlucky and day 8 still no change. Chances are pretty high he will heal on day 9, but you won the lotery in the wrong way, no healing. On day 10 you get lucky (heh, what is called lucky, you should be VERY unfortunate not to see him healed, but I think it's still possible).
If this repeats itself, you only get him back after 30 days.
The other scenario is that you are so lucky he heals every 5 days and you get him back after 15 days.

Most cases will happen in between, but nobody can tell what happens if you get REALY unlucky. I don't know if there even is a limit on the max of days a "week" can hold, or that chances of healing just keep going up but never reach 100%, and you might get an exceptional case where 1 week lasts like 30 days... (however I don't think that's the case, logically speaking they will have limited it at some number, but nobody knows which)

So theorethically and averagely speaking you can say yes: a 3 week injury will last between x and y days. But in reality, you can never be sure.

ah okay interesting. There is a simple way to check :P
Have you ever seen a player who has had a 1 week injury last longer than 14 days? (Directed to anyone).
Or a player with a 2 week injury healed quicker than 14 days?
Or anything like this?

I forgot to mention that the doctor-level is also in the formulla.

and yes I had a player heal quicker then 14 days with a 2 week injury, I got him back after 13 days (had a level 4 doctor at that time).

14 days for 1 week will be very rare as chances he heals will by then be very high. Yet we can't tell for sure nobody in the BB world has ever had it (not everyone keeps track closely enough to determine precise dates and such), and even IF it never happened before, we can not be sure it's impossible.
But since chances will be so low that it will ever happen, we can assume it won't, but asuming doesn't mean we can be absolutely sure...

Haha okay. Well my player is back :D so this suggestion can be scrapped :P