So I tracked all my games, training and injuries in a spreadsheet this season:
Summary:
In 1964 total hours (117,830 minutes) of activity I suffered 14 injuries for 57 days lost.
1,106 hours (66,350 minutes) of training with 4 injuries fr 20 days.
868 hours (51,480 minutes) of match time with 10 injuries for 37 days.
8 different players injured.
5 with 1 injury each
1 with 2 injuries (Starting AMR in Cup, CL, 2nd half of league)
1 with 3 injuries (starting AMR in league only, 1/2 season)
1 with 4 injuries (starting ST in Cup, CL, 2nd half of league)
Worst day: Day 15 with 4 injuries ( 2 per match)
First week: 2 injuries, 11 days
Second week: 5 injuries, 20 days
Third week: 5 injuries, 17 days
Fourth week: 2 injuries, 9 days
No relationship between number of training sessions and injuries (3 of 4 training injuries were on 'light' training days with only 1 or 2 of each type training)
Incidence: 2 during cardio, 1 during practice, 1 during stretching
1,160 of 66,350 minutes were Hard training (1.7%). No injuries during hard training. Not enough data to make any judgement re injury relation to training style.
Match Injuries: 3 league, 4 CL, 3 Friendly, 0 Cup
Total Matches: 26 League, 10 CL, 14 Friendly, 2 Cup (Yeah, it was a lousy season for my Rangers)
7 match injuries using normal tackling (32 games), 2 using easy (10 games), 1 using hard (10 games)
My results correlate favorably to the UEFA study which shows 8 injuries per 1000 hours.
I used 95 red packs to heal 25 days of injuries.
Only once did I fully heal a player. Nine times i healed a player of all but 1 day, and 3 time I let the players heal completely naturally.
I had one 'reinjury"
ST Cintonio injured day 15, prognosis out 3 days. Rested one day, healed one day (which left 1 day injury remaining), recovered and played Day 17 and suffered another 3 day injury.
Obviously one team's data for one season can't be considered conclusive, and it was a pain in the butt recording EVERY training session, game, injury, and treatment, but I'm satisfied. My spreadsheet results can be made available to anyone who is doing a similar/more comprehensive study.
Oh, yeah .. and since this isn't a conspiracy/Nordeus sucks rant, I expect only a few people to show interest, but it's for those few people that I'm posting.
