injuries, injuries, and more injuries! -.-

[Flinger]

I do understand the injuries, and all, specially how they are more frequent on the beginning of the season and all, but come on...

Injuries may be based on premier league, but they are leaving out a few factors that do matter a LOT, like in real life there are a lot of dead periods where players can recover without missing matches, like the holidays, and national team matches. In T11 you have no such periods, so you begin a new season with the same injuries you ended the previous.

Second, i do believe that injury length is WAY of. most usual, for me, is injuries between 4 and 6 days. This is 4 to 6 weeks (of better, 4 to 6 league matches). 1 or 2 days is very, very rare. Now worst, is the REALLY long term injuries you get. You would say that a 1 season long injury is something you should see very rarely. In this morning match i got my 3rd in 5 seasons. this is 19 days long... had already 2 of 20 in previous seasons, not counting a couple of around 14... Then there is the time that a player takes to regain condition, 1 to 2 more days. Greens? nop, i have to use them to recover the shortened squad between matches, as 15 minutes apart means it's impossible to normally recover any player... It's like leaving one match and getting into another just after taking a shower...

Also there is the number of matches on the beginning of the season. TOP Premier league teams have only to care with the league matches, at the beginning of the season, worst case, CL/EL preliminary rounds. We have to deal with 2 games a day from day 3 on, no breaks, until you are out of one competition...
Then, there is squad size... my injury count is on pair with the premier league, or at least, on pair with the TOP teams on the injury list, despite me being extremely careful with training and condition before matches. Difference is i only have 22 players, teams usually have 24/25, and there are a lot more on the beginning of the season. And if you get a really bad season start, there is always reserve teams and even the Juniors Team you can use to complete your squad...
S.C. Braga, my home town's team, had a very hard period a couple of years back, where they had one match for the European competitions where they didn't have enough available players. So they got one or two players from the Junior team to fill in the spots on the bench. It was considered an exceptional situation... I've been on that situation since day 1 of the season. And it's not being the worst season so far...

Then there is the injured players themselves... my main formation is 442 classic. I usually have 2 players for each position.
This makes, as an example, 4 DC's... usually i try to get also players with more than one position... this year still have one DC to hire, but have 1 DLDC and 1 DRDC, so makes 5 DC players total... guess what???? i only have 2 available ATM... Guess which ones are injured??? The Top 3, of course... Add to that my Top ST (bought at the beginning of the season), and my main right winger, and you'll understand why i'm ranting...