Summary
Although injuries can be frustrating, they do make the game more challenging – especially when your key players are out for extended periods of time. For the purposes of the injury crisis challenge, we’re going to pretend that certain players are unavailable at various points in the season.
We’ve created this template for you to use.
Injury Crisis Challenge Rules
- Insert your squad numbers into the template to see the injury ‘schedule’.
- Each week, certain squad numbers are shown on the calendar in red. This means they are injured and unavailable for selection.
- Don’t worry too much about squad size, the template should work for small or large squads (but feedback is appreciated).
Aim
This is what we call a restriction-based challenge, so your aim is generally to win. Can you still meet the board’s expectations during an injury crisis?
This is likely to be a good option for someone who is looking for a challenge that only takes one season, or can be included in a regular career mode.
Obviously one potential drawback of this challenge, is that the players aren’t really injured and might take offence to being dropped. Deal with this as best you can. The challenge we have created is just a stop gap, we are still optimistic that EA will add improvements one day including proper challenges of this sort.
Clubs
Whoever you like! It really depends on how challenging you’re looking to make this. A bigger squad will find it slightly more manageable. Also, strength in depth is an important consideration. A squad with able deputies will fare better than one that relies on a strong starting XI.
Tips
- Depending on the schedule, you could avoid the wrath of your players by sending your ‘injured’ stars on loan, recalling them when their injury is over.
- Use the calendar to your advantage and plan ahead, rotating where necessary.
