i have been playing this game since season 7, so my expectations for what to expect were based on that level of experience. i am not one to keep individual or private records on my team, so i don't have hard and fast data, but it certainly was my impression that i knew what to expect when this player was going to (finally) come of the Injury List. in fact, i had the general impression that managing GS was one of the more controllable, even predictable elements of the game -- i learned the importance of it early on, and distributing minutes properly has a big impact, for example, on the structure of my team (this is why my squad goes deeper than most teams and i have fewer superstars). so i thought i knew what i was doing.
and then this incident comes along. to be accurate, the rest of my squad is more or less where they should be at this time of year, all proficients and strongs, all 8s and 9s (except for my minutes-filler for scrimmages) -- and then there is anomaly. i've accepted the rare event this game produces -- what i call "randomness" -- but from the reactions in this thread, i realize i may have been luckier than i could have dreamed.