Not if you don't play like a cripple. Stand up, be an elf. You are a football player. You go play football: who cares if it hurts?Joemanji wrote:The problem with nigglers is that they become less valuable to the team, which means you invest less effort trying to protect them, which means they end up more exposed and so your opponent doesn't have to go out of his way to target them.
If it's a low-skill position player, I could see cutting him on a niggle, because you can't roster his backup and you don't want to invest a lot in him, watch him die to the NI and then have to start over. If it's one of your superstuds with numerous or rare improvements, you've got a huge incentive to play through the niggle, and you were probably planning on protecting him to begin with.
OTOH, you should be running a reservist lino anyway, so if you get a niggling lino, you just stock his replacement per the original plan, and voila! Likewise in a position you have to build into. If you have only two HE Catchers and one of them niggles, no biggie: you were going to hire more Catchers anyway!
