As a league admin for 5 current leagues, I have the power to decide who joins the league, change the amount of preseason games, the number of free agency and late free agency weeks plus allow unbalanced trades or use non database names.
I inform all the owners of the parameters set and they are easily confirmed by the owners. I guarantee EVERY owner would want transparency when it comes to the injury rate. Your arguement for not making it transparent isnt as strong as the arguement to make it transparent. The only difference is you have to make a change to make it transparent while not making it transparent means doing nothing.
I have integrity and have no problem with it as is because I will enact my own restrictions to changing the injury rate but unless you can come up with a logically reason why it shouldnt be transparent to all then it's just a matter of not wanting to address the issue.
Look at it logically
TransparencyUPSIDE
Every owners knows the injury rate at all times and when the admin has made any changes. New owners wishing to join leagues can see which leagues are using what injury rates. League admins being accused of tampering with the injury rates everytime someone sustains a serious injury will never happen.
DOWNSIDE
JDB needs to apply some sort of fix
No transparencyUPSIDE
JDB doesnt have to do anything
DOWNSIDE
Owners will be blind to the injury rate and after any significant injury, suspicious and accusations may form and grow. An example of how it could be manipulated by a less then honest admin. The admins team secures a bye in the playoffs so he raises the injury rate to 200 for the Wildcard round in hopes of devasting his competetion while his team rest. The opposite of that is an honest admin gets a bye and a team playing in the wildcard round sustains a serious injury or 2...even though the admin did nothing wrong....an owner could come to think he adjusted the injury rate.
It's only logical to make it transparnet....many benefits....no downside