This chart shows one player's injury history as two lines across seasons. One line is the number of games he missed. The other is the number of injury episodes that appeared on his team's report. Together they separate a player who is merely listed often from one who actually misses time.
Choose a player from the filter to see his seasons side by side. A player with 3 or 4 report entries a year but almost no missed games is a very different bet from one whose smaller number of episodes each cost him weeks. Seasons in which he was healthy appear as zero, so the line doesn't skip a year.
It's built for the question that comes up before a draft, a trade, or a prop bet: is this player actually injury-prone, or does he just show up on the report?
How to use it: Set the Player filter before you run it. If it's left blank, every player's seasons are mixed together.
How it's built:
- An episode is one continuous stretch of an injury on the report. A gap of two or more weeks starts a new episode.
- An episode is an injury designation on the report. It doesn't mean the player missed a game.
- A missed game is a week in which the player's final status was Out, Questionable-Out, or Doubtful-Out. A week counts once, even if he had more than one injury listed.
- Counts cover the regular season from 2016 through the most recent week loaded. The current season is partial and will be lower than a full year.
- Years between a player's first and last appearance on the report with no entries show as zero. That means he wasn't on the injury report. It does not necessarily mean he played every game, since he may not have been on a roster.
- Non-injury designations (rest, illness, personal matter, and similar) are excluded. Left and right are combined, so Left Ankle and Right Ankle both count as Ankle.
- Players are matched by name, so two players who share a name may be combined into one line.