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Injury Report

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Every listed player with the designation, the injury, whether the injured-list seat can take him, how widely he is rostered and how many games his club plays this week. Verify against your league's official status before the lineup locks.
— Out — Day-to-day — IL eligible — Long term — Rostered in half of leagues — Clubs affected

Injury IL Return Updated

Sorted by designation, then by how widely the player is rostered. Click Player, Status, Rostered or Games this week to re-sort; a third click returns to the default order. Tap the arrow on a row for the injury note.

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What a basketball designation tells you, and what it does not

Basketball injuries are daily events, and the report reads differently from the once-a-week list a football manager is used to. Out means out for that night's game and nothing more; the same player can be out on Tuesday, day-to-day on Wednesday and starting on Friday. Day-to-day is the designation that matters most and means the least: it covers everything from a sore ankle that clears by tip-off to a hamstring that quietly becomes three weeks, and in practice a day-to-day player plays more often than not. The report here carries what a lineup decision needs beside the designation: whether your league's injured-list seat can take the player, how widely he is rostered, and how many games his club has this week, because a player worth stashing is a player somebody else would otherwise pick up.

Read it in the morning, when the previous night's exits have been written up, and again an hour before the first tip, when the game-time decisions land.

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The IL column

Every major host gives a basketball roster injured-list seats, three on the most common default, and the rule for who may sit in one is the same everywhere: the player must carry an Out designation on the platform's own report at the moment you move him. A day-to-day player is not eligible, however long he has actually been missing, and a player who is cleared while sitting in the seat has to be moved out before you can make another add. The IL column here marks the players whose current designation would qualify, with a second, longer flag for injuries that read as months rather than nights, from the return date the report carries or from the note. Two cautions. The platforms read their own reports, which can lag or lead this one by a few hours, so a flag here is a strong hint and not a guarantee; and some leagues run an extended seat that also takes day-to-day players, which the column does not try to model.

Rostered share and games this week

The rostered column is the share of leagues on the platform that publishes it in which the player is on a roster, and it is the quickest read on fantasy relevance there is: a player rostered in ninety percent of leagues who goes out for a month is a stash decision for the manager who has him and a trade target for everyone else, while a player rostered in four percent of leagues is a note in the margin whatever the injury. The games column is the player's club's games in the current fantasy week, Monday to Sunday, from the schedule feed. A day-to-day player on a four-game week is a different problem from one on a two-game week, and a manager deciding whether to hold him through the week or drop him for a streamer wants both numbers on one line, which is why they sit side by side.

Load management and the second night

Not every absence is an injury. Clubs rest healthy veterans on the second night of a back-to-back and before long road trips, and the designation those players carry on game day is usually a generic one that this report shows as it is written. A player who appears here as out with a note about rest will be back the next night, and treating him as a stash candidate wastes the move. The schedule planner marks the back-to-backs for every club, and a rest absence almost always lands on one of them.

Next man up

The report is also where waiver-wire value is born. When a starter goes out for a month, his minutes do not vanish; they go to the next player at his position on the same club, and that player is usually on the wire the morning the news lands. Filter to a club, look at who is out and at what position, then open the player directory for the same club and find the reserve who fills that slot: the guard behind an injured point guard inherits the assists, the reserve center inherits the rebounds and blocks. The eligibility pill on each row tells you which seats the injured player was filling, which is the seat the replacement needs to fill on your roster too.

What this page cannot see

It does not see the platform's own designations, which are what your league actually enforces, and it does not see the pregame decision that turns a questionable into an active thirty minutes before tip. It does not know your roster, so a player rostered in half of leagues may already be on yours or on nobody's. The designation age on each row is real: a listing from last week that has not been updated is shown as last week's, never as this morning's because the report was rebuilt this morning. Before the season the list is the offseason list, long-term rehabilitations and summer-league injuries, and it fills in with the game-day designations once games are played.

Designations come from our own feed, rebuilt through the day. If the feed is unavailable the page says so rather than showing a stale list as though it were current.