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Injury Potential By Position (1 Viewer)
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Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Putting this week's digest together and just noticed this one.No study that I know of and I'm not sure it would be valid if it existed. Each position has its own perils and every player has his own issues (Bob Sanders is a human cannon, Dan Morgan has a glass noggin, etc). I'm not even sure what positions I'd hypothesize to be most and least likely to sustain a significant or chronic injury.No waiver wire, eh? Hope you've got deep rosters then -- that's pretty brutal. Obviously, history of injury and risk avoidance plays a larger role in a setup like this. I think I'd try to double the number of expected starters if you've got the room and lean towards players with fairly sure starting roles with a history of durability.
redman
Footballguy
Actually, each "body type" for the respecitve positions is chosen not simply for performance but for durability. That would tend to normalize the injury potential out there. Still, you'll find certain trends, such as LB's and S's being more prone to sustain concussions, etc. If I had to guess, I'd expect that LB's have the most injury risk, given that they are exposed to all of the potential playing hazards that a defender could face: collision and impact; risk of large bodies falling on them; knee injury due to awkward planting of foot and change of direction; hamstring pulls; etc. The other positions tend to only experience some of those issues, albeit more consistently.Jene Bramel said:
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
While I disagree with the physics calculation just posted 
, I don't necessarily disagree with the underlying point. I think the dudes in the trenches whose legs get cut-blocked, rolled-up-on, etc might have a case though.
, I don't necessarily disagree with the underlying point. I think the dudes in the trenches whose legs get cut-blocked, rolled-up-on, etc might have a case though.
Islander
Footballguy
In the league that I am talking about, we have large roster sizes and we can draft more than double the number of starters. So we have a few extra roster spots to spend (in excess of 2x number of starters). I need to decide how I will allocate those extra spots by position. Injury potential is one of my criteria.
My gut feeling is that DLs are injured the least, then DBs, and then LBs. However, last year was especially bad for DBs (E Reed, Madieu Williams, T Parrish, A Rolle, Darius, Baxter, Kiel, Hamlin, R Harrison, etc.). It did not seem as bad for LBs (R Lewis, Spikes, Hartwell, and to a minor extent Pierce, Zach, Cato). At DL, B Berry was the most notable one to miss significant time, other than that, I don't recall one fantasy team hurting badly due to an injured DL.
I was curious is someone had done calculations over several years. On offense, I think D Drinen made a study similar to that, and calculated the average number of games missed to injury for QBs, RBs, WRs, TEs.
My gut feeling is that DLs are injured the least, then DBs, and then LBs. However, last year was especially bad for DBs (E Reed, Madieu Williams, T Parrish, A Rolle, Darius, Baxter, Kiel, Hamlin, R Harrison, etc.). It did not seem as bad for LBs (R Lewis, Spikes, Hartwell, and to a minor extent Pierce, Zach, Cato). At DL, B Berry was the most notable one to miss significant time, other than that, I don't recall one fantasy team hurting badly due to an injured DL.
I was curious is someone had done calculations over several years. On offense, I think D Drinen made a study similar to that, and calculated the average number of games missed to injury for QBs, RBs, WRs, TEs.
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While I disagree with the physics calculation just posted
Sorry, physics was never my strong suit.
