FIT’s Injury Data Center describes what happened after recorded NFL injuries. It does not isolate the causal effect of an injury or replace an individual clinical assessment.
Source and update process
The tables use the Fantasy Football Injury Data Tracker. The current published snapshot is dated November 10, 2026. All player rows, position summaries, downloadable tables and charts use that same snapshot. Publishing a checked snapshot updates these views together; a page visit does not change its source date.
Fantasy scoring and the pre-injury baseline
Fantasy production uses the source tracker’s half-PPR scoring. Each episode has its own recorded pre-injury points-per-game baseline. Return-game percentage changes compare eligible post-return observations with that episode’s baseline. The displayed baseline and first return-game values are available by expanding a player entry.
The snapshot preserves source-provided comparison windows and eligibility. Do not assume every episode has the same number of baseline or follow-up games. A combined multi-game window is not substituted for an individual game.
What a 10% trimmed mean means
For each injury, position, metric and return game, we collect eligible recorded percentage changes, sort them, and remove floor(n × 0.10) observations from each end. We average the remaining values. For 20 observations, that removes two at each end; for fewer than 10, none are removed.
This reduces the influence of extreme values without hiding the sample size. The displayed n is the number of eligible observations before trimming. It can differ from the total episode count and from the sample in the next return game.
Games missed and missing values
Games missed is the arithmetic mean of available source values, with its own sample size. A recorded zero is retained. Missing values remain missing and are excluded from the mean; they are never replaced with zero. The source field is carried through as recorded, so unresolved absence classifications and offseason or cross-season episodes warrant particular caution.
Return-game eligibility and separate injuries
Games 1–6 represent eligible observations after return as recorded in the source tracker. Follow-up can stop when a separate significant injury makes the comparison unsuitable. Postoperative tracking and reviewed source exceptions can follow different eligibility rules. The website preserves those decisions rather than inventing subsequent games.
How to interpret the numbers
- These are observational comparisons. Changes in role, teammates, opponents, workload and ordinary performance variation can influence fantasy points.
- Injury categories may combine different severities and treatment approaches. Unknown treatment is not assumed to be nonsurgical.
- A player can contribute more than one distinct episode. Episode counts are not counts of unique players.
- Small samples can produce unstable averages. We label return-game samples below 10 as small; this is a caution flag, not a statistical confidence threshold.
- Snap-share changes are relative changes, not percentage-point changes.
- The averages are not medical clearance, a guaranteed recovery timeline, or a prediction that every player will experience the same decline.
Corrections and attribution
Spot a record that needs review? Contact Fantasy Injury Team with the player, injury week and supporting source. Cite Fantasy Injury Team, the relevant injury page, the snapshot date and the sample size when using these data.