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Injury Designation - Don't automatically change injury designations.

Player injury designations 'reset' every Tuesday morning and players that have IR eligible designations (except IR designations) and are in an IR slot sometimes lose their IR eligible status until the team officially rules them OUT again.

This change will prevent the player's IR eligible status from changing until the player gets a limited or full practice in.

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  • JB ssers commented  ·   ·  Report

    How about you don't force us to place a player on the roster at the beginning of the week unless and until he's cleared to play. I can't make a move because I have a kicker on IR, WHO'S NOT COMING OFF IT FOR A MONTH. But you geniuses at Yahoo make him eligible every week. Cutting the kicker doesn't help, because his replacement is still on the roster.

  • Brian Thomas commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'll give an example of the problem, then a solution. Example. This past week, WR AJ Brown was listed as OUT. So he was put onto my IR and I picked someone off the waiver wire to replace him. All reports are showing that he is likely out a couple weeks. The official injury report for week 3 isn't out yet so yahoo doesn't know what's going to happen. Furthermore, he didn't practice yet, so again, he is still OUT. But for some reason yahoo very often changes the status to "doubtful" which then blocks my ability to use the waiver wire for ANYTHING unless I move AJ Brown back off my IR and drop the replacement player to make room. Then predictably, his status won't change until sunday and he'll be OUT again. This has been happening so much more over the past couple of years. SOLUTION: Yahoo, when a player is listed as OUT, simply do not require them to come off our IR until they are listed as a full participant in practice. If someone is "doubtful" they should still be IR eligible. Seriously, get this right.

  • R R commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is what happens when a dumb **** is left with the responsiblity to make decisions

  • Bryan Teagle commented  ·   ·  Report

    C'mon Yahoo. If you don't implement good suggestions like this one, then users will consistently start to seek out other FF options. (I guess you don't really care about it)

  • frank maselli commented  ·   ·  Report

    surprising his issue hasn't been fixed yet!!!!!it has been mentioned many tims over the years. why can't YAHOO at least update us or solicit info from posters. it still is in gathering feedback for years. it is inaction like this that makes YAHOO look more and more like a 1 man mickey mouse operation!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Brad Hibbard commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree with Bryan Teagle.

    Also, Yahoo, you need to be better about changing an injury designation to Out. You change the points projection to 0, the writeup says the player is out, yet the injury designation remains as Q. This really makes adding a FA difficult if I can't move an injured player to the IR until close to game time.

  • Bryan Teagle commented  ·   ·  Report

    We all know that NFL teams provide TOTALLY MISLEADING Injury designations to try to mess with opponent's game plans.

    This forces Fantasy owners to unnecessarily do the:
    IR on Sunday
    suddenly Questionable on Tues, when you try to submit Waivers
    On Friday or Sun, the player hasn't practiced all week & now he's back on IR status

    This is ruining the enjoyment of FF.
    Yahoo.....please do something. You could allow Commissioners the ability to choose what qualifies for IR in their leagues.

  • Decker Cady commented  ·   ·  Report

    It does not make sense that players that are expected to be out for weeks automatically get the Q designation on Tuesday and making them not able to remain on IR even though it is well known they aren't playing that week. This causes players that need to utilize waivers to (1) either not be able to put in waivers because they have an "ineligible" player on IR even though that player is not going to play but the roster is locked until you move that player to the active roster, or (2) drop a player they didn't want to drop just so they can move that IR player to the active roster so they can unlock their roster so they can make other moves on the waiver wire/FA market. It makes no sense and only screws team owners over more in addition to the fact they have a player out for weeks and need to find help.

    Alternatively, move players to Doubtful and make that IR eligible.

    Two very easy solutions I hope Yahoo adapts, as I have seen this be a constant request for years.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please change this designation. I can't drop Alvin Kamera, not that I would. But 4 weeks out of action and I can't play him. Just make a place to put 2 players regardless of what their issue is. Yahoo should be able to make decisions quickly, but at least in 2 weeks.

  • Christopher Lane commented  ·   ·  Report

    When a player is reported by their team to miss "multiple weeks" it shouldn't be necessary to move that player from the IR position each week and drop another player to make roster additions. Every week you are required to move that player out of the IR position bc "the player no longer qualifies" only to move it back later in the week. That results in unnecessary drops of other players when managing the roster. When a player has surgery or a multi-week injury, their IR designation should remain until the team reports the player available to start in real life.

  • M.A. Stanley commented  ·   ·  Report

    If a player is "out" the week before his bye, then keep him that way during the bye. If he is on your IL and moved to "questionable" during his bye week, you have to add him to your roster and cut someone else in order to make other roster moves even though it is certain that he is not going to play during his bye week. For example, DeAndre Hopkins missed the 3 games before his bye in Week 12, but was moved to questionable during that bye so that he could not be kept on the IL through that bye week. If he was out in Week 11, he should remain out until the Tues of Week 13.

  • J M commented  ·   ·  Report

    For players marked as OUT and IR-ELIGIBLE, their status should remain as OUT and IR-ELIGIBLE until the player actually returns from injury.

  • Matt G commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dawson Knox is listed as DOUBTFUL after having hand surgery. He's out for at least a couple weeks. Please change is designation ASAP

  • Matthew Sesno commented  ·   ·  Report

    ^how many times can I upvote this? It's ridiculously restrictive with only 1 team game per week, and adding Q and D tags to IR eligibility for commish tools would solve it just like the covid change.

    Gronk has a collapsed lung and 3 broken ribs... Yahoo fantasy basketball implemented IR+ which accounted for this and was a HUGE improvement. Huge.

    Please implement Q + D with a toggle or add to IR eligible list this season so we can use it!!!

  • Sean Gilkey commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is a big issue with IR position and how players qualify and don't qualify for it. Now, I know that this is something that is not necessarily the format's fault because in the end it comes down to how the NFL teams are categorizing players for their week to week status.

    For example, Rob Gronkowski. As you can clearly see from the attached picture the Buccaneers themselves say that Gronk will be out multiple weeks, but yet at the beginning of each week he will be labeled as "doubtful." This will make him to lose his IR designation and force me to move him out the IR dropping a player that I would prefer not to.

    I know that this is not a problem unique to myself as I have had other managers in my league complain to me about the same issue. I am the commissioner of my league so I looked in the commish tools section but there was not any setting that I thought would fix this. I attempted to go under the edit lineup section but even in that I cannot move someone to IR.

    One possible solution that another manager in my league had was that the players in the IR position can stay there until they register a practice. For example Gronk has not registered a practice this week so he would be able to stay, but Christian McCaffrey did register a practice on 9/6 so he should be forced to come off the IR.

  • frank maselli commented  ·   ·  Report

    why does YAHOO make the determination before the NFL team does? your crystal ball is wrong wayyyyyyy to often. this has screwed up many a good team. i'm surprised this hasn't been fixed yet. at least wait till friday before locking rosters from acquisitions

  • Ben Dunnigan commented  ·   ·  Report

    YES! If someone left the game with an injury that is likely to last a few weeks, leave them as "out" unless we actually learn that they may play next week. I always have to take guys out of my IR spot and drop someone, only to have them become IR eligible later in the week.

  • Sheridan commented  ·   ·  Report

    This. I am commenting on every post that mentions this, and it has been a lot so far. The fact that there are so many requests for this should tell Yahoo they are screwing this up.

    Alternate solution, expand IR to allow Q and D players!

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