If a player is designated with an O out status for their game that week, they should remain in that status until they can log at least a partial practice. This would allow people to keep players with multiple week injuries but not in IR to stay in IR slots vs having to move them out as Q for a couple days and moving them back. That messes up waivers/FA acquisitions.

It feels pretty BS to take a guy (Mike Evans) who was OUT last week, and is on BYE this week, and shift his designation back to Q so someone must be dropped from the roster for a player who WILL NOT BE PLAYING THIS WEEK. Why would he not remain on O status until his team has actual game practices?

don't use a "Q" injury designation after a guy misses a week, if he might miss another week. If you don't KNOW he will play, he should remain in the "Out" status. Having 2-3 guys on IR who are "Q" totally screws guys putting in Tuesday waiver claims. You have to drop 2-3 who might/might not miss more time, just to add 1 guy from waivers

I'm pretty upset with Yahoo at the moment because it makes no sense. I have Derwin James, he's been out for three weeks with a hamstring injury. Each week he goes to Questionable, and then out immediately - forcing me to activate him if I want to make midweek changes. However, the biggest issue is that this week he has a BYE week this week and is still listed questionable but is out for all intensive purposes until Week 8 no matter what. Why the **** do I need to activate him off of IR prematurely to make a move for another when there is no chance of him playing. This is stupid. Combined with the fact that I have Brian Branch activated this week off the PUP list - now I have to drop two players off of my squad if I need to make any changes with no guarantee either of them will play or be productive. I would like to see smarter IR designations, quicker in real time so that real decisions can be made. Otherwise I'm leaving this podunk forum and will migrate to leagues who really think through locking teams transactions using waivers as a punishment

Yahoo Fantasy should allow a player who was legitimately placed in an IR slot while designated Out to remain there if his status subsequently changes to Doubtful.

Currently, when a player changes from Out to Doubtful, the roster immediately becomes invalid and the manager cannot make waiver claims or other roster moves until the player is removed from IR. This can force a manager to drop another player even though the injured player remains very unlikely to play and may simply be designated Out again later in the week.

I'm not suggesting that Doubtful players should be eligible to be newly placed into IR. Rather, if a player was already legally placed there while Out, he should be allowed to remain there until he is officially cleared/active. At that point, Yahoo could require the manager to activate the player and make any necessary roster cuts before completing additional transactions.

This would prevent weekly injury-designation changes from unnecessarily locking rosters while still preventing managers from using IR to stash healthy players.

Injured players will frequently be declared "out" for a game, but then return to "questionable" after the game. This often will happen for many weeks. When this happens you can put them in the IR spot late in the week when they are declared out to allow picking up another player, but then you have to drop a player on Tuesday before you can even attempt to claim someone from waivers.

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.

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.

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

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)

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!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

^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!!!