Injury Fantasy

How picks work

One pick Thursday, three Sunday, one Monday. Each slate locks at kickoff (8:15, 1:00, 8:15 ET).
Type a few letters of a player or team and tap a name. Only players whose game is in that slate, and who aren’t out, can be picked.
Submit locks the slate in one tap. Undo takes it back any time before kickoff.
Everyone else’s picks are on the Board once you’ve submitted yours.
Points score themselves from ESPN and Schefter. Tap a pick to see how, or to fix it; a result you set by hand stays.

The game

Injury Fantasy is fantasy football turned around. Every week you pick NFL players you think will get hurt. If one of yours leaves his game injured and doesn’t come back, you score, and every game he misses after that scores again. Niss and Fred play it out over the season; friends can join as guests on the Achim tab.

Scoring

Leaves the game, doesn’t come back	+10
Every extra week he misses	+15
Shaken up, comes back	0
You find out after the week	0

Points score themselves from ESPN’s game data, with Adam Schefter’s posts as backup. If one’s wrong, fix it on the pick; a result set by hand stays.

Making picks

One pick Thursday night, three Sunday, one Monday night, every week. Games outside those slots (international mornings, Thanksgiving, Wednesday to Saturday games) get their own card with one pick each.
Pick someone who’s playing. His team has to play in that slate, and he can’t be out, on IR or suspended when you submit. Questionable is fine.
Each slate locks at kickoff. Thursday, Sunday and Monday lock separately.
Submit locks your picks. You can’t see anyone else’s until you’ve submitted yours. Undo takes it back any time before kickoff.
It has to happen on the field. A player who finishes the game and shows up on Wednesday’s injury report doesn’t count.
Take turns. One name at a time, no duplicates. Who picks first alternates by week.
At a game together? One bonus pick each.
Guests welcome. A friend types a name on the way in and plays their own picks on Achim.
Loser buys the winner a yen.

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Worth remembering

Terry McLaurin was the best pick of the year — about 55 points off one name, and Fred wrote it down wrong.

Kamara won it. Taken Week 12, never came back, paid every week to the end.

Kamara and Devin Neal — same backfield, one on each side, decided the whole thing.

Nobody got an out-for-season all year. Nobody died either.