ROTISSERIE: A primer on injury grades

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."  —Benjamin Franklin

When it comes to player injuries, we are pretty limited in our ability to prevent the injuries themselves. But as fantasy players we do have the ability to prevent their potentially devastating effects to both our rosters and our chances of winning.

That all starts with a little better understanding of the injuries themselves and the associated treatments and healing processes.

My goal is to take some of the common injury terms that you probably read/hear on almost a daily basis and to attempt to better explain them in few paragraphs that you can actually use to evaluate player injuries yourself—especially with regard to severity and expected healing time—without the...

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