I'm looking at the official game status injury report right now, on Friday afternoon, and Miles Austin is listed as "probable." Flea Flicker right now says he is listed as "questionable." They may change it soon and correct it. But it should NEVER be inaccurate. It should either be accurate, or not there at all.
Flea Flicker also said he was listed as "questionable" yesterday--and the Cowboys' injury report wasn't even out yet then. That's just wrong. If the injury report isn't out yet, then he can't possibly be listed as anything yet.
I've said it before, but let me try this one more time--I love the website, but I hate its inaccurate and misleading injury reports. This has been a constant problem for the last four years, and it hasn't been fixed yet.
And, I predict, injury designations for this Sunday's and Monday's games will remain the same AFTER the games on Flea Flicker, on Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, since this is the way Flea Flicker has done it in the past, even though those will then be old injury designations for a game that has already occurred, misleading everyone who is not on top of when injury reports are published into thinking that the new injury report has come out and that the players have been again given the same injury designations as they had last week.
I, once again, urge Flea Flicker to consider doing it the way Yahoo does it. For Sunday games, I believe NFL game status injury reports are published on Fridays, and early on Saturday morning, Yahoo puts their little red Ps, Qs, Ds, and Os by the appropriate players, and not before then. After the games are all over, they take away the red letters and WAIT FOR THE NEW INJURY REPORT before posting their red letters again.
If a player has no red letter by his name, you as a fantasy player know one of three things--either the injury report is not yet out that week, it's out but it hasn't been plugged into Yahoo that week, or it's out but the player is not listed on it and is therefore going to play. You can then deduce whether the latter is the correct theory by simply looking around and seeing whether any of the other players playing that day have red letters--if none of them do, it's obviously either the case that the injury report for that day hasn't been published yet or Yahoo hasn't plugged the injury designations in yet.
At Flea Flicker, there is no way to tell what an injury designation means at any given time, and therefore no way to trust any of the injury designations at any time.
Also, each year for the last four years, there has been at least one instance, and in some years there have been several, in which a player's injury designation at Flea Flicker as of Sunday morning was not the same as the one at the NFL website (NFL dot com slash injuries).
I love the website for the most part. This is one thing about it that is not right.
What, I think, most experienced fantasy players would find helpful is just Flea Flicker posting the game status injury report when it comes out, and not beforehand. We know basically what that means. The teams are in the best position to evaluate their own players--not reporters. Some teams are more misleading than others when it comes to injury reports, and we know who they are.
Flea Flicker interpreting some news about the player, or using last week's injury report, or however they do it, and plugging that into the terminology that is used for official game status injury reports, and posting it as if it's supposed to help us make lineup decisions right now, for the upcoming games--that's misleading.
There needs to be footnotes, basically. Where is this "probable," "questionable," or "doubtful" designation coming from? That is what we need to know.
Or, if you want to keep just throwing up these single word descriptions, wait until the game status injury report comes out on Friday, and don't post them until then.
The "Out" and "IR" designations--I'm fine if those work differently. The P, Q, and D need to follow along with the thing they are actually coming from. This is how Yahoo does it. I'm pretty sure this is how ESPN does it. There's a really good reason why. It's just misleading to do it the way Flea Flicker does it. It really needs to be changed.
In our league we use other websites for injury information and just ignore these injury designations at Flea Flicker. As commissioner, I make a point of explaining the problems with the injury designations at Flea Flicker, pointing out specific errors, and telling them not to trust Flea Flicker. But it makes the people in my league not want to play here, and it makes them want to move to one of the many places whose injury designations track the official NFL injury reports, and that don't just throw designations out there before the injury reports come out that week.
I do not want to leave. I like it here. I just wish the injury reporting system would be accurate. There are several ways to make it so. Choose one of them. The way it is now is wrong.
RobertKellyFri 9/9/11 4:58 PM
I'm looking at the official game status injury report right now, on Friday afternoon, and Miles Austin is listed as "probable." Flea Flicker right now says he is listed as "questionable." They may change it soon and correct it. But it should NEVER be inaccurate. It should either be accurate, or not there at all.
Flea Flicker also said he was listed as "questionable" yesterday--and the Cowboys' injury report wasn't even out yet then. That's just wrong. If the injury report isn't out yet, then he can't possibly be listed as anything yet.
I've said it before, but let me try this one more time--I love the website, but I hate its inaccurate and misleading injury reports. This has been a constant problem for the last four years, and it hasn't been fixed yet.
And, I predict, injury designations for this Sunday's and Monday's games will remain the same AFTER the games on Flea Flicker, on Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, since this is the way Flea Flicker has done it in the past, even though those will then be old injury designations for a game that has already occurred, misleading everyone who is not on top of when injury reports are published into thinking that the new injury report has come out and that the players have been again given the same injury designations as they had last week.
I, once again, urge Flea Flicker to consider doing it the way Yahoo does it. For Sunday games, I believe NFL game status injury reports are published on Fridays, and early on Saturday morning, Yahoo puts their little red Ps, Qs, Ds, and Os by the appropriate players, and not before then. After the games are all over, they take away the red letters and WAIT FOR THE NEW INJURY REPORT before posting their red letters again.
If a player has no red letter by his name, you as a fantasy player know one of three things--either the injury report is not yet out that week, it's out but it hasn't been plugged into Yahoo that week, or it's out but the player is not listed on it and is therefore going to play. You can then deduce whether the latter is the correct theory by simply looking around and seeing whether any of the other players playing that day have red letters--if none of them do, it's obviously either the case that the injury report for that day hasn't been published yet or Yahoo hasn't plugged the injury designations in yet.
At Flea Flicker, there is no way to tell what an injury designation means at any given time, and therefore no way to trust any of the injury designations at any time.
Also, each year for the last four years, there has been at least one instance, and in some years there have been several, in which a player's injury designation at Flea Flicker as of Sunday morning was not the same as the one at the NFL website (NFL dot com slash injuries).
I love the website for the most part. This is one thing about it that is not right.
Thanks,
OOFFL Commissioner
RobertKellyFri 9/16/11 11:57 AM
I think there's a basic disconnect here.
What, I think, most experienced fantasy players would find helpful is just Flea Flicker posting the game status injury report when it comes out, and not beforehand. We know basically what that means. The teams are in the best position to evaluate their own players--not reporters. Some teams are more misleading than others when it comes to injury reports, and we know who they are.
Flea Flicker interpreting some news about the player, or using last week's injury report, or however they do it, and plugging that into the terminology that is used for official game status injury reports, and posting it as if it's supposed to help us make lineup decisions right now, for the upcoming games--that's misleading.
There needs to be footnotes, basically. Where is this "probable," "questionable," or "doubtful" designation coming from? That is what we need to know.
Or, if you want to keep just throwing up these single word descriptions, wait until the game status injury report comes out on Friday, and don't post them until then.
The "Out" and "IR" designations--I'm fine if those work differently. The P, Q, and D need to follow along with the thing they are actually coming from. This is how Yahoo does it. I'm pretty sure this is how ESPN does it. There's a really good reason why. It's just misleading to do it the way Flea Flicker does it. It really needs to be changed.
In our league we use other websites for injury information and just ignore these injury designations at Flea Flicker. As commissioner, I make a point of explaining the problems with the injury designations at Flea Flicker, pointing out specific errors, and telling them not to trust Flea Flicker. But it makes the people in my league not want to play here, and it makes them want to move to one of the many places whose injury designations track the official NFL injury reports, and that don't just throw designations out there before the injury reports come out that week.
I do not want to leave. I like it here. I just wish the injury reporting system would be accurate. There are several ways to make it so. Choose one of them. The way it is now is wrong.
Thanks,
OOFFL Commissioner