(*) FANALYTICS: Dropping like flies

I've been hearing a lot of bellyaching lately about the huge increase in injuries this year. Fantasy leaguers have been hit with major losses to high profile players, like Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford, Pablo Sandoval and Jacoby Ellsbury.

This past week or so has been rough—I'll give you that. But on a grand scale, this might actually be considered an average year compared to recent seasons.

Over the past four years, about 50% of all players in the pre-season ADP Top 300 ended up spending some time on the disabled list. If it was evenly distributed, we would expect about 10% of the players to hit the DL in any given month (note that we remove September from that calculation because teams don't typically use the DL in...

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