KEEPERS: Using injuries to your advantage

We touched on it in our Keeper League Primer, and our own Dr. HQ, Rick Wilton, reminds us with each column: injuries are a huge part of this game. They can eliminate you or your competitors from your fantasy race; they can also obscure real skills by going under-reported or even unreported. Players who were hurt the previous season can be out-of-sight/out-of-mind for many owners during draft preparation. And spring injuries for players owned by your league's contenders can free up future-year production--sometimes for pennies on the dollar.

Thanks to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, as well as teams' and players' penchants for secrecy and privacy, we often have limited knowledge of injuries—if one has occurred, when it first became apparent, the...

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