Just did a test and it does appear that a player must have an injury designation to go on IR. I could place neither Gronk nor Ridley in an IR slot.
I’m sure we can make a rule setting a number less than 6 (3?), and trust each other to follow it and/or enforce it. Just cause theres 6 doesnt mean the rule cant be different.
Let’s roll with 6 IR but definitely change it for next season. We may still have Covid flare ups this season.
IR slots can be added after the draft but not taken away. I see the logic - you could put guys on IR right after the draft was finalized, and if you removed the slots, what would yahoo do with them? Easier just to not allow them to be decreased.
So I looked it up and IR slots allow IR, PUP, and OUT. I thought I remembered it allowing me to place doubtful players on there too. I couldn’t find an official rules page, but a tweet by the official yahoo fantasy account said IR, PUP, and OUT.
I’d be fine with 6 IR slots if they actually have to be on IR, but I don’t love it when you can stick guys that are out for a week on there. Sometimes you have to make interesting fantasy decisions about short term injuries and drops, and it keeps the waiver wire more active. But I don’t think it’s that big a deal. We could ask people not to use more than X slots as an option, but that’d require some enforcement. Not a huge deal really, I suppose. I’m inclined to say we can just leave all 6 slots open as yahoo allows and discuss it over the offseason to decide what we want to do with it next year.
In other news, it looks like Cam Akers isn’t going to be making an unprecedented recovery, he looked pretty awful so far. This play where he runs away from a block is really damning and strange, and makes me wonder if his head is in the game.
He already made the unprecedented recovery, but somehow he looks worse after months off than he did during the playoffs last year. The “head in the game” theory is a good one. There’s also the whole “overreaction week” thing to consider.
Oh right, I forgot he made it back last year. Looking up the stats, his playoffs had 67 attempts at 2.6 yards per carry, so, not great.
It just felt too much like Kenneth Dixon 2.0 to me; I had to drop him for my peace of mind. While I’m glad I didn’t carry Akers on my roster for a couple years of frustration, I was rooting for him in real life.
Ruptured Achilles is no joke.
Work is crushing my weekend so I won’t have time to do my own reviews before week 1, but I wanted to thank @Jules_Andre for posting his. They do help get the juices flowing for the season. Thank you.
I already posted my intentions on rebuilding the team before the draft, so rather than repeating that (every draft pick looks good for year 3, or they would not have been drafted.) Let me respond to the Jules AI and its algorithmic analysis.
The Youth grade is based only on the projected best starting roster. This is a little messy, because a rookie might not be better than a vet this year so they sit on your bench, but would be better for the next 4 years. I’m not sold that the metric is useful. Until this season, I used it as a shorthand to know the combined relative strength and youth of my starting roster compared to everyone else. Now that I have sacrificed youth to gain production, and not lost on the Youth metric, I can more clearly see the weaknesses of the metric
It’s kinda dumb to project fantasy output for players who are pending free agents, or rookies who haven’t proven anything. Or even beyond 2 years at most? Still, I’m really proud of the way the system factors in decline. It works, but it probably isn’t tuned properly. Since the metric itself is so messy, I haven’t bothered to try to fix it
Well - if Davante Parker and Amir Abdullah are in my starting roster week 1 next year things have definitely not proceeded according to plan 
Fyi…IR slots are not available for Inactive players who were otherwise healthy.
This may be slightly premature but all signs point to Jahan Dotson being Jerry Rice II.
Stupid Yahoo projections. Why did I let them convince me that the Browns defense would score more points than the Steelers? Gah!
And of course Rodgers implodes as soon as I get him. Should’ve started Mayfield.
Yeah Baker Mayfield > Aaron Rodgers easily, not sure how you screwed that one up
I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
Anybody read any good speculation on how the 2023 rookie class is shaping up?
Yeah, nice. Rodgers gave me a piddling 3.65 points but I still managed 144.45 for the week. I’ll take it.
Saquon Barkley looks like he’s on a mission. Me likey.
And just like that, I lose Dak for multiple weeks.
I will have the ~4th highest score this week and yet I’m getting absolutely crushed by Petey. If Chris Godwin misses significant time, I’m in trouble.
The Cowboys offense and any coin-flip Manager decision I could have made really screwed me this week.