Data HQ — Deep Dive 05

The Physio Ward

01 / The Bill What Injuries Cost — and What Discipline Saved

02 / The Triage Three Ways an Injury Ends

How to Read It

● Unrecovered — the injured player sat in a starting slot, scored zero, and no auto-sub fired. Pure scoreboard damage.
● Auto-sub saved — the sub system caught it and a bench player's points counted instead. Crisis averted.
● Safely benched — the manager saw it coming and the injured player was already on the bench. Zero cost.
Injury = FPL status i/u/d with 0 minutes, rostered players only. The slot field is post-auto-sub — see docs/INJURY_COST_METRIC_REVIEW.md.
03 / The Anatomy Lesson Where It Hurt

04 / The Ward The Fifteen Most Broken Men

Gameweeks missed to injury and the estimated points their healthy form would have produced. The award only crowned one Glass Legs — here's the whole ward.

05 / The Timeline When the Ward Filled Up

06 / The AFCON Tax January's Other Departures

Points lost to starters away at the Africa Cup of Nations — the only absence a manager can see coming six months out and still start the player through.