Most and Least injured teams over the past two years

[Mr. Scot]

Posted on the Eagles site Bleeding Green Nation (link)

The graphic was apparently posted by a Reddit user, source unknown.  Their stats might have been pulled from Football Outsiders, who tracks a metric of games lost to injury, or they could be using info from longtime Dallas Writer Rick Gosselin who has done a similar thing before (link).

The Eagles grade out as the healthiest team in 2013-2014 while the Giants come out as the worst.

And the Panthers?  According to this, we were the 19th healthiest team in 2013 and the 6th healthiest in 2014.  That puts us at 10th overall for the two year period.

Maybe I'm just being skeptical, but were we really healthier last year than the year we went 12-4?

I do know injuries last year played a role in getting us some new starters.

 

 

 

[SCP]

If you go back to like 2009, I bet we would be one of the most unhealthy teams. There was a stretch there in 2010-2011 where we had 19 guys on the DL both seasons.

[Mr. Scot]

Longtime Panther fans have a sense that we're generally among the most injured teams.

Don't know how true that actually is (never did a stat comparison).  I suspect it's at least a little overblown, but that's just an opinion and I'm not up for researching it.

[Lumps]

Longtime Panther fans have a sense that we're generally among the most injured teams.

Don't know how true that actually is (never did a stat comparison).  I suspect it's at least a little overblown, but that's just an opinion and I'm not up for researching it.

Long time Panther fans love excuses IME.

[RelaxImaPro]

Lol, go back to just 2011 and 2012 and I bet it looks a whole lot different.  We set our franchise record for most players on IR in consecutive seasons both those years IIRC.

We were beat up to hell last season, but most guys played through their injuries: Cam, CJ, TD, Star, etc.

Even still we had quite a few injuries to key players that caused them to miss significant time.  Deangelo, Stewart, Tolbert, Trai, Bene, Philly.  Those are/were all starters and huge parts to our team.  Meanwhile this list probably counts every back up that stubbed his toe into the equation.

That combined with the fact that we cut and benched quite a few people that led to a huge roster turnover, even though those aren't injuries, it just shows the level of crap we went through last season.

[PizzaTheHutt]

aren't we using some kind of GPS tracking system to help keep our guys healthy now? I'm curious to see if it has made a measurable difference in how they practice and play.

[Woodie]

It's not just the number of injuries, it's the significance of who got injured.  Back end of roster guys that get injured don't have near the effect of players at key positions...and we have had a large number of key players with injuries.  Also, your depth impacts the effect of your team's injuries, and until recently, we probably had some of the weakest depth in the NFL, so couldn't overcome our injuries. 

These stats also don't fully take into account players that play with injuries.  For instance, while Cam was on the field for most of the year, his injuries seriously impacted his ability to play at a high level.  So, while we may have technically had fewer injuries that forced players out of the game, they did play a huge role in our bad middle part of the season last year.

[caatfan]

Glad to see a high rank for '14 (considering the W/L record), and obviously don't want to see one for this year. Glad to see a low injury rate for Tampa and Atlanta last year, but not happy to see NO ranked 9th. If they're healthy this year they're likely our biggest roadblock to another division win.

[toldozer]

Glad to see a high rank for '14 (considering the W/L record), and obviously don't want to see one for this year. Glad to see a low injury rate for Tampa and Atlanta last year, but not happy to see NO ranked 9th. If they're healthy this year they're likely our biggest roadblock to another division win.

You're reading it wrong. Saints were the ninth healthiest

[caatfan]

You're reading it wrong. Saints were the ninth healthiest

Never mind then. The title threw me, starting with 'most injured'. 

[panthers55]

It's not just the number of injuries, it's the significance of who got injured.  Back end of roster guys that get injured don't have near the effect of players at key positions...and we have had a large number of key players with injuries.  Also, your depth impacts the effect of your team's injuries, and until recently, we probably had some of the weakest depth in the NFL, so couldn't overcome our injuries. 

These stats also don't fully take into account players that play with injuries.  For instance, while Cam was on the field for most of the year, his injuries seriously impacted his ability to play at a high level.  So, while we may have technically had fewer injuries that forced players out of the game, they did play a huge role in our bad middle part of the season last year.

This. ^^^^^^^^^^^^.

like in most situations, quality means much more than quantity.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

Teams can stash project/fringe roster players on IR and the teams that do this more often will greatly skew their injury stats. For example, we had Kugbila on IR for two straight years, though in general, the Panthers don't use this trick that often.

In the last couple of years we've been lucky with injuries, as is reflected here. For the Panthers entire history I'd say we end up around average, which probabilities tend to do over the long run.

In the past it only seemed like we were unlucky because we had no depth (due to Hurney not being able to draft outside of the 1st round, and spending all the cap space on 6 players). When one or two injuries can completely derail your season it's easy to end up feeling like you're getting killed because of injuries.

[PntherPryd]

what the hell are the giants doing?

 

[t96]

Maybe I'm just being skeptical, but were we really healthier last year than the year we went 12-4?

Not just you, I don't believe at all that we were the 6th healthiest last year. We lost pretty much all of our "starters" on the o-line, Norman, Bene, TD and Klein were hurt at times, Stew, D-Will, Tolbert all hurt, Philly, probably some more I'm forgetting. Oh... CAM! I mean come on.