What Injury Shield means for our record

The injury void

FanDuel's optional injury add-on is a rule: if a player in your ticket leaves the game with an injury and does not return, that pick is voided. A voided pick is not a win and not a loss; the ticket pays on the picks that are left. Other books have their own version of the rule under other names. We grade with FanDuel's terms because they are the ones most of our members play under, and we call that record Injury Shield.

How we grade with it

• A card is correct when every Anchor pick hits. A pick on a player who left the game hurt is voided and not counted.
• The record is written wins-losses: 28-15, never "28 of 43". A push or a void is not a loss and not a win.
• Every card is saved before kickoff and graded on the official box score the next morning, misses included.
• The record page has a toggle that shows the same cards without the void rule, so you can see both counts. The headline record is the Injury Shield record.

One card, both counts

A card has four Anchor picks. Three hit. The fourth is on a receiver who left in the second quarter with an ankle injury and did not return; he was short of his line when he left.

• With Injury Shield: the fourth pick is voided. Three of three counted picks hit. The card is a win.
• Without it: the fourth pick is a miss. The card is a loss.

That is the whole difference between the two counts on the record page. Over a season the gap is a few cards, and both numbers are shown.

Why the headline record is the Injury Shield record

Because it matches how the ticket actually settles for a member who plays under that rule. A record that counts an injured player's unfinished line as a loss would be a different number from the one on the member's ticket. We show the other count too, behind the toggle, so nothing is hidden.