Injury alerts that beat your league to the news

Most fantasy apps check injuries a few times a day. We check the official designation feed every 10 minutes, around the clock — every 2 minutes when it matters most — and scan the news wire every 5 for breaking reports. When a ranked player's status moves, the push hits your phone in seconds. Free, no SMS, no spam. The entire pipeline is documented below, because speed you can't verify is just a slogan.

The injury board updates continuously — designations are re-checked every 10 minutes, and every 2 minutes in kickoff and practice-report windows.

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How the pipeline works

Four detection layers, each with its own cadence. Every layer feeds the same wire and the same opt-in alert topic, so you never need to know which one caught the news first.

1
The standing designation poll
The official designation feed (status, body part, practice participation — the same source our nightly board build uses) is re-polled with change detection: only a genuine change in a player's designation, roster status or practice report produces an alert. Conditional requests mean an unchanged feed costs one lightweight check.
EVERY 10 MINUTES · 24/7
2
Kickoff windows — where inactives land
From 100 minutes before every kickoff until 5 minutes after, polling drops to a 2-minute cadence. Sunday-morning "OUT" appearing in this window is the inactives report — the single highest-stakes alert in fantasy football.
EVERY 2 MINUTES · GAME WINDOWS
3
Practice-report hours
Wednesday through Friday afternoons are when the week's designations actually land — DNP / Limited / Full participation moves that decide Sunday lineups. Those hours run at the same 2-minute cadence as gameday.
EVERY 2 MINUTES · WED–FRI AFTERNOONS
4
The breaking-news fast lane
Beat reporters break injuries before official designations flip. A scan of the ESPN news wire every 5 minutes catches injury reports naming any player on the board — and pushes them as reports, quoted and attributed ("ESPN reports: …"), never dressed up as a confirmed designation. The designation poll then confirms, usually within minutes.
EVERY 5 MINUTES · 24/7

What a flag actually means

Every designation is classified into one of three flags — and the classifier cross-checks roster status, so a healed ACL from last season never reads as this week's absence. A player who's Active on the 53-man roster with an old severe injury on his record is returning, not out; a player still rehabbing would be on IR or PUP.

OUT
Ruled out, IR, PUP or suspended. Don't start him; in drafts, price the absence.
RISK
Doubtful, not activated, or a multi-week body part. Start only with a plan B ready.
WATCH
Questionable, or returning from injury on the active roster. Startable — monitor the final report.

The live wire

The most recent injury items, straight from the pipeline — the same feed your alerts come from.

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Questions

How fast are the alerts, really?
Designations are re-polled every 10 minutes around the clock, every 2 minutes in kickoff windows and Wed–Fri practice-report hours, and the ESPN wire is scanned every 5 minutes for breaking reports on board players. Detection to push is seconds. The injury report page carries its rebuild stamp so you can verify the freshness claim any time.
Is it free? What do I need?
Free. You need a free account (so preferences follow you across devices) and one tap on the toggle above — your browser asks permission once. iPhone/iPad: Safari requires adding the site to your Home Screen first (Share → Add to Home Screen).
Will you spam me?
No. Alerts fire only for genuine status changes on board-relevant players — roughly the top 250. Practice-report pushes only go out for DNP/OUT moves, not routine "Limited" days. You can turn any topic off in one tap on the notifications page.
What's the difference between a "report" and a designation?
A report is a journalist's story ("ESPN reports: X carted off"); a designation is the official status. We push reports immediately and label them as reports with the source named — then the designation confirmation follows on the same channel. We never invent news and never present a report as official.
Why should I trust your recovery calls?
Because the methodology is public: severe injury tags are cross-checked against roster status. Active-roster + Questionable = returning (a player still hurt would be on IR/PUP). That "recovery gate" is exactly what keeps last January's surgery from being reported as this week's absence.