Thread by @TheRealAdam_H, Exited about my latest column on the @TheUndroppables website

Exited about my latest column on the @TheUndroppables website - live now!

You’ve seen me write about this before but I wanted to take a more objective look at knee valgus angles and ACL tears in NFL WRs. https://cantcutlist.com/association-between-knee-angle-and-acl-tears/">https://cantcutlist.com/associati...

Association Between Knee Angle and ACL Tears

There are many medical misconceptions out there, particularly when it comes to fantasy football. One of my least favorite is the idea that football players who display knee valgus during certain movem

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Big shout to @BlakeAHampton for all his help on the analytical side

I asked Blake to take a look at my data to help@me formulate my talking points. Here are the results of the study I did:

To Blake’s credit he took it one step further and used my knee valgus data to predict risk of ACL year and I feel like the results are cool but require some explanation.

In the “ACL group” the first four players I looked at had a really strong predictive value which goes against my theory about knee valgus angle being an accurate predictor for ACL tears.

But that theory took a big hit when you look at Allen Robinson having one of the lowest predicted injury values of all 18 players examined.

Looking at the “non-ACL” group is where the theory of: “valgus angles predicting ACL tears” crumbles. Antonio Brown and Michael Crabtree had relatively healthy careers and no knee issues in the NFL but this model puts them at high risk.

The one that will catch everyone’s attention is Stefon Diggs

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To be clear I’m not predicting a non-contact ACL tear for Diggs. If something like that happened I would have to re-examine But I would argue that the more players I sampled the more this model would be wrong

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I’ll admit the biggest limattion of my little experment here is the sample size but given the data needed to put this all together it had to do for now.

There isn’t alot objective evidence specific to NFL players so at the very least it’s a good staritng point.

Thanks to the whole @TheUndroppables team. Everyone helped me with this one. Look forward to putting out more content like this

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