Injuries are part of the game. Now, they don’t have to ruin your entries.
What Happens If a Player Gets Injured?
If a player in your entry gets injured early in their selected game, we’ll deliver Injury Relief if the player meets the following criteria:
The examples below illustrate potential payouts available on a Max Multiple Entry. Specific multipliers may vary depending on your selected sports, games, and/or athletes and will be clearly disclosed to you within the app before you complete any entry.
CBB & CFB: Player leaves the game in the 1st half due to injury and does not return in the 2nd half.  Only offensive players in matchups between two AP Top 25 teams are eligible. We’ll use College Football Playoff rankings instead of AP Top 25 for CFB once they’re available.
MLB: -- Batters: Player leaves the game with 2 or fewer plate appearances due to injury and does not return to the game. -- Pitchers: Player leaves the mound with 8 or fewer outs due to injury and does not return to the game. Pitchers who record 8 or fewer outs before a game delay and are removed upon the game restarting due to the delay are eligible.
NBA & WNBA: Player leaves the court in the 1st half due to injury and does not return in the 2nd half.
NFL: Player leaves the field in the 1st half due to injury and does not return in the 2nd half. Only NFL offensive players are eligible for Injury Relief; pre-season picks are not eligible.
NHL: Player leaves the ice in the 1st period due to injury and does not return in the 2nd or 3rd periods.
Vivid Picks reserves the right to void, change, or remove any pick from Injury Relief eligibility, or treat any pick as Injury Relief eligible, at its sole discretion.
How Injury Relief Applies
If you pick MORE on a player’s full-game projection and they get injured early, your pick will be voided unless they already hit their projection. If you pick LESS, your pick is graded as a win if their recorded stat is below the projection.
If the contest still includes at least 2 player picks from more than one team, then it will be graded normally but with an adjusted payout multiplier to not include the insured player's pick multiplier.
If the contest no longer includes at least 2 player picks from multiple teams, then the contest will be canceled and refunded.
Other Injury Relief Scenarios
If you pick LESS on a player who meets the Injury Relief criteria, your pick will be graded as a win if the player's recorded stat is less than their projection.
If you pick MORE on a player who meets the Injury Relief criteria, your pick will be graded as a win if the player hits their projection before getting injured.
Injury Relief does not apply to players who are ejected from the game, benched due to performance/coach's decision, or removed from the game for any reason other than an injury reported from an official team or league source.
Why It Matters
Injuries are unpredictable. Our new Injury Relief feature gives you peace of mind and keeps the fun going, even when bad breaks happen.
