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Man Games Lost

Man games lost is a term used to describe the cumulative number of games missed by injured members of a team during a season of play, particularly in team sports. The term is most commonly used in coverage of injuries within the National Hockey League, while other major sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA) are increasingly utilizing the term in their coverage of the impact of injuries to teams within their leagues. In simplest terms, it is a metric used to attempt to quantify the impact of injuries on the performance and ranking of sports team to other sports teams within the same league.

Origin
The origin of the ue of the phrase man games lost in not currently known.

Calculation
In its simplest form, 1 man games lost is accumulated for every game an injured player misses of his/her team's scheduled games played. For instance, if a team has 3 injured players who don't play within a game, the team accumulates 3 man games lost. Over the course of a season of play, teams accumulate man games lost for games missed by injured players throughout the season.

Variations
More complex variations of the man games lost metric attempt to expand beyond the number of games missed by a particular player and incoporate measures of that players performance for the team during th current season. Two examples are the TMITT and CHIP metrics reported by ManGamesLost.com in their coverage of the NHL.