IDP also known as Individual Defensive Player is a type of league that has its popularity booming of late.  While standard leagues focus primarily on skill positon players and a team’s defense as a whole an IDP league allows for fantasy players to draft the difference makers on the other side of the football which can create for a unique playing experience.  In the 2015 Fantasy Alam Fantasy Football Draft Guide Ivar G. Anderson gives you a look what IDP leagues are all about and why they could be next big thing in fantasy football.

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Draft Guide Sampler: IDP- The Next Big Thing

By Ivar G. Anderson

Most fantasy football owners’ experience with the defensive side of the game is limited to selecting aDefense/Special Teams (DST) to start each week. There are several important techniques for managing your team’s DST such as analyzing whether a team defense allows a lot of points, racks up tackles, sacks and interceptions and, in more advanced systems, whether the team has a decent kick return scheme. I tend to draft my DST just before I draft my kicker, which is usually the next to last pick in the draft. I will not rant about how a savvy fantasy drafter stocks up on offensive players while his opponents are wasting valuable mid to late round picks on a defense (or heaven forbid, two defenses), but generally pre-season DST rankings are highly suspect. Granted, drafting the Seahawks DST last year didn’t hurt anyone, but it likely did not push owners over the top in their leagues unless the commissioner has decidedly strange settings for DST’s point accumulation. I saw Chicago, Denver and Carolina go early in many drafts and I viewed them simply as premature. In short, last season’s results mean “bupkis” for the current year.

Every league I have ever set up has an IDP (Individual Defensive Player) component and this generates a substantial aspect of weekly scoring results for each team. In an IDP league, an owner not only drafts the normal offensive players (QB, RB, WR, TE, K) but also linebackers, defensive backs and defensive linemen. Personally, I like having IDP slots for the same reason I like using holds as a statistical category in fantasy baseball. It opens up a whole group of additional players that have fantasy significance. This means you have to study defensive players as well as the usual offensive players. I also enjoy the fact that using IDP means that I have a vested interest on both sides of the line of scrimmage during NFL games. Most fantasy owners are already aware of star defensive players such as J.J. Watt, Lavonte David and Derrick Johnson. But when you are involved in an IDP league, it is necessary to study other aspects of football, such as the

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