Calling all IDP-league guys

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Calling all IDP-league guys

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starting this year

is the key just plugging in a LB from a shitty offense team and just getting bread and butter tackles?

here are the settings that we use in the league I've played for the longest.

solo tackle .5
assisted tackle .25
QB Sack 4
Interception 7
Forced Fumble 3
Fumble Recovery 2
Defensive TD 6
Safety 2
Pass Defended 1
Blocked Kick 10

Julius Peppers was a beast in this league when we first switched over to IDP. He would usually block a few kicks each season when he played for Carolina, not to mention rack up QB sacks and forced fumbles.

I've gotten used to IDP but it took me awhile to get into it.

why would a blocked kick or int be worth more than a TD?

Another good strategy is to always have an IDP on monday night. They never lay a complete egg.

Most tards on here can't even master the offensive side of fantasy, much less the defense

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is the key just plugging in a LB from a shitty offense team and just getting bread and butter tackles?

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Not necessarily. Depends on the settings - which is actually where I'm interested in seeing what others do.

We used to have tackles as two points or 1.5, but this past year we made the settings:

tackle - 1
assist - 0.5
TFL - 2.5
pass defensed - 1.5
sack - 3
interception- 5
forced fumble - 3
fumble recovery - 2
def TD - 6
safety - 2
blocked kick - 3


The basis behind our scoring system is to reward for impact plays. You get big points for a sack, a pick, and even a TFL - so the guys who make meaningful plays (J.J. Watt tackling everyone in the backfield) score big points over a linebacker who had 10 tackles - One friend has even suggested making tackles .5 or even 0 points to further that gap.

We also upped deflected passes to give corners who make a good play on the ball some love, to make coverage corners more meaningful (the Revis's and other cover corners are basically anti-fantasy football).

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we used to do it but quit because it was random as frick only playing 1 IDP player (I didn't make the settings). I really think you need to can the team defense and play like 3-4 or at least one from every position (line, lb, secondary) and have it somewhat uniform.

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We start 5 IDPs of any position. We used to have 2 lb, 2 de, 2 dt...but the d lineman especially are too "random." but if you wait and miss out on some of the breakthrough players like J.J. Watt, a team could have a serious advantage over you (dude who had him in our league won...and J.J. Watt scored as well as his RBs from week to week.)

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why would a blocked kick or int be worth more than a TD?

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We used to do this at first as well, the scoring was based on frequency. There are far fewer safeties and blocked kicks, so when a player gets one, he should be rewarded. Usually, those are big moments in games so they should have some fantasy pull. But we eventually went down.