What is an 'IDP' league?
An IDP league is a league that uses Individual Defensive Players. That means instead of just drafting quarterbacks, running backs, kickers or tight-ends in a team, instead of drafting a team defense, you draft individual players. You can draft a line-backer like Ray Lewis and you can draft defensive ends like Jason Taylor or Richard Seymour. You are also going to draft safeties like Ed Reed, it doesn't really matter. Basically you are going to have to know, instead of offensive players, you are going to know defensive players. A lot of people are not ready for IDP leagues as it's a lot tougher. Within the most popular sort of IDP leagues, you usually always start with two to three linebackers, two or three defensive ends and two or three defensive backs. The linebackers are the breadwinners in defensive leagues, they are kind of like the running backs. They are not worth as much as running backs, but they're worth the most of all the defensive players, and that's because they are very consistent. They get tackles every week. From year to year and from week to week, they get more predictable on their score of points. I would say the safeties are the next most valuable. When you're taking a defensive back, don't take a quarterback, take a really good safety, like Rodney Harrison, when he was in his prime. Adrian Wilson is the guy from Colonels who's very good, he did a lot of tackles every week. And then the third most valuable, I would say, are the defensive ends, because they're very unpredictable. One week theyll have a sack and they'll help you out, the next week they won't really do much for you. So I would say they're the least valuable in Individual Defensive Player fantasy football leagues.
