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More advanced leagues, with intense commissioners and coaches who want a bigger scouting challenge, offer individual defensive player (IDP) scoring options. In an IDP league, each fantasy coach drafts individual defensive players and uses individual scoring, much like individual offensive scoring. (Because you’re probably a beginning fantasy player, I suggest you first focus on team DEF leagues. That’s why most of this book focuses on team DEF. However, if you do want a little bit on IDP leagues, this section gives a quick overview on scoring.)

IDP leagues break down the defensive players by three positions:

 Linebackers

 Defensive linemen

 Defensive backs

Your league’s commissioner sets how many players at each position you must draft. Each position can score fantasy points in any of the following stat categories, depending on your league’s default settings. Here’s a sample of some of them (not from a Yahoo! league):

 Sack: 2 points

 Tackle: 2 points

 Assist: 1 point

 Interception: 3 points

 Pass defended: 1 point

 Fumble recovery: 2 points

 Forced fumble: 3 points

 Touchdown: 6 points

 Safety: 3 points

 Blocked kick: 2 points

 Kick/punt return touchdowns: 6 points

The roster requirements and scoring variables are different in every IDP league. In general, stats such as tackles and forced fumbles make each defensive player almost as important as the offensive players on your roster. Of course, TDs still rule in most leagues, and your draft should still focus on the play-making RBs, QBs, and WRs. But after you’ve acquired your offensive stars in the first five to ten rounds, you can start to look at drafting dominant All-Pro defensemen. (For more info on pre-ranking IDP leagues, read Chapter 7.)

Note that a good IDPs stat ceiling is typically way below that of a good offensive skill player.