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IDP League Trends on Sleeper

How do IDP leagues actually configure their rosters and scoring? We crawled the Sleeper ecosystem starting from our synced leagues, following league members to discover their other leagues via BFS traversal.

19,269 leagues found · 4,066 have IDP · Last updated 2026-08-02

IDP Leagues Found

4,066

of 19,269 (21.1%)

Median IDP Starters

8

slots per league

Most Common Setup

8 IDP

mode value

Have IDP_FLEX

90.1%

of IDP leagues

Dynasty Leagues

88.6%

of IDP leagues

SuperFlex + IDP

73.6%

of IDP leagues

IDP Starter Slots

Distribution of IDP starter slot counts across leagues

1
195 (4.8%)
2
148 (3.6%)
3
270 (6.6%)
4
332 (8.2%)
5
320 (7.9%)
6
353 (8.7%)
7
360 (8.9%)
8
551 (13.6%)
9
275 (6.8%)
10
219 (5.4%)
11
527 (13%)
12
284 (7%)
13+
232 (5.3%)

Wild outliers from the dataset

  • One 4-team league runs 72 IDP starter slots. Seventy-two.
  • One family of leagues averages 52 IDP slots across 5 linked leagues. Respect the commitment.
  • A 4-team league starts 184 offensive + 30 IDP players per roster. The entire NFL is spoken for.

IDP Scoring Settings

How leagues score defensive stats — range and most common values

StatMost CommonMedian
Solo Tackle2(63.5%)2
Assisted Tackle1(64.3%)1
Sack6(56.3%)6
Interception6(64.9%)6
Forced Fumble3(66.5%)3
Fumble Recovery3(71.5%)3
Pass Defended3(64.6%)3
Safety3(60.4%)3
Defensive TD6(89.4%)6
Blocked Kick3(70.2%)3
Tackle for Loss2(70.8%)2
QB Hit1(69.6%)1
Total Tackle0(40%)0.5

Wild outliers from the dataset

  • One 12-team league scores sacks at 358,368 points each.
  • A 32-team league scores interceptions at -83 points. Defensive players are punished for doing their job.
  • The 4-team league with 184 offensive starters also has 7 scoring stats maxed at 99,999 — solo tackles, total tackles, sacks, interceptions, forced fumbles, pass deflections, and QB hits.

Most Popular IDP Roster Configs

Top configurations by frequency

DB:2 DL:2 IDP_FLEX:2 LB:2
469 (11.5%)
DB:2 DL:2 IDP_FLEX:1 LB:2
267 (6.6%)
DB:3 DL:3 IDP_FLEX:2 LB:3
254 (6.2%)
DB:1 DL:1 IDP_FLEX:1 LB:1
241 (5.9%)
DB:3 DL:3 IDP_FLEX:3 LB:3
224 (5.5%)
IDP_FLEX:1
179 (4.4%)
DB:1 DL:1 IDP_FLEX:2 LB:1
162 (4%)
DB:2 DL:2 IDP_FLEX:3 LB:2
155 (3.8%)
IDP_FLEX:6
144 (3.5%)
DB:1 DL:1 LB:1
143 (3.5%)
IDP_FLEX:2
136 (3.3%)
IDP_FLEX:5
123 (3%)
IDP_FLEX:3
118 (2.9%)
DB:1 DL:1 IDP_FLEX:3 LB:1
87 (2.1%)
DB:2 DL:2 LB:2
85 (2.1%)

Wild outliers from the dataset

  • One 16-team league has 307 bench slots per team. That's 4,912 rostered players across the league — roughly the entire NFL and half of the CFL.

Cross-tabulations

By League Size

4-team

avg 10 IDP · med 8

129 leagues

6-team

avg 10 IDP · med 8

88 leagues

8-team

avg 9.7 IDP · med 8

259 leagues

10-team

avg 6.6 IDP · med 7

810 leagues

12-team

avg 7.4 IDP · med 8

1505 leagues

13-team

avg 3 IDP · med 3

1 leagues

14-team

avg 8.2 IDP · med 9

235 leagues

16-team

avg 8.7 IDP · med 9

345 leagues

18-team

avg 6.4 IDP · med 6

35 leagues

19-team

avg 6 IDP · med 6

1 leagues

20-team

avg 6.6 IDP · med 6

52 leagues

22-team

avg 9.3 IDP · med 6

9 leagues

24-team

avg 7.2 IDP · med 7

51 leagues

28-team

avg 4 IDP · med 4

1 leagues

32-team

avg 7.5 IDP · med 7

545 leagues

Dynasty IDP

Leagues
3604
Avg IDP starters
7.8
Have IDP_FLEX
90.7%

Redraft IDP

Leagues
462
Avg IDP starters
6.8
Have IDP_FLEX
85.7%

SuperFlex Correlation

SF leagues
2991 (avg 7.7 IDP)
Non-SF leagues
1075 (avg 7.8 IDP)

TEP Correlation

TEP leagues
2620 (avg 8.1 IDP)
Non-TEP leagues
1446 (avg 6.9 IDP)

Data collected via BFS crawl of the Sleeper public API. Only league configuration data is collected — no personal information, rosters, or player data. Last updated 2026-08-02.