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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.

67,333 leagues found · 10,121 have IDP · Last updated 2026-05-02

IDP Leagues Found

10,121

of 67,333 (15%)

Median IDP Starters

7

slots per league

Most Common Setup

8 IDP

mode value

Have IDP_FLEX

87.1%

of IDP leagues

Dynasty Leagues

87.1%

of IDP leagues

SuperFlex + IDP

69.7%

of IDP leagues

IDP Starter Slots

Distribution of IDP starter slot counts across leagues

1
678 (6.7%)
2
618 (6.1%)
3
925 (9.1%)
4
936 (9.2%)
5
924 (9.1%)
6
830 (8.2%)
7
930 (9.2%)
8
1256 (12.4%)
9
669 (6.6%)
10
535 (5.3%)
11
1029 (10.2%)
12
456 (4.5%)
13+
335 (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(55.2%)2
Assisted Tackle1(56.3%)1
Sack6(47.9%)6
Interception6(57.5%)6
Forced Fumble3(61.3%)3
Fumble Recovery3(64.2%)3
Safety3(55.1%)3
Defensive TD6(89.2%)6
Blocked Kick3(65.6%)3
Tackle for Loss2(65.9%)2
QB Hit1(66.5%)1
Pass Defended3(57.4%)3
Total Tackle0(41.8%)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
996 (9.8%)
DB:1 DL:1 IDP_FLEX:1 LB:1
714 (7.1%)
DB:2 DL:2 IDP_FLEX:1 LB:2
701 (6.9%)
IDP_FLEX:1
620 (6.1%)
IDP_FLEX:2
577 (5.7%)
DB:1 DL:1 LB:1
491 (4.9%)
IDP_FLEX:5
489 (4.8%)
DB:3 DL:3 IDP_FLEX:2 LB:3
473 (4.7%)
IDP_FLEX:3
401 (4%)
DB:2 DL:2 IDP_FLEX:3 LB:2
345 (3.4%)
DB:1 DL:1 IDP_FLEX:2 LB:1
340 (3.4%)
DB:3 DL:3 IDP_FLEX:3 LB:3
327 (3.2%)
DB:2 DL:2 LB:2
313 (3.1%)
IDP_FLEX:6
245 (2.4%)
IDP_FLEX:4
169 (1.7%)

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 8.2 IDP · med 8

325 leagues

6-team

avg 8 IDP · med 7

223 leagues

8-team

avg 7.7 IDP · med 7

654 leagues

10-team

avg 5.8 IDP · med 5

2402 leagues

12-team

avg 6.6 IDP · med 7

4245 leagues

13-team

avg 7 IDP · med 7

1 leagues

14-team

avg 7.4 IDP · med 8

575 leagues

16-team

avg 7.9 IDP · med 8

707 leagues

17-team

avg 1.7 IDP · med 1

3 leagues

18-team

avg 5.9 IDP · med 6

70 leagues

19-team

avg 3 IDP · med 3

1 leagues

20-team

avg 7.3 IDP · med 7

95 leagues

22-team

avg 7.1 IDP · med 6.5

10 leagues

24-team

avg 6.8 IDP · med 7

63 leagues

28-team

avg 4 IDP · med 4

1 leagues

32-team

avg 7.4 IDP · med 7

746 leagues

Dynasty IDP

Leagues
8811
Avg IDP starters
7
Have IDP_FLEX
87.1%

Redraft IDP

Leagues
1310
Avg IDP starters
5.4
Have IDP_FLEX
86.9%

SuperFlex Correlation

SF leagues
7057 (avg 6.8 IDP)
Non-SF leagues
3064 (avg 6.7 IDP)

TEP Correlation

TEP leagues
5866 (avg 7.1 IDP)
Non-TEP leagues
4255 (avg 6.3 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 2026-05-02.