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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.

59,579 leagues found · 10,001 have IDP · Last updated 2026-06-07

IDP Leagues Found

10,001

of 59,579 (16.8%)

Median IDP Starters

7

slots per league

Most Common Setup

8 IDP

mode value

Have IDP_FLEX

87.4%

of IDP leagues

Dynasty Leagues

87.7%

of IDP leagues

SuperFlex + IDP

68.5%

of IDP leagues

IDP Starter Slots

Distribution of IDP starter slot counts across leagues

1
612 (6.1%)
2
577 (5.8%)
3
845 (8.4%)
4
888 (8.9%)
5
767 (7.7%)
6
773 (7.7%)
7
974 (9.7%)
8
1305 (13%)
9
660 (6.6%)
10
562 (5.6%)
11
1090 (10.9%)
12
490 (4.9%)
13+
458 (4.2%)

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
Sack6(49.3%)6
Interception6(58.8%)6
Forced Fumble3(62.1%)3
Fumble Recovery3(65.6%)3
Safety3(56.1%)3
Defensive TD6(89%)6
Blocked Kick3(66.1%)3
Tackle for Loss2(67.2%)2
Solo Tackle2(56.5%)2
Assisted Tackle1(57.6%)1
QB Hit1(67.3%)1
Pass Defended3(58.5%)3
Total Tackle0(40.5%)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
1037 (10.4%)
DB:2 DL:2 IDP_FLEX:1 LB:2
749 (7.5%)
DB:1 DL:1 IDP_FLEX:1 LB:1
663 (6.6%)
IDP_FLEX:1
569 (5.7%)
IDP_FLEX:2
549 (5.5%)
DB:3 DL:3 IDP_FLEX:2 LB:3
495 (4.9%)
DB:1 DL:1 LB:1
447 (4.5%)
IDP_FLEX:3
371 (3.7%)
DB:1 DL:1 IDP_FLEX:2 LB:1
356 (3.6%)
DB:3 DL:3 IDP_FLEX:3 LB:3
343 (3.4%)
DB:2 DL:2 IDP_FLEX:3 LB:2
334 (3.3%)
IDP_FLEX:5
327 (3.3%)
DB:2 DL:2 LB:2
295 (2.9%)
IDP_FLEX:6
202 (2%)
IDP_FLEX:4
175 (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 12.2 IDP · med 8

424 leagues

6-team

avg 8 IDP · med 7

258 leagues

8-team

avg 7.7 IDP · med 7

703 leagues

10-team

avg 6.1 IDP · med 6

2310 leagues

12-team

avg 7 IDP · med 7

3872 leagues

13-team

avg 7 IDP · med 7

1 leagues

14-team

avg 7.6 IDP · med 8

576 leagues

16-team

avg 8 IDP · med 8

726 leagues

17-team

avg 3.8 IDP · med 4

5 leagues

18-team

avg 5.8 IDP · med 6

88 leagues

19-team

avg 3.5 IDP · med 3.5

2 leagues

20-team

avg 7.4 IDP · med 7

115 leagues

22-team

avg 6.6 IDP · med 6

11 leagues

24-team

avg 7.1 IDP · med 7

74 leagues

28-team

avg 4 IDP · med 4

1 leagues

32-team

avg 7.4 IDP · med 7

835 leagues

Dynasty IDP

Leagues
8772
Avg IDP starters
7.3
Have IDP_FLEX
87.8%

Redraft IDP

Leagues
1229
Avg IDP starters
6.3
Have IDP_FLEX
84.5%

SuperFlex Correlation

SF leagues
6853 (avg 7.3 IDP)
Non-SF leagues
3148 (avg 7 IDP)

TEP Correlation

TEP leagues
5696 (avg 7.4 IDP)
Non-TEP leagues
4305 (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 2026-06-07.