Does your league count passes deflected? (1 Viewer)

[Darko M]

We haven't counted passes deflected in our 12 team, PPR/IDP league. I've read about it a couple times.. can someone tell me if most IDP leagues count passes deflected? How does it affect the league drafting? I assume it makes certain cornerbacks more valuable?

 

[Larry Thomas]

We’ve used them for many years. It helps cornerbacks and cover safeties, but also LBs who are good in coverage, makes your sub package (nickel/dime) personnel a little more valuable. Last year Leon Hall and Cory Webster led the league with 27. In ’07 Antonio Cromartie had a league high 28.

In both years 17 of the top 20 were CBs. In 2007 LBs Brian Urlacher and Oakland’s Thomas Howard were just outside the top 20 with 17. Generally your top 40 will all be DBs.

The NFL average per team for PDs are…

2008

OVERALL / 65.6

DBs / 54.3

LBs / 8.9

DL / 2.4

2007

OVERALL / 70.2

DBs / 54.1

LBs / 13.0

DL / 3.1

stat source – NFL.com

 

[Jene Bramel]

Using PDs has pretty much become standard in the IDP world. There were wide variations in how the stadium stat crews awarded the stat in its earlier years, but the NFL has better standardized how the crews award PDs in the past two seasons. As unofficial defensive stats go, it's now pretty solid.

As Larry said, corners with ball skills or safeties/linebackers that put them around the ball often in coverage get small bumps in value, depending on how much your system values PDs. If you weight a PD as much as a solo tackle, quite a few corners often move up into your top 25 in the year end rankings.

 

[bcr8f]

Using PDs has pretty much become standard in the IDP world. There were wide variations in how the stadium stat crews awarded the stat in its earlier years, but the NFL has better standardized how the crews award PDs in the past two seasons. As unofficial defensive stats go, it's now pretty solid.

As Larry said, corners with ball skills or safeties/linebackers that put them around the ball often in coverage get small bumps in value, depending on how much your system values PDs. If you weight a PD as much as a solo tackle, quite a few corners often move up into your top 25 in the year end rankings.

I'm in one 2 CB, 1 S required league and we give 1.8 per solo tackle and 2 points per PD.There it does matter.

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