The Man With No Name
Footballguy
This will be my 11th season doing IDP's. What about you.
Hmmm. Was supposed to be a poll.
Hmmm. Was supposed to be a poll.
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How many years have you done IDP's ? (1 Viewer)
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Chaos Commish
Footballguy
This is the 11th season. My first IDP league was a kick. We had punters too.
slickwillie
Footballguy
5th year, and its the only format i will play now
E-A-G-L-E-S
Footballguy
My first fantasy league started 12 years ago and has always been IDP
We've come a long way since checking USA today Monday moring for tackle stats
We've come a long way since checking USA today Monday moring for tackle stats
USA TodayI used to hate wasting money on Tuesday's edition only to find out that the stats for the Monday nighter didn't make it in that day and having to buy Wednesday's also.
Although, the Wed AFC stats and Thur NFC stats were pretty cool back then...
Rozelle
Moderator
22 years
I remember the excitement of Monday mornings checking the USA Today for your IDP results. You generally had somewhat of an idea what your offensive guys did, from highlights and such, but unless your IDP’s played on TV, you really had no clue. Man … it was so time consuming converting stats to points and figuring scores. Remember how hard it was to find any info on defense, let alone IDP. You couldn’t even find tackle numbers. I was so ate up … I would save all my USA Today’s and at seasons end figure tackles for nearly all the NFL players for next years draft. (my first league was a deep keeper, difficult to protect many IDP though). Back then, if you did your homework, you could really have a huge edge over the competition .. I miss that.
Having a place where you can go and talk IDP is awsome, and I don't know if there is a better place than this board. I do know this … there isn’t hardly a day go by that I can’t come here and learn something.
I remember the excitement of Monday mornings checking the USA Today for your IDP results. You generally had somewhat of an idea what your offensive guys did, from highlights and such, but unless your IDP’s played on TV, you really had no clue. Man … it was so time consuming converting stats to points and figuring scores. Remember how hard it was to find any info on defense, let alone IDP. You couldn’t even find tackle numbers. I was so ate up … I would save all my USA Today’s and at seasons end figure tackles for nearly all the NFL players for next years draft. (my first league was a deep keeper, difficult to protect many IDP though). Back then, if you did your homework, you could really have a huge edge over the competition .. I miss that.
Having a place where you can go and talk IDP is awsome, and I don't know if there is a better place than this board. I do know this … there isn’t hardly a day go by that I can’t come here and learn something.
houndirish
Footballguy
Wow ... this is quite humbling! I thought I'd been at IDP for a while but in comparison I'm a newbie! This will be my 10th year. The first league I ever played in was IDP. It wasn't until I had 3 years of FF experience before I played in a league with the more common team defense format.
IDP is the only way to go.
IDP is the only way to go.
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Chaos Commish
Footballguy
I'm amazed by some of the responses too. 20 years ago I started my first league with some college buddies. I thought the hobby was very fresh then, and we were a TD Only league. That league fell apart in three years, and I joined a different one with a mix of more old friends and some of our respective work mates. That league was full performance scoring and we trumped USA Today by two years on the idea (remembering their old contest). I thought we were cutting edge. In 95 I was invited into an IDP league on ESPN's NFL chat. I joined, loved it, sold it to the guys in the older league, and we've been going strong ever since. The commish of the original IDP league had used them for five years (so he started 16 years ago) and I thought he was an innovator. Anyway, I'd love to hear stories from some of the real old IDP dogs about players and leagues from back in the day. My second year of IDP, II went into week 16. Elway faced the niners in the championship, and I had Merton Hanks. It was MNF and I was way behind. I predicted a Hanks pick return for a TD before the game. I needed that, 4 tackles and a sack by Stubblefield to win. Hanks pulled it off and I was doing his bobble head dance in my family room. I had the tackles and just needed four more or that sack. Late in the 4th Stubblefield got a sack. I went crazy. It was called back on a penalty. I lost.
Great stuff though. I love me some IDP.fourth year...
but i had good teacher in fbg IDP staffer dave baker (we share couple teams in cover two & game breakers)...
he accelerated my learning curve by 3-5 years...
than norton did the same...
those two imparted a lot of knowledge, so in accelerated learning curve FBG matrix "bullet time"...
10-14 years!
but i had good teacher in fbg IDP staffer dave baker (we share couple teams in cover two & game breakers)...
he accelerated my learning curve by 3-5 years...
than norton did the same...
those two imparted a lot of knowledge, so in accelerated learning curve FBG matrix "bullet time"...
10-14 years!
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
fourth year...but i had good teachers... , so in accelerated learning curve FBG matrix "bullet time"...10-14 years!
I don't think time served implies expertise. My league has 9 of us active for the last 11 years, and 6 of them don't do due diligence on IDPs. I wouldn't call any of them guppies, and they're certainly following preseason and depth charts and forming educated opinions, but IDP is best exploited by true junkies giving that little extra bit of time to the addiction. I first year IDPer closely following the information FBG provides would be better informed than over half my 11 year old league.DOVCommish
Footballguy
Heading into year 14 of IDP (and we still use punters)
Rozelle
Moderator
How do the punters score? Punts inside 20 and yardage?
houndirish
Footballguy
I had a buddy whose league used punters. It was kinda neat how they scored them. I don't remember the specific point values but essentially the punter lost points for each kick, but gained points based on the yardage. I don't believe net yardage was used so punters weren't penalized by the strength/weakness of their coverage units. Punts inside the 20 may have also garnered bonus points. However since you lost points for every punt attempt, if you had a crappy punter that shanked a few 30 yarders it was very feasible to get negative points for the position!
WisWolvrns
Footballguy
18 years with 11 IDP's starting each week
WisWolvrns
Footballguy
LOL
Brings back some old memories! Scoring was a chore though. I originally started with a flat file Unix database since it was easier to score whole team box scores then do it by individual players. That migrated to MS Access for a number of years and now we use MFL. Ah the memories... and youth to have more time to numbers crunch...
Rozelle-Awesome. I am commish in our keeper league we started 18 years ago and had the exact same experience with the paper on Monday morning. I used to have a tough time sleeping on Sunday night, would get up early and tally scores while eating breakfast. The other league officer and I would do manual scoring during MNF and photocopy and mail results!!! Talk about old school. I love having software to do the work and live results.
Biabreakable
Footballguy
Hmm
Started off with IDP in 1990 I think but other league members hated it (they got smoked) so IDP got ##### canned. It was a couple years after that I think we got the guys to play Dynasty instead of redraft. Added IDP to that the following year. Guys got hammered with the same players a few years then most gave up.
Didnt play FF for a few years then and came back to it with the online leagues. Now in a 4 year old dynasty IDP again.
Stats for defensive players have improved over time I have noticed. They were hard to find and inconsistent when comparing publications as well when we had to go by news papers. Pre-windows nfl front page (I think it was called?) was a roster management game used to enjoy playing that had ratings based off of statistics that I gleaned quite a bit of information from. I have not seen that in years now though.
Started off with IDP in 1990 I think but other league members hated it (they got smoked) so IDP got ##### canned. It was a couple years after that I think we got the guys to play Dynasty instead of redraft. Added IDP to that the following year. Guys got hammered with the same players a few years then most gave up.
Didnt play FF for a few years then and came back to it with the online leagues. Now in a 4 year old dynasty IDP again.
Stats for defensive players have improved over time I have noticed. They were hard to find and inconsistent when comparing publications as well when we had to go by news papers. Pre-windows nfl front page (I think it was called?) was a roster management game used to enjoy playing that had ratings based off of statistics that I gleaned quite a bit of information from. I have not seen that in years now though.
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
Our punter scoring was fun. Punts netting 50+ yards scored a point. Punts inside the 20 scored 1 point, inside the 10 2 points, inside the 5 3 points. The punter with the better net average for the game got a .5 bonus (intended to break all ties and it came into play several times over three years). Tom Tupa was gold.
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
No bag necessary. I think all us who love IDP redrafts owe a debt of gratitude to good old Sandbox.My first league was IDP on sandbox.com7 years ago. It was actually a couple of years before I played team defense.
Played my first IDP league in '92.
When I started I would get the USA Today (both Monday and Tuesday), and use graph paper to track player production over the course of the season. I'm sure many of you can remember scoring leagues by hand...
Thank God for computers. If we were still doing it on paper I could never play in 9 leagues
When I started I would get the USA Today (both Monday and Tuesday), and use graph paper to track player production over the course of the season. I'm sure many of you can remember scoring leagues by hand...
Thank God for computers. If we were still doing it on paper I could never play in 9 leagues
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ffchamp1
Footballguy
12 yrs3/4 or 4/3 2 S2 CB1 P1 K1 RETLove itThis will be my 11th season doing IDP's. What about you.Hmmm. Was supposed to be a poll.
ffchamp1
Footballguy
Paper, ahh the monday morning run for the USA today.Remember when their were holidays on Mondays and they would not publish, it used to drive me insane.TomPlayed my first IDP league in '92. When I started I would get the USA Today (both Monday and Tuesday), and use graph paper to track player production over the course of the season. I'm sure many of you can remember scoring leagues by hand...
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
In Southern California there were two editions of USA Today released on Mondays. Sometimes one would have about half the NFL stats, early games only. Man, that drove me crazy a few times when stores didn't receive the later edition. The MNF numbers wouldn't come out until Wednesdays. I picked up the paper in a 7-11 in my neighborhood. Tuesday - Friday editions would sit on the rack all day. Monday editions sold out by noon.Paper, ahh the monday morning run for the USA today.Remember when their were holidays on Mondays and they would not publish, it used to drive me insane.TomPlayed my first IDP league in '92. When I started I would get the USA Today (both Monday and Tuesday), and use graph paper to track player production over the course of the season. I'm sure many of you can remember scoring leagues by hand...
What a hoot to reflect back on the USA stats! My favorite recollection is my bud Murph religiously doing the stats during our high school English class...... no wonder he never read a book in school.
We have a total roster of 30 and start 6 defensive players (2 each).
What does everyone else do?
We have a total roster of 30 and start 6 defensive players (2 each).
What does everyone else do?
coolnerd
Footballguy
I actually cut my teeth on the Sandox and Fanballs of the fantaasy world and world recommend doing so to any newbie as a better alternative to blind Nfl.com or yahoo leagues.No bag necessary. I think all us who love IDP redrafts owe a debt of gratitude to good old Sandbox.My first league was IDP on sandbox.com
Rozelle
Moderator
I can relate. Another fellow and I did the same thing on Monday nites. You prolly also knew the USA stands where you could get the paper the earliest too ...huh.
45 man rosters, protect 10 each year.Offense (PPR) can choose between Basic (2R/2W/1T), Wishbone (3R/1W/1T), Run & Shoot (1R/4W), Single Setback (1R/3W/1T) or Double TE (2R/1W/2T) formations (plus K and KR, totaling 8 OFF starters).Defense also starts 8 players (DL/LB/DB) with a minimum of at least 1 at a position and maximum of 5.
