Week 1 IDP Fantasy Football Rankings

It’s officially that time for you to set your lineups for Week 1 of the 2021 football season. We are done with drafts and big picture thinking, and we are now forced to dive into the weeds of weekly contests. That means we must look more closely at individual matchups on a weekly basis, knowing […]

IDP Leagues - Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 1

Hope springs eternal at the beginning of each fantasy football season. Regardless of what injuries, failures, and misguided trades might lie ahead, Week 1 is a time when everyone can dream of placing a plastic football trophy that cost $5.95 atop their mantle next to their war medals, photos of their kids, and grandma's ashes. […]

Updated Fantasy Football IDP Rankings - Risers and Fallers

We are less than one week away from the beginning of the 2021 NFL season, and that means it’s time for us to put together our final preseason IDP Positional Rankings. Injuries have been suffered, cuts made, trades executed, and depth charts announced. Now, we have tons of information about everyone we care about and […]

2021 IDP Rankings - Top 130 Defensive Players for Fantasy Football

Welcome back RotoBallers! Below you will find our staff's updated 2021 fantasy football rankings (top 130) for IDP formats. For those of you who are not familiar with fantasy football IDP leagues, these are formats where individual defensive players (IDP) are drafted by fantasy managers and accrue points for defensive stats like tackles, sacks, interceptions, etc. Our […]

IDP Rookies to Watch in 2021 (Defensive Back)

We continue evaluating the top rookie IDP targets for 2021 with the secondary. Read up on the top rookie linebacker targets right here. At RotoBaller, we aim to give IDP owners detailed fantasy football IDP league coverage all season long, starting with our IDP Top 120 consensus preseason rankings. Seasoned IDP vets know the top names already […]

IDP Positional Rankings for 2021 (Pre-Training Camp)

NFL Free Agency and the Draft are both done, and teams are finishing up OTAs now. That means we are entering the dull part of summer where there’s not much going on in the world of football, which gives all of us a lot of dead air we need to fill with arguments and conjecture. […]

IDP Stock Report: Post NFL Draft

If you’re like me, one of your favorite times of the year is the NFL Draft. It’s that magical moment where you can pretend your team is just a few picks away from greatness, even if they are the Jets or Lions! It’s a fantastical season when real football can somehow feel like fantasy football. […]

IDP Free Agent Moves - Fantasy Risers and Fallers

We are now three days into the start of the real offseason and many moves have already been made. The Patriots have gone on a spending spree, the Jets made several significant moves, and Oprah interviewed… wait, that's for a different blog. Anyways, the point is that a lot has changed in just three days […]

Week 17 IDP Rankings

As many of us have already discussed, Week 17 is an odd time for fantasy football. With at least one or two NFL teams looking to rest multiple starters the final week of the season every year, a lot of fantasy leagues end their season in Week 16 as a way of avoiding that fantasy […]

Week 17 IDP Waivers and Teams to Worry About

A vast majority of you are done with your fantasy season, thanks to the overwhelming number of leagues that end their playoffs in Week 16. Considering the specialized nature of the IDP format, the odds are that most IDP setups are done by now. That said, not all fantasy teams are finished, and not all […]

Week 16 IDP Rankings & Your Christmas Gift From Uncle Chris!

Given that it is Christmas time and the big day is just off the horizon, I feel I have to offer my readers a gift… but given how infinitely cheap I am and how little I actually want to give you a gift, my present to you will have to be free of cost or […]

IDP Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16 - Championship Additions

We were initially set to make this Week 16 IDP Waiver Wire column all about additions for the future. However, I received several DMs over the past two days requesting that we target our waiver column towards their final week championship push. After all, Week 16 is the final week for many custom fantasy leagues, […]

Week 15 IDP Rankings, Streamers, and Notes

If you’re reading this, odds are you made your fantasy playoffs. So congrats! The odds are also good that you may have seen our IDP Waiver column this week, too. So you have a good idea of players who have a good and bad fantasy schedule ahead of them for your playoffs. Assuming that all […]

Week 15 IDP Waivers: Preparing for the Playoffs!

It's safe to say that everyone's fantasy playoffs have started by now. That means a majority of you are out of it, while approximately 40% of you still have life left. That sort of dichotomy demands that we alter our attack on the IDP waivers a little bit. Because it's playoff time, and because your […]

Week 14 IDP Rankings & A Thought on Tanking at Christmas

It is crunch time now, as the fantasy playoffs and Christmas season are both finally here. And just like Christmas, the fantasy playoffs are a time of merriment and joy. It's a time to rejoice and have cheer! It's a time to screen print your face on t-shirts that say "Winner," and give them to […]

Top IDP Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

While last week was the beginning of the fantasy playoffs for many of you, we are finally entering the week where pretty much everyone has started their tournament to the title. The bye weeks are now done, and you should have a full selection of defenders available to you in your push for glory. Your […]

Week 13 IDP Rankings, Streamers, and Fades

It is fantasy playoff time for many of you, and for others, it's the last week you have to make that playoff push. It isn't just a fantasy focused time, though. Many of you have tons of stuff going on that impairs your ability to focus just on football. Some of you are struggling with […]

IDP Waiver Wire Adds and IDP Cut List for Week 13

It is now Week 13, and that means many of you are entering the magical season we call “the fantasy playoffs.” If you and your league mates fear the dreaded curse of the 'Week 17 Sit Fest' and you prefer each playoff round being two weeks to prevent flukes, then you have to start things […]

Week 12 IDP Rankings & Pre-Season DL Sleepers Review

Welcome back RotoBallers, to my weekly article about fantasy football IDP rankings. For those who are not familiar, every week I provide you with my IDP rankings and analysis broken down by position, along with some potential streamers. We are now onto our second week of the pre-season IDP review. We already addressed our pre-season […]

IDP Waiver Wire for Week 12 and Preseason LB Sleepers Review

Welcome back RotoBallers to another week of my IDP waiver wire recommendations for fantasy football leagues and Week 12 of the NFL season! For those who are not familiar, every week I provide you with my IDP waiver wire pickups and analysis, to try and help bolster your fantasy football rosters for the weeks ahead. […]

Week 11 IDP Ranks, Streamers & Preseason DB Sleepers Review

Earlier this week in our IDP Waivers column, we laid out plan to go back over our IDP preseason predictions with a fine-tooth comb over the next few weeks. The hope here is to help our readers determine what preseason darlings are still worthwhile and which ones you can safely dump. These look-backs will be […]

IDP Waiver Wire for Week 11 and Updated Rookie Rankings

Time is a construct… whatever that means. But if constructs move fast, then time is definitely one of those! I say this because we are already over halfway done with the 2020 NFL season, and it doesn’t see real. After months and months of worrying about whether this season would even happen, we have been […]

Week 10 IDP Ranks, Streamers & IDP Trade Calls

Welcome back RotoBallers, to my weekly article about fantasy football IDP rankings. For those who are not familiar, every week I provide you with my IDP rankings and analysis broken down by position, along with some potential streamers. Earlier this week, we addressed several of your general IDP questions. We also promised to get to […]

Top IDP Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 10 and Mailbag Answers

We are already on Week 10 of this crazy NFL season, and you know what that means! That's right. We are out of original ideas for our intros already! That's why we took a moment in our last column to ask you, our readers, for questions and problems with which you needed help. You guys […]

Week 9 IDP Ranks, Streamers, & NFL Trade Analysis

Welcome back RotoBallers to another week of my IDP rankings and analysis for fantasy football leagues! The NFL's trade deadline is done, and conveniently for us, there were more relevant defenders on the move than offensive players. Such defensive activity gives us a prime opportunity to analyze these trades, and how they impact our quaint […]

Top IDP Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 9 and Trade Questions

Knowing how difficult it can be to evaluate the value of defenders in trades, I have decided to offer our readers the opportunity to ask me any IDP related trade questions you may have. These questions may or may not be included in our future IDP Trade Advice columns. If you want to have your […]

Week 8 IDP Ranks, Streamers, & Thoughts on Trade Ethics

It’s nearing the NFL’s trade deadline for 2020, and already we have seen two noteworthy trades take place on the defensive side of the ball. One of those deals involved Yannick Ngakoue to the Ravens, and the other was Everson Griffen to the Lions. Both of these trades have some IDP impact, but their real-life […]

Top IDP Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

A few weeks ago, we put out my hugely popular column, ‘Berating You Softly.’ That column was so popular that several hundred-thousand readers sent me Thank-You letters for my inspirational writing, while a number of you emailed me your heartwarming videos about how I turned your lives around. Heck, I am currently engaged in some […]

Week 7 IDP Rankings, Streamers, and Notes

The big IDP news of the week happened just this Thursday morning, as our rankings were being finalized. It was pretty big news, too. Yannick Ngakoue was traded to the Baltimore Ravens! Let’s discuss just how big this news is, and whether it’s good or bad for his short and long term fantasy prospects, shall […]

Top IDP Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

Pickings can always be slim in deep IDP leagues, but this year it is looking thinner than usual in even the shallowest of setups. In fact, going shopping for IDP players in 2020 can often feel like you’re going to the grocery store for filet mignon, only to bring home a roll of toilet paper […]