It's Week 13 of the 2011 fantasy football campaign, and this week brings with it the conclusion of the regular season in many leagues, making this a do-or-die game for many an IDP owner across the land. To help you prepare for another week's action here's a look at my Top 30 defensive linemen, linebackers, and defensive backs for Week Eleven of the 2011 season in IDP leagues. These rankings are based on Default IDP Manor Scoring, which awards 1 point for solos, .5 points for assists, 2 points each for fumbles forced and recovered, 4 points for interceptions, sacks, and safeties, 6 points for defensive touchdowns, and 1 point for passes defensed. It's a balanced scoring system, so if your IDP league is especially tackle-heavy or big play-heavy some players may move up (or down) a few spots. DEFENSIVE LINEMEN 1.) Jared Allen - MIN vs DEN 2.) Terrell Suggs - BAL at CLE 3.) Julius Peppers - CHI vs KC 4.) Trent Cole - PHI at SEA 5.) Andre Carter - NE vs IND 6.) Jason Pierre-Paul - NYG vs GB 7.) Justin Smith - SF vs STL 8.) Chris Long - STL at SF 9.) Elvis Dumervil - DEN at MIN 10.) Kyle Vanden Bosch - DET at NO 11.) Jeremy Mincey - JAX vs SD 12.) Haloti Ngata - BAL at CLE 13.) Chris Clemons - SEA vs PHI 14.) Jason Babin - PHI at SEA 15.) Will Smith - NO vs DET 16.) J.J. Watt - HOU vs ATL 17.) Robert Mathis - IND at NE 18.) Greg Hardy - CAR at TB 19.) Calais Campbell - ARI vs DAL 20.) James Hall - STL at SF 21.) Charles Johnson - CAR at TB 22.) Cliff Avril - DET at NO 23.) Ahtyba Rubin - CLE vs BAL 24.) Ray Edwards - ATL at HOU 25.) Darnell Dockett - ARI vs DAL 26.) Justin Tuck - NYG vs GB 27.) Israel Idonije - CHI vs KC 28.) Lamarr Houston - OAK at MIA 29.) Brian Robison - MIN vs DEN 30.) Robert Geathers - CIN at PIT LINEBACKERS 1.) Patrick Willis - SF vs STL 2.) D'Qwell Jackson - CLE vs BAL 3.) Derrick Johnson - KC at CHI 4.) James Laurinaitis - STL at SF 5.) Curtis Lofton - ATL at HOU 6.) Paul Posluszny - JAX vs SD 7.) London Fletcher - WAS vs NYJ 8.) Nick Barnett - BUF vs TEN 9.) Daryl Washington - ARI vs DAL 10.) Chad Greenway - MIN vs DEN 11.) Ray Lewis - BAL at CLE 12.) Navorro Bowman - SF vs STL 13.) Sean Weatherspoon - ATL at HOU 14.) Pat Angerer - IND at NE 15.) Karlos Dansby - MIA vs OAK 16.) Brian Urlacher - CHI vs KC 17.) Sean Lee - DAL at ARI 18.) Brian Cushing - HOU vs ATL 19.) D.J. Williams - DEN at MIN 20.) DeMarcus Ware - DAL at ARI 21.) David Hawthorne - SEA vs PHI 22.) Kevin Burnett - MIA vs OAK 23.) Perry Riley - WAS vs NYJ 24.) James...

undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined IDP CHEATSHEET: Week Twelve It's Week Twelve of the 2011 fantasy football season, which means the bye weeks are in the rearview mirror, there are a trio of games to enjoy on Thanksgiving Day, and the fantasy playoffs are just around the corner. To help you prepare for another week's action here's a look at my Top 30 defensive linemen, linebackers, and defensive backs for Week Eleven of the 2011 season in IDP leagues. These rankings are based on Default IDP Manor Scoring, which awards 1 point for solos, .5 points for assists, 2 points each for fumbles forced and recovered, 4 points for interceptions, sacks, and safeties, 6 points for defensive touchdowns, and 1 point for passes defensed. It's a balanced scoring system, so if your IDP league is especially tackle-heavy or big play-heavy some players may move up (or down) a few spots. Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving everyone! DEFENSIVE LINEMEN 1.) Jared Allen - MIN at ATL 2.) Terrell Suggs - BAL vs SF 3.) Trent Cole - PHI vs NE 4.) Chris Clemons - SEA vs WAS 5.) Julius Peppers - CHI at OAK 6.) Jason Pierre-Paul - NYG at NO 7.) Jeremy Mincey - JAX vs HOU 8.) Andre Carter - NE at PHI 9.) Justin Smith - SF at BAL 10.) Osi Umenyiora - NYG at NO 11.) Chris Long - STL vs ARI 12.) Calais Campbell - ARI at STL 13.) Haloti Ngata - BAL vs SF 14.) Greg Hardy - CAR at IND 15.) Kyle Vanden Bosch - DET vs GB 16.) Charles Johnson -- CAR at IND 17.) Jason Babin - PHI vs NE 18.) Ndamukong Suh - DET vs GB 19.) Will Smith - NO vs NYG 20.) Cliff Avril - DET vs GB 21.) Robert Mathis - IND vs CAR 22.) James Hall - STL vs ARI 23.) Ahtyba Rubin - CLE at CIN 24.) Darnell Dockett - ARI at STL 25.) Ray Edwards - ATL vs MIN 26.) Israel Idonije - CHI at OAK 27.) Justin Tuck - NYG at NO 28.) Michael Bennett - TB at TEN 29.) Desmond Bryant - OAK vs CHI 30.) Brian Robison - MIN at ATL LINEBACKERS 1.) Patrick Willis - SF at BAL 2.) Desmond Bishop - GB at DET 3.) Paul Posluszny - JAX vs HOU 4.) London Fletcher - WAS at SEA 5.) Nick Barnett - BUF at NYJ 6.) Brian Urlacher - CHI at OAK 7.) Derrick Johnson - KC vs PIT 8.) D'Qwell Jackson - CLE at CIN 9.) Navorro Bowman - SF at BAL 10.) David Hawthorne - SEA vs WAS 11.) D.J. Williams - DEN at SD 12.) Curtis Lofton - ATL vs MIN 13.) Pat Angerer - IND vs CAR 14.) Daryl Washington - ARI at STL 15.) Karlos Dansby - MIA at DAL 16.) James Laurinaitis - STL vs ARI 17.) Donald Butler - SD vs DEN 18.) Sean Weatherspoon - ...

It's Week 11 of the 2011 fantasy football season, which means the stretch run has arrived, making every game and lineup choice vitally important as teams jockey for position or try to keep their sinking playoff aspirations afloat. This is also the last of the bye weeks, so don't go starting any players from the Indianapolis Colts, Houston Texans, New Orleans Saints or Pittsburgh Steelers, because that would be bad. To help you prepare for another week's action, here's a look at my Top 30 defensive linemen, linebackers and defensive backs for Week 11 of the 2011 season in IDP leagues. These rankings are based on Default IDP Manor Scoring, which awards 1 point for solos, .5 points for assists, 2 points each for fumbles forced and recovered, 4 points for interceptions, sacks, and safeties, 6 points for defensive touchdowns, and 1 point for passes defensed. It's a balanced scoring system, so if your IDP league is especially tackle-heavy or big play-heavy some players may move up (or down) a few spots. DEFENSIVE LINEMEN 1.) Jared Allen - MIN vs. OAK 2.) Andre Carter - NE vs. KC 3.) Trent Cole - PHI at NYG 4.) Julius Peppers - CHI vs. SD 5.) Terrell Suggs - BAL vs. CIN 6.) Justin Smith - SF vs. ARI 7.) Jason Pierre-Paul - NYG vs. PHI 8.) Chris Clemons - SEA at STL 9.) Chris Long - STL vs. SEA 10.) Jeremy Mincey - JAX at CLE 11.) Justin Tuck - NYG vs. PHI 12.) Cliff Avril - DET vs. CAR 13.) Charles Johnson - CAR at DET 14.) Osi Umenyiora - NYG vs. PHI 15.) Haloti Ngata - BAL vs. CIN 16.) Jason Babin - PHI at NYG 17.) Calais Campbell - ARI at SF 18.) Richard Seymour - OAK at MIN 19.) James Hall - STL vs. SEA 20.) Greg Hardy - CAR at DET 21.) Marcell Dareus - BUF at MIA 22.) Ahtyba Rubin - CLE vs. JAX 23.) Kyle Vanden Bosch- DET vs. CAR 24.) Ndamukong Suh - DET vs. CAR 25.) Israel Idonije - CHI vs. SD 26.) Ray Edwards - ATL vs. TEN 27.) Jabaal Sheard - CLE vs. JAX 28.) Michael Bennett - TB at GB 29.) Darnell Dockett - ARI at SF 30.) Carlos Dunlap - CIN at BAL LINEBACKERS 1.) Desmond Bishop - GB vs. TB 2.) Brian Urlacher - CHI vs. SD 3.) Patrick Willis - SF vs. ARI 4.) D'Qwell Jackson - CLE vs. JAX 5.) Nick Barnett - BUF at MIA 6.) Ray Lewis - BAL vs. CIN 7.) Navorro Bowman - SF vs. ARI 8.) David Hawthorne - SEA at STL 9.) James Laurinaitis - STL vs. SEA 10.) London Fletcher - WAS vs. DAL 11.) Curtis Lofton - ATL vs. TEN 12.) Derrick Johnson - KC at NE 13.) Paul Posluszny - JAX at CLE 14.) Karlos Dansby - MIA...

We're headed into Week Ten of the 2011 fantasy football season, which means we get a bye week from the bye weeks and all 32 teams in the NFL are in action starting Thursday night. That means a deeper talent pool to choose from in IDP leagues, which in turn meant a few more names just missed the cut on this week's Cheatsheet. Good problem to have I suppose. To help you prepare for another week's fantasy action here's a look at my Top 30 defensive linemen, linebackers, and defensive backs for Week Ten of the 2011 season in IDP leagues. These rankings are based on Default IDP Manor Scoring, which awards 1 point for solos, .5 points for assists, 2 points each for fumbles forced and recovered, 4 points for interceptions, sacks, and safeties, 6 points for defensive touchdowns, and 1 point for passes defensed. It's a balanced scoring system, so if your IDP league is especially tackle-heavy or big play-heavy some players may move up (or down) a few spots. DEFENSIVE LINEMEN 1.) Jared Allen - MIN at GB 2.) Terrell Suggs - BAL at SEA 3.) Jason Pierre-Paul - NYG at SF 4.) Trent Cole - PHI vs ARI 5.) Julius Peppers - CHI vs DET 6.) Charles Johnson - CAR vs TEN 7.) Osi Umenyiora - NYG at SF 8.) Justin Smith - SF vs NYG 9.) Ray Edwards - ATL vs NO 10.) Chris Clemons - SEA vs BAL 11.) Cliff Avril - DET at CHI 12.) Jabaal Sheard - CLE vs STL 13.) Jason Babin - PHI vs ARI 14.) Jeremy Mincey - JAX at IND 15.) Justin Tuck - NYG at SF 16.) Haloti Ngata - BAL at SEA 17.) Will Smith - NO at ATL 18.) Ahtyba Rubin - CLE vs STL 19.) Kyle Vanden Bosch - DET at CHI 20.) Chris Long - STL at CLE 21.) Marcell Dareus - BUF at DAL 22.) Robert Mathis - IND vs JAX 23.) Carlos Dunlap - CIN vs PIT 24.) Greg Hardy - CAR vs TEN 25.) Michael Bennett - TB vs HOU 26.) Elvis Dumervil - DEN at KC 27.) Calais Campbell - ARI at PHI 28.) Ndamukong Suh - DET at CHI 29.) James Hall - STL at CLE 30.) Israel Idonije - CHI vs DET LINEBACKERS 1.) Desmond Bishop - GB vs MIN 2.) DQwell Jackson - CLE vs STL 3.) Nick Barnett - BUF at DAL 4.) David Hawthorne - SEA vs BAL 5.) Derrick Johnson - KC vs DEN 6.) Patrick Willis - SF vs NYG 7.) Ray Lewis - BAL at SEA 8.) Navorro Bowman - SF vs NYG 9.) Pat Angerer - IND vs JAX 10.) Daryl Washington - ARI at PHI 11.) London Fletcher - WAS at MIA 12.) Mason Foster - TB vs HOU 13.) Sean Weatherspoon - ATL vs NO 14.) Karlos Dansby - MIA vs WAS 15.) James Laurinaitis - STL at CLE 16.) Paul Posluszny - JAX at IND 17.) Curtis Lofton - ATL vs NO 18.) James Anderson - CAR ...

As I was putting together this week's Cheatsheet the enormity of Week Seven's IDP bye-week bitchslap finally registered it's full force. This week's fantasy talent pool is noticeably thinner, and that coupled with the general madness that is any week in an IDP league (don't fight it, embrace it, and then kill it while it's sleeping) has led to quite a few new faces being mentioned this week. Gonna be a wild one kiddies. To help you be one of the inmates that run the asylum here's a look at my Top 30 defensive linemen, linebackers, and defensive backs for Week Seven of the 2011 season in IDP leagues. These rankings are based on Default IDP Manor Scoring, which awards 1 point for solos, .5 points for assists, 2 points each for fumbles forced and recovered, 4 points for interceptions, sacks, and safeties, 6 points for defensive touchdowns, and 1 point for passes defensed. It's a balanced scoring system, so if your IDP league is especially tackle-heavy or big play-heavy some players may move up (or down) a few spots. DEFENSIVE LINEMEN 1.) Jared Allen - MIN vs GB 2.) Terrell Suggs - BAL at JAX 3.) Calais Campbell - ARI vs PIT 4.) Charles Johnson - CAR vs WAS 5.) Chris Clemons - SEA at CLE 6.) Will Smith - NO vs IND 7.) Chris Long - STL at DAL 8.) Julius Peppers - CHI at TB 9.) Cliff Avril - DET vs ATL 10.) Ray Edwards - ATL at DET 11.) Michael Bennett - TB vs CHI 12.) Ndamukong Suh - DET vs ATL 13.) Greg Hardy - CAR vs WAS 14.) Elvis Dumervil - DEN at MIA 15.) Haloti Ngata - BAL at JAX 16.) Darnell Dockett - ARI vs PIT 17.) Robert Mathis - IND at NO 18.) Kyle Vanden Bosch - DET vs ATL 19.) Brian Robison - MIN vs GB 20.) Richard Seymour - OAK vs KC 21.) Jabaal Sheard - CLE vs SEA 22.) Israel Idonije - CHI at TB 23.) James Hall - STL at DAL 24.) Jeremy Mincey - JAX vs BAL 25.) John Abraham - ATL at DET 26.) Derrick Morgan - TEN vs HOU 27.) Ahtyba Rubin - CLE vs SEA 28.) Dwight Freeney - IND at NO 29.) J.J. Watt - HOU at TEN 30.) Robert Ayers - DEN at MIA LINEBACKERS 1.) Pat Angerer - IND at NO 2.) Desmond Bishop - GB at MIN 3.) Ray Lewis - BAL at JAX 4.) Paul Posluszny - JAX vs BAL 5.) D'Qwell Jackson - CLE vs SEA 6.) James Laurinaitis - STL at DAL 7.) Sean Weatherspoon - ATL at DET 8.) Daryl Washington - ARI vs PIT 9.) Barrett Ruud - TEN vs HOU 10.) David Hawthorne - SEA at CLE 11.) Sean Lee - DAL vs STL 12.) Curtis Lofton - ATL at DET 13.) Derrick Johnson - KC at OAK 14.) DeAndre Levy - DET vs ATL 15.) Brian Urlacher - CHI at TB 16.) D.J. Williams - DEN ...

undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined We're five weeks into the 2011 season, and as is often the case with IDPs there's as much down that is up and as much up that is down. Injuries keep piling up, journeymen are playing like studs (fantasy-wise anyway), studs are barely showing up, and sometimes when setting your IDP lineups it's hard to know whether to scratch your watch or wind your butt. (Double points if you know that movie reference, as it's not one that our crowd would generally get) To assist you in doing so here's a look at my Top 30 defensive linemen, linebackers, and defensive backs for Week Six of the 2011 season. These rankings are based on Default IDP Manor Scoring, which awards 1 point for solos, .5 points for assists, 2 points each for fumbles forced and recovered, 4 points for interceptions, sacks, and safeties, 6 points for defensive touchdowns, and 1 point for passes defensed. It's a balanced scoring system, so if your IDP league is especially tackle-heavy or big play-heavy some players may move up (or down) a few spots. DEFENSIVE LINEMEN 1.) Jared Allen - MIN at CHI 2.) Jason Pierre-Paul - NYG vs BUF 3.) Terrell Suggs - BAL vs HOU 4.) Osi Umenyiora - NYG vs BUF 5.) Brian Robison - MIN at CHI 6.) Greg Hardy - CAR at ATL 7.) Robert Mathis - IND at CIN 8.) Jason Babin - PHI at WAS 9.) Julius Peppers - CHI vs MIN 10.) Charles Johnson - CAR at ATL 11.) Ndamukong Suh - DET vs SF 12.) Will Smith - NO at TB 13.) Kyle Vanden Bosch - DET vs SF 14.) Richard Seymour - OAK vs CLE 15.) Justin Smith - SF at DET 16.) Haloti Ngata - BAL vs HOU 17.) Cliff Avril - DET vs SF 18.) Chris Long - STL at GB 19.) Michael Bennett - TB vs NO 20.) Ray Edwards - ATL vs CAR 21.) Michael Johnson - CIN vs IND 22.) Israel Idonije - CHI vs MIN 23.) Jeremy Mincey - JAX at PIT 24.) Ahtyba Rubin - CLE at OAK 25.) Dwight Freeney - IND at CIN 26.) Darryl Tapp - PHI at WAS 27.) Andre Carter - NE vs DAL 28.) J.J. Watt - HOU at BAL 29.) Jabaal Sheard - CLE at OAK 30.) John Abraham - ATL vs CAR LINEBACKERS 1.) Ray Lewis - BAL vs HOU 2.) Pat Angerer - IND at CIN 3.) Patrick Willis - SF at DET 4.) D'Qwell Jackson - CLE at OAK 5.) Sean Lee - DAL at NE 6.) Desmond Bishop - GB vs STL 7.) James Laurinaitis - STL at GB 8.) Nick Barnett - BUF at NYG 9.) Sean Weatherspoon - ATL vs CAR 10.) Brian Urlacher - CHI vs MIN 11.) Paul Posluszny - JAX at PIT 12.) James Anderson - CAR at ATL 13.) Navorro Bowman - SF at DET 14.) Stephen Tulloch - DET vs SF 15...