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Fantasy Files: Using havoc to find fantasy-friendly DSTs

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Host Ian Hartitz breaks down his process for identifying the top DSTs ahead of 2021. Conversation begins with Ian explaining why defensive scoring in fantasy land comes down to creating negative plays more so than holding the opponent to a small number of points. This leads to an explanation on the metric 'havoc', which essentially measures a defense's ability to cause chaos on a play-by-play basis. Ian then lists the top-10 teams in havoc from last season as well as who has stood out over the past half decade. The podcast concludes with a look at the best and worst strength of schedules to start the season before Ian gives his top targets at the position.

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to PFF Fancy Football Podcast. I'm your host, Ian Harterson. Today we continue

0:12.8

our fantasy finals series with a look at deep fences and special teams. I know I've

0:17.0

slandered a lot of a lot of this position and kickers on Twitter. I know it's important

0:21.3

though. A lot of you are in leagues with the position. No, I will not waste my time talking

0:25.2

about kickers, not now, not ever. But as a former linebacker myself, back in the

0:29.7

glory central Ohio high school football days, I do think that you know, defense certainly

0:34.4

has a role in any game that we want to try to mimic real life football. Do I necessarily

0:39.2

agree with the way we score defense and special teams? No, IDP isn't perfect either. But

0:44.8

again, it's the game we play for that reason. We will try to master that. So thank you

0:48.8

as always for tuning in and we will get right into it. First of all, for those kind of

0:52.7

unfamiliar with the scoring, I think we're just so much better off on defense focusing

0:57.2

on groups that can create havoc chaos, negative plays. Remember that chiefs Rams game from

1:02.8

a few years ago is 54 to 51. The Rams gave up 51 freaking points and they still managed

1:09.7

to turn in a solid defensive effort in fantasy land because they scored a touchdown or two.

1:14.1

They had some force. Females, they had some sacks. They created negative plays. So in

1:17.6

the year 2021, offenses are going to put up points. The best we can do is find a defense

1:22.9

that at least has a sort of past rush, maybe you know, fast offball linebacker safety for

1:27.5

talking about Jamal Adams and just again, able to get in the backfield and cause havoc.

1:32.4

So we're going to be using that word a lot in this podcast. But basically people, again,

1:36.5

you can get points on defense for sacks, interceptions, almost recovered, safeties, defensive

1:40.6

scores, kicking parmeter and touchdowns and two point conversions. Not surprising. We

1:44.8

all understand this. But when you consider them, the points allowed potential bonus. I mean,

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