fantasy football

I'm going to be spending my weekend wondering why this was a real thing.

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Back when I was a kid, in the early 90s, my friends and I had a fantasy baseball league.  I had the honor of being commissioner, which in those days meant a lot of work.  We had a computer, but the Internet was still in its infancy.  Each day I grabbed our daily newspaper and scoured the box scores of individual games, searching for everyone's' players and entering that information into a spreadsheet.

Why I found this fun was probably because I was an idiot.  No wonder my friends were the only people I knew who played fantasy sports back then.

With the advent of the Internet, however, has come an explosion in fantasy sports, especially fantasy football.  With all the stats being beamed direct from the moon to the web-based fantasy sports league provider of your choice, the only reason today's fantasy commissioner would pick up a newspaper is to figure out what specials the local sports bar is having.  (And if that's the case, you should tell your local sports bar to get a freakin' website.  It's 2009, for god's sakes.)

After Favre's assault of his former team last night, Week 4 of the football season is official in the books.  If you love fantasy, most of your Internet time the past month has probably consisted of you staring at your team trying to figure out what's gone right and what's gone wrong.  You're about a third of the way through your season: Time to sit down and seriously evaluate where your team stands.

If you're 4 – 0, don't worry, there's always time to screw things up.  But, if you are 0 – 4, time for a reality check.  You might still have some fight left in you, but if you see any of the 14 indicators below, I'd say your chances of a fantasy football redemption are pretty slim.

After the jump, find 14 ways to tell if your fantasy football season is already doomed… more...