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...