It’s Monday morning. You walk out your front door, hop into your car (or onto your bike, the subway, electric scooter, horse, etc.) and head to work. As you exit the elevator and enter your floor, you pass numerous cubicles, arrive at yours, set your bag down, take a seat, and fire up your laptop. It’s the same laptop you received when you were on-boarded five years ago, and you’ve been bugging IT to replace it for the past year. “Budget constraints”, you’ve been told, “but we’re working on it…soon”. You pull out your phone while waiting for her to boot and look at your fantasy football results from yesterday…for the tenth time this morning. And so the week begins.

This scenario should somehow apply to some of you, because according to the FSTA (Fantasy Sports Trade Association), over 56 million people in the US and Canada played fantasy sports in 2015. I do recognize that a number of these participants play Daily Fantasy Sports (also known as DFS) and that for the sake of clarity, in this post I am only referring to “traditional” fantasy sports. The type where you typically have a league of 10-14 teams (could also be less or more), each managed by your friends, colleagues or other random participants. You draft your team at the beginning of the season, and you compete head-to-head against your league-mates for the entire season. This type of fantasy sports has been around for over 30 years.