When playing fantasy football, you have two paths to travel. On the first, you are mildly interested and really don’t understand the point of drafting a bunch of players from separate teams. This leads to taking minimal time to set and manage your weekly line-up as, quite frankly, you couldn’t care less about what happens. After all, it is called fantasy football for a reason.

The second route is more controlling. You become obsessed with your team. When managing a fantasy football squad, you have a great deal of “responsibility.” You are the general manager and the coach. Your players are counting on you and your line-up skills to go out and get the weekly win.

In reality, the players you own have no knowledge of who you are. But you don’t care because those are “your guys.”

You rejoice when the running back you drafted gets a solid 20 points. You are left in despair (and in more serious cases, crying) when your first overall pick and leader of your team goes down with a torn ACL and is out for the season. And of course, the most common feeling in fantasy football is aggravation at a player who didn’t score up to par based on weekly projections.

You wish you could be like the owner who checks his line-up once a week and sometimes doesn’t check at all. Yet here you are, at 2 a.m. on Sunday, 25 pages deep in the waivers trying to find that “breakout” running back who will take your team from mediocre to championship contender.

This column is for those obsessive fantasy owners – those who buy your best player’s jersey one week because he scored 35 points only to burn it the next because he only scored 7 in a 50-point loss.

I salute you, obsessive fantasy owner, because for approximately three months out of the year, you are the fearless leader your fantasy team needs. So keep sending emails with trade requests to family and friends until they block you. I just hope for your sake your season ends in a championship.