I can’t say that I’m thrilled about it. And I can’t say that I’ve taken much action.

Yet.

If the sports hiatus carries into the summer, eventually I’m going to crack ­­- out of sheer boredom and wanting something to follow.

Fantasy sports are a main hobby of many Americans. And for some, it’s an additional source of income, or even a career.

The spring season is usually a delight for gamblers and office-pool participants. However, thus far it’s been a lost season for both.

The NCAA basketball tournament was canceled, and nobody knows if the NBA will even return to any capacity this season. Baseball? Who knows. And surely, fantasy league commissioners have no idea when to hold their annual drafts.

Trust me, I know how you feel.

I’ve been playing and hosting traditional fantasy leagues since I was in elementary school and Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) since 2014. I vaguely remember my first fantasy football draft in the year 2000, when I was 10 years old. I took 49ers’ quarterback Jeff Garcia No. 3 overall. Everyone makes mistakes.

I’ve had my share of success playing daily fantasy; qualifying for a few live finals, and owning a few years of substantial positive net profit. I was all set to head to Hoboken last month for a packed weekend of DFS and gambling. I qualified for both the 2020 DraftKings Fantasy Basketball World Championship, and the DraftKings National Sports Betting Championship - both had loaded prize pools.

Canceled.

I then turned my research and energy to a prestigious fantasy baseball league which I’ve been in for almost a decade. The annual draft has been hosted live in Atlantic City since the early 1990s, held on a weekend simultaneous to the NCAA tournament kicking off. It’s a roaring weekend in AC, as bettors fill the sportsbooks and casinos. My long-weekend getaway to look forward to every year.

But that was canceled too.

So what’s there to do in the meantime?

DraftKings and FanDuel are the two biggest DFS platforms. According to a 2017 Washington Post article, over 59 million Americans play fantasy sports. A good chunk of that whopping figure compete in DFS as well.

The DFS industry has been both proactive and creative in attempting to adapt and retain its players on its platforms. The result has been new competitive events to either wager on, or play for free.

DraftKings has turned its attention to a pair of popular competitive PC games. Yes, you can now gamble on who wins a video game. What a time to be alive.

“League of Legends” and “Counter Strike: Go” are two separate computer games with similar structure. Two teams of gamers play competitively against one another and gain points for various tasks during their games. DraftKings players can construct a “lineup” based on who plays that day and who they predict will score the most points. If you think it’s a weird concept, it sure is. You’re creating a lineup of gamers playing a fake game against each other.

There has been a worldwide growing interest in gaming, or “Esports” DFS since the abrupt stoppage of every other common sport to wager on. The result has been DFS sites offering real money prize pools to the participants who create the best winning lineups. It will be interesting to see if these games remain appealing to the public once professional sports resume.

For some reason, despite public health recommendations, there is a “mini-tour” golf league hosting tournaments right now. It’s called the “Outlaw Tour,” which is based in Arizona. According to its website, “The goal of the tour has been to create an environment that is conducive to developing players talent by providing a cost-effective solution to mini-tour golf and a week-in week-out competitive atmosphere.”

Whatever, so much for staying at home!

DraftKings took this tour of unknown wannabes and created contests for it. It’s quite hysterical, as the biggest prize in one of the DraftKings Outlaw tournaments last week was larger than the actual real-life purse that the golfers were competing for. It gives us something relatable to make a lineup for, but seriously, shame on them.

Another popular type of free contest, which both DraftKings and FanDuel offer, are game simulations.

Oh, technology.

For example, a site might say at 3 p.m. there is a simulation of the 1996 Chicago Bulls playing the 2016 Golden State Warriors. Contestants can construct a lineup based on how they think players would fare in that hypothetical, fictional game against each other.

I have to give DraftKings and FanDuel credit. Both sites are pulling out all of the stops to not only try and retain current players or participants, but also attract new ones.

How about some casual competition?

I almost spit my coffee out when I opened up the FanDuel lobby last week and discovered that there was a contest for ABC’s longtime hit reality TV show “The Bachelor” on Monday.

That last sentence was not a joke. It’s real.

Who would you pick? Jamie or Savannah? The reality stars that you select for your lineup rack up points during the episode for various actions such as crying, going on a date or receiving a rose.

If The Bachelor isn’t your cup of tea, FanDuel currently has contests for tonight’s reality show “Top Chef.”

Hopefully, live fantasy drafts will be back and better than ever soon enough. And we’ll also be able to wager on the four major sports that we all love. And huddling around a cardboard fantasy draft board in the backyard with our friends will become reality again.

For now, we can only reminisce on the days of constantly refreshing our live scoring, watching a 76ers’ playoff game on TV, or sitting in the Citizens Bank Park bleachers on a Sunday afternoon with a cold one and a hot dog.

America needs sports, but health and safety are the obvious first priority. In the meantime, who can give me some insight on the Top Chef contestants?