Aspects of Fantasy Football Leagues

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"All right guys, so, the big thing is, when you're looking at a fantasy league, you have to decide certain aspects. One, if you're going in with some friends--like for me, I'm a commissioner of a league, so I'll invite like, I have a twelve team league, and everybody that's in the league is my friend. So, but sometimes some people just want to join a league and they don't have any other friends involved. So, you can go to different sites. You have--the big ones are Yahoo!, then you have ESPN, which kind of has its own little different setup, and you have leagues like Sportsline. So, they're the real big ones. So, I'm just going to show you guys Yahoo! right now. So the first thing you look at on the Yahoo! fantasy homepage is, you hit sign up now. And, you basically have a couple different options. One, say you wanted to be a commissioner, you could do, create league, and you could basically set up the type of roster, the size, the draft type. When we talk about draft type, there's a couple things to look for. You have live draft, you have auto pick, and you have offline. Live basically means when you do your draft--and to me, like, one of the big aspects of it is doing the live draft. You usually have a minute, minute and a half to pick a player, so it's kind of almost like the real NFL draft, it moves really fast. Auto pick is when the computer just assigns a pick to you, and then offline, where people are emailing it, that used to be the old, old way, back about fifteen years ago. But everything now, everyone likes to go live. Now, if you don't want to create a league, you just want to join a league, then you can just hit join league and you're going to find different types of leagues out there. So you have, over here join custom league, and that one you have to be invited by somebody in the league to join that. Then you have browse custom league, which basically is--there's all different setups like I was saying--you have offline drafts, online drafts, and then you have sign me to a public league. So, if you pick that one for example, let's say you're really, really starting out, it'll basically--I'll go into that one--it says, okay live online draft, auto pick draft, and so just say we'll do a live online draft, it'll basically tell you when you want to go out and pick what day. All right, so next, after this, I'm going to show you guys how to actually join a league."