Well....

There's a live draft in which everyone picks players to fill out their roster, as described above somewhere.

Every player not drafted becomes a Free Agent.

You can add a FA at any time by dropping a player currently on your roster.

You can also make trades with other league members.

You start of Day 1 of the season with a starting lineup filling as many or as few of your positions as you wish.

There's a limit of 162 games at each position, and since the season is roughly 180 days long, there will be days when you may not, or will not want, to have every position filled.

If your starting third baseman is A Rod, for example, and the Yankees are off, you probably won't want to substiute for him, since that will replace one game of A Rod with one game of someone else, and that game will count against your 162 game limit.

If you replace A Rod with a third baseman from your bench every time the Yanks don't play, you will wind up the season with something like 144 games of A Rod and 18 games of his substitute, but if you're patient and only have a third baseman in your lineup on days when A Rod is playing, then you get to have all 162 games you are allowed at 3B used by A Rod.

Of course, if A Rod stubs his toe or something, and misses an odd game or two because of an injury, then you would want to make those games up by using your substitute third baseman on a day when the Yankees aren't playing.

So, on a daily basis, you can take players out of your starting lineup and replace them with guys from your bench before the next days games start.

If you have a starter of lesser quality than a top superstar type (let's say at a weaker position, like second base, where not all of us will get a great player, as opposed to a much stronger position, like First Base), you can also consider things like pitching matchups, slumps and hot streaks, and ballpark effects in deciding who to play ot not play on a given day,

But you can't exceed 162 games at any position.

You also draft 6 starting pitchers.

Since the typical SP makes about 33-35 starts each year, and the limit that you can have is 162 starts, you can't (or shouldn't, anyway) leave all 6 of them in your starting lineup every day or you will reach your 162 game limit after they all make about their 27th start, which would be some time in August.

Not that that is necessarily bad, but it doesn't give you the option of deciding which pitching matchups you want to take advantage of and which you don't.

Like if you have starters from the NL, you may not want them to pitch at Coors, for example.

So you have to pick and choose carefully which SPs to use on which days against which teams.

All of the statistical info that you need to make these "match-up decisions" is available online from a number of sources.

If you're interested, I suggest that you read through the thread, paying particular attention to my longer, more recent posts.

Then if you are still interested ( ) drop me a PM and we can set up a time when we can take a look at the game site together (that will be helpful if you've never played one of these Yahoo games before. If you have, it's probably not necessary) and chat thru IM while we do so.

To take the tour you'll have to register for the game, but if you decide you don't want to play, you can remove yourself from the league before the season starts.

Once ythe season starts, though, you can't remove your team, but as I have indicated above, you can "manage" your team as much or as little as you wish.

There's also a 5 man Disabled List, which you can use when a player goes on the DL in real life