Vava, no other way to learn than to play. You may not win first season you play but that means you'll be ready for next year. Plus, there's really nothing much to it ... I have seen people that finish in the top 3 and never even touch their teams and leave everything on default Thoth, sure ... definitely invite your friend. There are already a couple of my buddies in there Anyone is welcome as far as I am concerned. About players: Players will be selected when the draft takes place. After everyone signs up a team, I will set the league ready for draft. Right now, it's set to "autopick" ... this means that yahoo will automatically assign players to each team based on the pre-rankings. Yahoo has default rankings which you can go and change if you want. For example, if you really want Marshal Faulk, you can set him as #1 for you and when your turn comes up, yahoo will give you that player (if he is still available). The order of teams in the draft will be random ... but once an order is set, then yahoo will go through the list and assign players. By the way, this means that if you have player "x", no other team can have player "x". You can trade players with others after the draft. Note that there are no players for defense. .. you get to choose a whole team as defense. This keeps things simpler. The other option we have is to go with a "live" draft .. in that case, all of us have to be at a PC at the specified time and we get to pick players one by one in real time! If you are not there, yahoo will give you players according to the rankings (just like autopick). The cool thing about live draft is that if you see other players are picking up good quarterbacks, you can go and pick up a good wide receiver or defense!