Upon doing so you will be taken immediately to register with FOXSports.com, where you will fill out the pertinent information allowing you to use our FOX Fantasy Baseball site. Now, whenever you're ready you can just sign in and you're one step closer to joining or creating a Fantasy Football team.

On the Join a League page you are given three choices of league types to join; Private, Published, and Public. Here are the differences:

Private League: To join a private league you have to be invited by the league commissioner. The Commish should provide you with a league ID and password for you to join the league. Private leagues are not open to the public but can be created by anyone who wishes to compete against friends, family, or coworkers.

Published League: Published leagues are Private leagues that have been made public to fill open slots. This is great for the Fantasy Football participant who wants customized scoring not offered in Public leagues.

Public League: A great option for both new and veteran Fantasy Football players, public leagues use the default league configuration (scoring, league rules, roster settings, etc.) set by FOX Sports. Selecting this option automatically places you in a public league with your choice of draft type: live or automated.

Once you have selected a league type, you will be prompted to create your team. After filling out your team name, team abbreviation, and choosing your email preferences, click the continue button and you're ready to begin preparing for the draft! NOTE: If you have chosen to join a public league you will be prompted to select the time and date of your draft.

On the "Create a League" page, you can begin to enter your league's information.

During the season, teams will compete using a Head to Head scoring system.

Head-to-Head: In Head-To-Head leagues, each team will play against one other team each week to see who can compile the best stats across all of the stat categories and the best accumulated total score to win the week.

If you chose to customize your league's settings, you'll first choose which type of draft you'd like: Live, Autopick, or Offline.

How Live Drafts Work: Once the draft begins, the Owner with the first pick in the draft will be on the clock. The Owner must draft a player before the allotted time runs out. Once a player is drafted the Owner who picks next is on the clock. The draft order follows a ladder or "snake" order of drafting. In a 12 team league the first round order would be Team 1, Team 2, Team 3…etc. In the second round, the order would reverse and would be Team 12, Team 11, Team 10…etc.

As the draft progresses you will be able to see each team in your league fill out its roster. Feel free to offer up your opinion of draft selections in the chat room within the Live Draft application.

Automated Draft: In an Automated draft the drafting is handled for you by the FOX Sports automated draft process. All picks for each team in the league are made by the computer based on each team's pre-draft player rankings. The order behaves just like a live draft (see above) with the computer drafting a player for one team and then drafting a player for the next team based on the remaining players. If you select an Automated draft be sure to set your player rankings so you have a better chance of getting the players you want.

Offline Draft: If you're able to get everyone in your league together in person for your draft, an Offline Draft is the best way to draft. Nothing is better than calling your friends' poor draft selection to their face. During an offline draft your league Commissioner keeps track of the players drafted to each team. After the draft is complete, the Commissioner enters the results into the game using the Offline Draft Tools.

After the draft page, you're taken to the League Rules page where you can adjust the rules that will govern your league. Settings include General rules, Add/Drop rules, Trade rules, and Minimum/Maximum scoring requirements.

Next you will move onto the Roster Settings page. Here you can edit how many players you would like in each starting position as well as designate any flex/utility positions you'd like to use. Keep in mind that there is a maximum of 30 roster slots allowed per team. You can also set the number of bench and disable list slots you'd like your league to use.

From there you will be taken to the scoring settings page and can select which statistical categories your league will use. You will also select the numerical values for each stat category your league uses. Beneath the offense scoring section and the defense scoring section, there are links to show the advanced, more obscure, statistical categories for each.

The final page is a confirmation of the league creation and a review of the settings you've chosen for your league. Here you can make any changes to these settings by clicking "Edit" next to each section. When you are ready to start your season, simply click "Continue," and you'll be taken to your league home page. Now you can begin to invite owners using the Invite Owner feature in your Commish tools.

For more complete, in-depth fantasy draft information, check out our Free FOX Fantasy Football Draft Guide.