Fantasy baseball: Explained

I go online to http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ and just sign up, I have the option of choosing my own team, based on current major league players, or they will choose my team for me at random. Essentially we get to mix and match all of the major league teams into our own "fantasy" team and play in a league. Games are scored based on how each of our individual players did in a real gam on their respective teams, we can trade, add, and drop players until a certain cutt off date. How you build up your team in this way is the strategy, everything else is left up to chance. You're also allowed to have a couple players on the bench in case someone gets injured during the season. I usually let Yahoo! pick my team at random and then I make changes from there.

I just play for fun, and to keep up with stats, but there are people who will pay to play in certain leagues, and get really competitive about it.