Select a date and time when you know that you and other league members (if it's a Private League) have a couple of free hours to spend at the draft. You'll need a Java-enabled browser in order to participate.

If you won't be present for the entire draft, please go to your team page and pre-rank players. Your pre-ranked players are used if you can't make a selection at any time during the live draft. If you choose not to pre-rank, our default ratings are used when you can't make a selection. See the Autopick Draft Details section for more info.

When it's time for your draft, go to your league page and select "Enter Live Draft." Please arrive 10 minutes ahead of your scheduled time as the draft starts promptly and might go rapidly if only a few managers are logged in.

Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, it might take up to five minutes for the draft applet to load into your browser. If you use AOL as your ISP or access the Web from behind a firewall (ask your system administrator about this), you might be unable to participate in a live draft.

During the draft, you can view any team's roster by selecting the team name from the Drafted Players pull-down menu. A list of how many players have been drafted at each position appears in a column to the right of the roster.

You can also set up a draft queue for yourself. This list of players, which supersedes both pre and default rankings, is used to make a selection if you don't draft a player during your allotted 90 seconds. To add a player to your queue list, select a name from the list on the left side of the screen. The chosen name appears in the draft box and the player is added to your queue when you click "Add to Queue."

In addition, all of your pre-rankings are viewable by changing the sort criteria (which can be found in the pull-down menu) from Yahoo! Rankings to My Pre-Rankings.

During the draft, you see a number of indicators when it's your turn to draft. Your team name appears in the yellow box in the upper-left corner of the screen, your team icon turns yellow, and the player selection box turns yellow.

To draft a player, select a name from the list on the left side of the screen. The chosen name appears in the draft box and the player joins your team when you click "Draft." You have 90 seconds to select a player. If you don't draft within the allotted time, the computer automatically gives you a player based on your queued list, pre-rankings, or our default ratings if you haven't queued players or submitted your own rankings list. See the Autopick Draft Details section for more information. When you click "Draft," you cannot "undraft" a player, even if there's time left in your allotted 90-second selection period.

To see which player Yahoo! Sports would recommend based on our default rankings, click "Suggest." The player's name appears in the draft box. Click "Draft" to select that player.

To chat with other managers during the draft, type your message in the entry box and click "Send." All messages appear in the chat box. Draft choices are also shown here.

When the draft is complete, you see a message telling you the draft is over. Click "OK" to quit and close the applet. To see the complete draft results, go to your league page and select "Draft Results." All of the selected players are listed under the name of the team that drafted them. If there are any discrepancies, be sure to send us feedback.