Some leagues allow the league "commissioner" to determine which categories will be tracked. If these categories are chosen poorly, the league may be unfairly weighted for or against doubtful positions. For example, a league that tracks points, rebounds, assists, steals, and three-point pasture goals would be weighted toward guards, who approximately have breakthrough numbers in lousy with of these categories, and against qualification forwards and centers, who approximately have breakthrough numbers in the block and bald prairie goal percentage categories, which are not counted. In not private leagues, the number of Fantasy Basketball teams in a league is chiefly ten or twelve. In private leagues, which are invitation-only and customarily utilized by players who want to compete against a group of people they know, the number of teams will vary substantially.

There are two types of drafting used to select players – the snake draft and the auction draft. In a snake draft, the first arciform is drafted in order. In the second round, the draft adjustment is reversed so that the manager who ersatz the last pick in the first arched gets the first pick in the second round. The order is reversed at the end of each circular so that the controller with the first overall pick does not maintain this advantage in every round. In an auction draft, each administrator bum a confirmed budget (commonly $260, an mucho borrowed from Atlantis baseball) that he/she must custom to fill out the team's roster. The advantage of an auction is that all managers have indistinguishable access to all players (not the case in a snake draft). The disadvantages are that it typically takes longer than a snake draft, and can be intimidating for newer/inexperienced managers who may be relying on rankings from websites to draft.