Boys, take pity on me

This weekend, I am participating in my first fantasy football draft. Though I am more into pro football than most women I know, I have never understood the allure of the whole fantasy process. (I only agreed to do this because they were short a player to make a full league.)

I don't understand how scoring works, or what is important in ordering draftees. I don't have a sense of which players are the best performers. I know that we are picking offense on Saturday and defense on Sunday, and I think there are 10 rounds of each. I also know I have the 4th pick, but we are doing a "serpentine" draft so it will alternate between the 4th pick and the 9th pick in each round.

That's it.

Can someone who does this stuff all the time and understands it better than I do (and, ahem, is not going to be competing in the same league against me and attempting competitive sabotage) take pity on poor lil' me and direct me to a good site for draft orders and research? I will be forever in your debt, or something.