Pick your poison! Do you prefer paper or plastic? Blondes or brunettes? Watching women's golf or poking yourself in the eye with a sharp stick?

A large variety of options is just one of the great things about running your league on CBS SportsLine. And as we all know, Fantasy Baseball has more variations than Jelly Belly jelly beans. (Is Jalapeno really a flavor that gets requested that much? And I swear I had burnt popcorn flavor once before.)

There are few choices to be made in Fantasy Football league setups nowadays outside of starting three wide receivers or using a flex position. Fantasy Baseball, on the other hand, is a much different animal.

All the right moves

Are you leaning toward mixed, AL-only or NL-only? You'll also have to choose between Head-to-Head and Rotisserie formats -- or possibly a variation of both, where you play weekly Head-to-Head games, but your score comes from how many categories you outscore your opponent in. Then you'll have to choose which categories you want to score. You can go with standard categories and add some wild cards like OPS or K/9 IP. The controls are in your hands.

At one point Rotisserie used to be the standard style for traditionalists, but the Fantasy Football Head-to-Head style has officially caught up to Roto in popularity. As far as mixed leagues compared to AL- or NL-only leagues go, 80 percent favor using roster pools for both leagues and around 10 percent for both of the other types.

The baseball purist enjoys having to dig deep, looking for gems buried on a team's depth chart. A fifth starter for Cleveland could have implications in an AL-only league whereas he wouldn't even be a blip on the mixed-leagues radar screen.

Granted, the nuances of building a team up slowly in the Rotisserie standings are an art form for many owners. WHIP ratio and the stolen base are sometimes forgotten in Head-to-Head play, but lesser stat categories can be rewarded for certain owners like doubles, strikeouts by a batter, complete games pitched and blown saves.

Errors and grounding into double plays can register negative points for hitters while holds and complete games can help out some pitchers. Ask for input by your owners to determine which scoring categories you should implement. While it might sound better to have many different ones, it would be easy to accidentally overvalue a category, which would skew the system altogether. Don't value holds as much as wins or saves or you'll be picking up every stud setup man in the league. ... Of course, that could have been your intention all along.

In our updates and columns, we're always trying to give you the best info for each type. In many cases, a player that's great in Rotisserie play isn't as strong in Head-to-Head style, or a solid pickup in AL- or NL-only play might not be useful in most mixed leagues. Even within mixed leagues, some rosters might be much deeper, requiring corner and middle infielders and five outfielders.

Set up for success

Make sure your rules are clearly defined. Can you draft free agents like Roger Clemens or Sammy Sosa? What about in AL- or NL-only leagues? What if one of your players is traded out of the league, do you continue to accrue stats for him or do you have to cut him?

Grady Sizemore emerged into one of the top keeper prospects in the AL. (Getty Images)

Many leagues use dynasties or implement keeper systems where team owners can keep a certain number of players over from year to year. This is great if you have a group of owners whom you know will stick around year after year. But why would a bad team want to come back season after season if he has the league's worst keepers every year? Also, by holding out some of the best players, it makes the draft a little anti-climactic since the stars are already drafted.

A remedy for this would be to have a limited keeper system, in which an owner can only hold over players drafted in the 10th round on, costing him the same draft pick in the following season. Or owners can keep players drafted from the fifth round on, costing them a draft pick three or four rounds ahead. This would replenish the draft pool every year with most of the superstars, but the owners that grabbed studs that slipped through, like Dontrelle Willis and Grady Sizemore, are rewarded. There are even a lot of leagues that draft minor league players and hold them over year to year.

Show and tell

The Fantasy content staff runs a few out-of-the-ordinary leagues that we've already shared with you. There's the Bizarro League, in which players that play regularly, but perform poorly, are rewarded with points on your team. We also ran our BIGS League (Baseball in Grand Scale) in which 20 teams face off (10 in AL-only and 10 in NL-only) for the right to play in the three-week BIGS World Series. Interleague play and interleague trading are just a couple of the interesting components.

Since there are so many variations to Fantasy Baseball leagues, I thought it would be interesting to hear some of the quirks you have worked into your league. It could be a Bizarro-type league where players tally points for errors and low batting average. Or you could run a 20-category Rotisserie league in which almost every major baseball stat is accounted for.

We want to hear about your quirky leagues! E-mail us your quirky scoring systems or league setups at DMFantasyBaseball@cbs.com. Be sure to put Attn: Quirky leagues in the subject field. Please include your full name, hometown and state. Next week, we'll revisit the subject and post some of the more interesting ideas we receive.