I do this a lot for people in your situation. Around here we can usually drain to a creek. No creek--no problem. Easiest and cheapest way: Decide where to dig a big, deep hole---say, 10 feet across and about as deep. Like spokes on a wheel and the hole as a hub, trench outward as far as necessary and about 18" below ground at the farthest point from the center. At the hole go down as far as necessary to get the trench to pitch down to the center hub. Install 4" perforated drain "tile" in the trneches and cover with crushed stone or gravel to about 6-8" below ground (the less earth over the crushed stone the quicker it will drain. Fill the big hole with crushed stone to about the same level as the trench (this is called a "dry well" Backfill everything. Trenching can be done by renting a 4" chain-type trencher from Home Depot or a have local do it, or even a backhoe with an 8" wide bucket.
A variation of the covered-over dry well is drop a 6" perforated pipe horizontally in the hole before you backfill with stone. In periods of really wet weather you can drop a submersible pump down there and suck out water to increase storage capacity, sort of like a drinking water well.

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