Amazingly the league back in 1997 is almost the same as it is today. Not much has changed other than some minor rules. Sure there's the Tom Prince Rule, which has never been implemented, the late season expanded roster rule, waiver period and the first round lottery, but none of these are really game-changing. Somewhere around 2004 or 2005 the waiver rules were relaxed and allowed teams to sign players after the trading deadline, though they were no longer elligible to be keepers past the current season.
On March 18, 2001, the first edition of This Week in the DMBL with Zane Smith premeired on the DMBL web site. Soon after, it was joined by Did You Know?, the Press Box, Rookie Watch, Number Crunch, and others.
2001 also featured the very first appearance of Butch's Pre-Season Sims. The Swami had debuted way back in 1993 in the MicroLeague Newsletter, but debuted on the web in 1999.
In the Summer of 2006, during a scheduled intermission, Butch Garretson ran a simulated tournament of the best teams in the DMBL's history, dubbed the Dream Season.
At the end of the 2006 season, the DMBL Hall of Fame began voting for its inaugural class. The voters voted in four members.
Who knows what the future holds for the DMBL? Maybe the scores will be featured on ESPN's bottom line? Maybe Mike and the Mad Dog will be doing more draft reviews? Maybe there'll even be a high-profile owner someday? Only time will tell!
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