The Football Dynasty League originates from the
Fantasy Basketball Federation, which was created in order to fill Fantasy Sports voids,
with it's origin's tracing back to the end of 2000. It was then that two fantasy
basketball fanatics dreamed of what the optimum Fantasy Basketball league would be like.
A league was
envisioned where you could keep all your players year after year, trading (always a tough
system to develop) would be open with almost no restrictions, there would be a Salary
system with a Salary Cap for more strategy, a larger number of teams to increase
competition, and people from different parts of the country (and world for that matter)
would be welcomed to add different perspectives to the league.
After scouring
the internet for such a league, to their surprise, such a league did not exist !
Finally in
early summer 2001, the Fantasy Basketball Federation started to take shape. An original 16
team format was decided on, a Constitution was written, a simple website was created, and
notices were posted in various forums.
Although a few
local friends were interested, no one was really certain what kind of reception or
interest would be generated, in fact there were discussions on what course of action would
be taken if 16 people weren't interested.
Those concerns
quickly subsided however, a mere 10 minutes after the first posting the first new team
joined the fold. Slowly but surely the e-mails kept coming in, and by the end of the day
all concerns were fully put to rest. Not only was the league filled within 24 hours, but
the responses were overwhelming, leading to a Waiting List long enough to start another
league by the end of the first week !
Over the years
the interest has continued to grow both nationally and internationally; a Fantasy Football
league was created in 2005, which has also flourished; and it was later decided that major
expansion was in order to established new Fantasy Sports leagues, and to develop Fantasy
Baseball.
Regardless of
our growing reputation and popularity however, our Fantasy Sports backbone remains
the same now as it did then...it's all about the people and their love of the game.
David Smith,
Commissioner |
