2012 Winter-Spring: 25th Consecutive Season!

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Interestingly, as the Golden State Warriors celebrate their 50th season in the Bay Area, Dream League will celebrate its 25th season!

All I can say is, what a 2011 Fall that was. The Recession hit hard, we lost then got back the NFL, and we nearly lost the entire NBA season. It got really hard for us too, as we endured gym closures, or rate hikes at WKRC, while retaining only 4 teams in certain divisions, but we did turn over a new leaf in the process. It gave us the rare opportunity to pit the Oakland vs San Jose vs San Francisco teams. This is something we hope to continue.

But even better, in April we have the opportunity to send our Bay Area’s best to LA to go up against teams from the PacRim league. More info coming soon, as we continue discussions with our friends from PacRim, who we throw the annual LA Showcase tourney in April with.

This season, we have no choice but to raise some fees in Oakland from $520 to $550, but we will be grandfathering some teams in at the old $520 level if they get a non-refundable deposit — which can be transferred to an eventual team entry in the future — by 12/31/2011.

Also, we are putting extra effort into finally getting those career stats up.

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2011 Fall: 24th Consecutive Season!

Lockout? What Lockout?! Hehe… We’re Back!!!

What, you didn’t think I’d seriously use “the other” number 24 jersey for our graphic this season, did you?! lol… No Kobe love here!

But seriously, it *is* going to be a rather lonely Fall 2011, isn’t it? Without the NBA, that is. So hop onboard asap and don’t be left out in the cold. Dream League will be the closest thing you’ll get to the NBA for awhile!!!

Anyways, yes, we are entering our 24th consecutive season. Thanks for reading the intro, now please go…

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2011 Spring-Summer: 23rd Consecutive Season!

Using the exhaustive list of past seasons on the old site’s homepage at http://dreamleague.org, I recounted where we’re at and guess what, we are in our 23rd consecutive Sunday League season!

In honor of that, we are retiring jersey #23. No one in Dream League is allowed to wear that number. JUST KIDDING! :-)

Not much else to report this season except our ongoing incremental efforts to getting stats up quicker this season and having this site reflective of that. Easier said than done.

Keep a lookout for our other leagues, including weeknights and Saturdays (eventually will appear in menu bar up top).

Don’t forget to re-up and be placed in the drawing for returning teams (recap).

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2011 Winter-Spring: The Oracle Experience!

This season is all about our new relationship with the Golden State Warriors, where we proudly present…

The Oracle Experience — Play Where the Pros Play!

The 2010 Winter-Spring season will be our 22nd consecutive season in the Bay Area, and closing out our 9th year!

OK, that’s it for now. Read up on our addition of stats last season below, or go back to the Sunday navigation page. We will also have a Saturday league again and details will be up soon.

2010 Fall: Saved By The Stats!

Welcome to our 21st consecutive season of Dream League, as we finish up our 9th year of existence. Even after all this time, improvements can be made. I’ve always wanted to bring back stats, and this season there are more reasons than ever to do it — from soup to nuts, as the saying goes.

One of the cool things we can start implementing is career stats. We still have all the scoresheets from a majority of our past seasons and Freddie and his cousin are now Jedi masters when it comes to punching them into the site. Seeing your entire career of stats with Dream League is not too far away.

But witness this past season, in fact, the last few weeks of 2010 Summer playoffs, sadly:

  • Players who would otherwise give themselves a bad name with unsportsmanlike conduct,
  • Not being able to track technical fouls accurately in light of automatic suspensions,
  • Players being added to teams during the playoffs when they hadn’t played a minimum number of regular season games,
  • Players sandbagging against competition far lower than where they ought to be playing, and
  • Opponents being questioned as to whether or not they were tall enough to play in a certain division.

Having stats means verifying on the scoresheet that you’re really that player, which means looking at IDs, which basically adds another layer of authenticity in Dream League. The list of positives could probably go on and on. Oh, and let’s not forget the beauty of having stats, period, aside from the functional benefits mentioned above.

HOWEVER… every new initiative has an associated cost. But I think I’ve found some ways to make the transition to a better standard not as painful to the wallet.

In short, all of the above can be achieved with a raise in per-team franchise fees of just $20.

Go back to the Sundays page for the details: http://www.drmlg.org/bay/leagues/sundays/