internet age. They then used USA Today or whatever to track who won each game, but the cool part of their league was the draft itself.

They did it with a sort of salary cap and bidding. IE (and I have no idea if this number is right), if the salary cap in 1988 was $17 million a year, then you had $17 million to build your team. When they drafted, they'd take turns putting a player on the draft board, then everyone would bid on them. If you wanted to spend $15 of your $17 million on Michael Jordan and that's what it took to outbid everyone, then you could. But it would only leave you $2 million for the rest of your players in the bidding.