Money on the team
The captain who asked about getting hosed
A public post from a would-be captain who expected to take care of payments and wanted to know the financial exposure.
On r/hockeyplayers, a player wrote that a few friends were starting a beer-league team and that they might be captain, “taking care of payments.” The question they closed with was whether they were going to get hosed financially.
That worry is what this ledger is for. It is a written record of a fee you type in, a share or a fixed amount for each nickname, and what you have marked as paid. It does not hold the money, and it does not pay the league.
OpenSports, a league registration product, documents one setup where this comes up directly. The league admin sets a team price, the captain pays that price, and teammates who register through the app are not charged again. The captain settles with them off the app. There is no down deposit on that particular option, according to the same guide.
Those are product settings and one person’s question, not a rule for every rink and not legal advice. Your league’s sheet is the one that decides who the league will chase.
Sources
- Team captain and money — r/hockeyplayers. The original post was readable. Comment threads on that post did not load for this draft, so they are not quoted.
- OpenSports registration options — Describes the captain-pays-in-full option, where teammates are not charged again in the app and the captain settles off the app.