Monthly captain notes (draft — not sent)
1. Write the fee down before anyone pays you
A captain on r/hockeyplayers said they might be taking care of payments and asked if they were going to get hosed financially. If teammates pay you instead of the league, you are the person who has to show what you received.
OpenSports also describes a captain-pays-in-full registration where the captain settles with teammates off the app. A private ledger is the record of that settlement. This site does not hold the money.
On this site: The captain who asked about getting hosed
2. Ask which registration type the league actually sells
OpenSports documents four different setups: the captain pays the team fee, one fixed price per player, a custom split the captain assigns, and free-agent registration. Those are not the same promise.
Read the league’s own sheet before you tell the room a number. Their published example prices, including a $2,000 team fee, are an old illustration, not your invoice.
On this site: Four registration setups, not one team price
3. A lower goalie price is an example, not a standard rate
On OpenSports custom split, a captain can assign different amounts. Their captain guide walks through a $2,000 team with a $200 deposit and shows a goalie and a part-time player at $100 while other players cover the rest at $200.
Use your fee and your roster. Do not copy their illustration into your text thread and call it the going rate.
On this site: Goalie and part-time amounts are assigned, not assumed
4. A fixed league price does not move because the team agreed
On a fixed split, OpenSports says the organizer sets one price and the captain cannot assign a different dollar amount. A private discount for the goalie is a team settlement after that, not a new league price.
Keep those two numbers in separate lines so nobody argues later about which one was paid.
On this site: A fixed league price is not a private discount
5. Make the cents add up before you announce a number
This calculator rounds shares to cents and checks that they add back to the fee you entered. If someone has already paid more than their share, the extra stays visible as a credit instead of vanishing into the total.
If fixed spare fees run past the team fee, the split stops instead of inventing a negative share. OpenSports, separately, says an overpay on their custom split shows as a negative balance and that refunds are up to the league admin.
On this site: How this calculator rounds · When the money collected does not match the fee
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