Recent content by kevinray

You can go that route if you want,  but for now there is a clear and easy way to still send fantasy winnings electronically to friends and family without it being reported on a 1099-K. I haven't seen anything that even says a purpose of this change is to capture winnings for fantasy football for...

I don't think earnings is a factor so far as Venmo and PayPal are concerned. Are fantasy football winnings a good or service? You aren't buying anything, and the payment is unrelated to the performance of a service. Generally the tax debate for fantasy football is whether it is a hobby, or...

This advises that you can code the transaction as a friends or family payment and it won't be reported. The purpose of the 1099-k rules is to make sure people running a business through Paypal, Venmo, eBay, ect.. are reporting their earnings. ...

This advises that you can code the transaction as a friends or family payment and it won't be reported. The purpose of the 1099-k rules is to make sure people running a business through Paypal, Venmo, eBay, ect.. are reporting their earnings. ...

Customize. We have a home field advantage rule where the home team gets to pick the super flex position for both teams. We also like to organize the schedule so that there is a 3 week gap between playing the same opponent, and we put the two inter division weeks on the weeks with heavy byes.

Kordell published a pretty good article. Fairly good timing too as we start to return to a murky QB future. Aside from just enjoying his recollections on this wild incident my main take away is that there's a reasonable way to act when you aren't sure your QB is a long term fit and heartless way...

I used to stress about getting funds and freezing rosters but it just isn't worth the headache. I just reach out to people once they are out and let them know what they owe and to wire it over and that's been working fine. Chasing people for money early in the year or before the draft hasn't...

H2H is a fine tie breaker. It definitely doesn't ensure that the best teams make the playoffs but that's true of any league where you play games against each other and track wins and losses. It can create some more trash talk or anxiety for specific games but it doesn't always work that way. The...

My first time in the playoffs as well and this contest is always the highlight of my season despite me generally bowing out early. Thanks also to the regular posters in this thread. The superstitious side of me couldn't bring myself to jump in until the turk left the building.  Can't say this is...

I think if you let people designate backups you have to let them do it for all games. Your league switches to a ranked lineup where every bench player is potentially in play each week if covid strikes. This would at least let your league include the Thursday bench players in their plan if covid...

I think this guy will get louder when he is actually impacted but I hope this fix works out for you. Even just looking at this week, if my league had permitted backups for the Steelers-titans game then my top backup for Ju-Ju would have been Jeudy then Crowder. I also have Edelman starting but...

I think changing rules is fine if people understand the change and are on board with it. My league understood that if we permitted backup designating of starers we were basically changing the whole way we did lineups. Some teams would start ranking their whole bench each week to be covered in...

Yeah I agree that could work. I guess my thinking is that every game is technically up in the air because of covid. If this "backup" work around is being rolled out in your leagues I would mention to your owners that they can designate backups for all their starters if they want to be covered in...

The only issue I'm trying to think through is whether this will be used as a precedent for future situations that are trickier. If and when we have a game postponed after the Thursday games are played or even after the Sunday 1:00 games have started I could imagine some owners then wanting to...

I love my dynasty leagues home field advantage rule.  We have a super flex (QB/RB/WR/TE) and the home team picks the flex for the week. By midnight Wednesday the home team posts whether it's QB RB WR or TE for the week and then both teams play that position for the super flex. If the home team...