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Originally Posted by grunewar
... see your running total and evaluation score averages, and even comments made by other officials. While it is anonymous, if used ... directly after each game, you know what the other members of the crew rated you.
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That's why we can only see our ratings about three times each season (including all of your ratings at the end of the season), when the ratings are "opened up", usually for a few days (usually over a weekend) each "open" period, to maintain the anonymity.
Otherwise, you work Friday night, have Saturday off, and a new rating shows up on Monday, making it easy to guess who rated you.
With our system, we just see the ratings in progressive "clumps".
Even then, we have a few guys who "sign" their comments, "Nice job BillyMac. John Doe", or, "Merry Christmas BillyMac. John Q. Public".
Also, we are fined if we don't submit our Arbiter partner ratings in a timely manner.
Arbiter Late Rating – If submitted more than 5 days from game date
- 1 Late or Missed – No Fine
- 2 to 3 Late or Missed - $25 Total
- 4 or more Late or Missed - $50 Total
I find it odd that our board puts such importance, thus the fines, on partner (Arbiter) ratings since they carry such little weight in the overall rating process (how reliable can ratings be when two inexperienced subvarsity guys rate each other in a middle school game, or a freshman game, they barely know if the ball is inflated, or stuffed).
It's the trained observer ratings (these guys show up early to rate both junior varsity officials, and then rate their partner in the varsity game, sometimes they have to make a "nonworking" trip (with some monetary compensation) to rate those who, for whatever reason, may otherwise fall through the cracks) that carry the bulk of the weight when the rating committee determines our status as varsity, or subvarsity, at the end of the season.
We are told that the partner (Arbiter) ratings are only used to
supplement the trained observer ratings, that it's mainly the trained observer ratings that determines our status as varsity, or subvarsity, for the upcoming season.