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Originally posted by Camron Rust
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Originally posted by dblref
Each varsity official rates his/her partner(s) and the rating forms are turned in to the commissioner. We use an A, B, or C rating with A being top notch, B being (that's awkard) good partner, but needs to work on such & such, and C being "don't ever want to work with them again".
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Our association used to have this sort of system. It was changed just after I started. From all I've heard...What really happened is that buddies gave buddies the top scores and gave everyone else a lower score. It didn't really reflect ability or performance.
Now there is a committee of 8-10 people that are selected to do the evaluations. There still could be some favoritism but I think it is largely minimized by the evaluation chairman selecting good evaluators.
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We also have the "good old boy" system to some extent. All ratings are turned in to the association VP (also heads up the rating committee) and he prepares a listing of the ratings according to what was reported. The official knows where s/he ranks on the list. The rating committee then breaks them down into basically the 3 categories. This list is used somewhat to determine playoff selections. Officials in the lower part of the ratings may be "invited to attend the summer session"...this is a varsity league that we use to look at officials to move from the non-varsity level to what we call the "swing list". These officials are "qualified" to do varsity level, but will work mostly frosh & JV games. Because of the number of schools we cover, a swing official (and even a varsity official) will work a freshman game (4:00 pm) at one school and then work a varsity game (7:30) at another school. I do this quite often because I can leave work as early as I need to. My boss and I have been together for years and he doesn't care as long as the report is finished on time.