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Originally posted by mcrowder
You can do it easily with 3 umpires per field. Say 3 fields, 9 umpires:
1: Plate1, Base1, Off, Plate2, Base2, Off, Plate3, Base3, Off, repeat and stir.
2: B1, Off, P2, B2, same rotation...
3: Off, P2, B2, off, etc.
4: P2, B2, Off, P3, etc.
5: B2, Off, P3, B3, etc... you get the point.
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I did a similar rotation several years ago at a tourney...had 12 umpires for 4 diamond.
I hated it and vowed never to do it again. Due to one diamond running way late, one umpire would have (in essence) worked 4 games straight if the schedule would have continued. I was able to juggle schedule so I could do the game and had an "assistant UIC" (read as experienced umpire) take control of protests, etc., while I was on the game.
It looks really good on paper, but unless we have drop-dead time limits, etc., or really good teams and finish 7 innings in time limit, then we could be in for trouble. If one diamond gets off, we could be in really bad trouble.
FInd it is easier to try to match umpires with people they don't normally work with, and put them together all day on one diamond, instead of jumping diamonds (if we use 3 per diamond).