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I belong to the Cardinal Basketball Officials Association (CBOA) in the Northern Virginia area. We are the largest association in the state with about 325 officials. All of our games, scholastic and recreation are assigned by CBOA. We have a separate "commissioner/assignor" for rec games and scholastic games. As far as I know, we cannot book games on our own. I like having the separate assignors because we can concentrate on developing our officiating skills and not have to worry about getting games. For rec games, we usually receive assignments 2-3 weeks at a time. Our association is revising the web site to allow officials to "click" on a specific game(s) and receive immediate notification that the game is yours. The site will be coded so that an applicant/newbie cannot be assigned to a varsity level game. For scholastic assignments, we usually receive a schedule twice a season showing game date, location, partner, position (referee/umpire), visiting team, etc. Our assignor (actually all CBOA officers) is elected and we have had the same lady assigning for 3-4 years and IMHO, she does an outstanding job of matching ability/game level. We basically have 3 levels of officials: JV, Swing, and Varsity. If I do a F/JV game, I can expect to be rated for at least 1 quarter by a varsity official. I can also ask to be rated for an entire game. These ratings are used to determine who is invited to what we call the Summer Evaluation Program. This is a summer league for varsity boys teams. It is almost impossible to advance without going through this program. Each varsity official also rates his/her partner. It is not unusual to have a Swing/Varsity official do a freshman game at 1 school and go to another school for the varsity game. As a JV official, we may do a F/JV DH or do a single game. We have about 85 high schools in this area.
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