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Old Fri Jan 13, 2006, 06:46pm
assignmentmaker assignmentmaker is offline
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Re: Re: Hmm. Are you a professional shill?

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We just started with Arbiter this year. I think it is awesome. Our assigner loves it. It is so easy. It sends you email reminders of games. It is a database for contact numbers and phone numbers for your partners and links to maps for school locations. You can get your schedule or the entire schedule at the touch of a button. Apparently there is a way to do evaluations too but our association hasnt activated that yet. In fact, it was brought up at our meeting this past monday and everyone voiced their support for it again and all the rank and file said they loved it. It has ways to handle rotations so you arent working the same spots and partners all the time. It lets you as an official block out time on your calendar so that you dont get games when you dont want them. It is a great way to do announcements for cancellations. You get notified of them by email. It is web based and really easy to use. I love it.

And I agree it makes meetings more about basketball. NO time is now spent handing out assignments and changing things and all that paperwork.
How much does your association pay for the software access, per year?
Arbiter has an fee based on the modules you use, plus a fee per offical. We pay less then your assignmentmaker software costs. Arbiter runs pay reports, creates invoices, the works. I've looked into a few different programs, and quite frankly, based on my extensive research, The Arbiter is the best program I have found out there. Someone above mentioned that you can go in and block dates/times you are not available. Not only that, you can block partners, schools, just about anything you want to block. Great value for the money.
Hmm. Are you a professional shill?

The software you refer to has a one-time charge - and, if you want to use the web module, a much lower charge than Arbiter.
Unlike you and a few other posters, he doesn't seem to have a dog in the hunt -- he's just an enthusiastic user. I think the phrase "professional shill" is unfair.

I am a new Arbiter user and would recommend it highly.

--Rich
He's not just being enthusiastic - he's also talking about that which he knows not.

The cost of my system has historically been way less than Arbiter - for one thing, there has never been a yearly charge.

Sure, Arbiter is good! It wasn't so good for years when it was messing up people's XP installations. It can't do some things my system does beautifully - then again, my system can't do auto rotations of football crews . . . not my thing.
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