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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
Plus, we are service providers to the teams. Given that some officials really are better than others, do you really think the teams want to 40th best ref since the 20th best has his/her turn last year? Don't they deserve to hire the "best" available official? Sure, There needs to be a way to address inequities in the system to ensure that those that deserve to go get a chance but simply being an average offical for X number of years is not an adequate measure.
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What I'm saying isn't that anyone who puts in their years and is an average refs should get a shot. I don't think that. What I am saying is that our present system is basically grading on a curve and only the top 15% or so can get A's, even if 50% of the class gets 98% or better. I'm saying that anyone who is "good enough" to do a great job at the tournament should get a chance, even if there are 40 or 50 who are also good enough to do a great job at the tournament. I won't use names but in looking at who's gone to the tournament this year, and then who will be going next year (if this year's ranking holds), I can't see much difference in abilities to ref. In fact, I see some who've never gone who might actually be better than some who've gone several times.
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
With our old system, we would be sending approximately the top 20-30% of our varsty officials (no less than 29 different people over a two year window...~10% of our entire organization from rookies to vets). That was already a pretty good number. It's not like it was 5-10 officials going every year. Now we'll be sending approximately the top 40-45% of our varsity officials to the tourney. I doubt you'll ever find a wider distribtion of tourney assignments in any other associatoin.
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I can't see where you're getting your numbers. Are you saying we only have 100 varsity officials? I'm 100% sure that's quite a low estimate. More like 225, I think. With the new system, we'll be sending 38 refs over a two year period, which is about 16%. I'm not sure where you get 40-45%.