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Originally Posted by rainmaker
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%.
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Remember that all it takes to be a regular member in the PBOA is to work for 3-5 years (or as little as 1/2 season for experienced transfers) and don't make an absolute disaster of too many games. That doesn't make a person a varsity official.
We only have about 100 (maybe 110-120) "varsity" officials...officials that work mostly/exclusively varsity games. We do have 225 regular members but there are several of those that never work varsity and several that only work an occassional varsity game.
We have from 40-70 varsity games a night with the typical being about 50-60. For 2-person crews (rough approximations here), that means you need about 70-80 regular varsity officials that will work a varsity game most every Tues/Fri with another 30-40 or so that have varying proportions of JV and Varsity and another 30-40 that get an occassional Varsity game on the busiest nights.
Based on that and the new system, we're guaranteed to send at least 44 different people over a three/six/nine year period....will work out to around 50 in practice. Those numbers....44/100, 50/110, or 50/120...give a result of approximately 45%.