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In my association in northern VA, first year officials will mostly (about 90% of the time), only do rec ball. In your second year, you will be assigned frosh/jv games. In order to move to the varsity level, we are "invited" to participate in a summer evaluation league (boys varsity) and be evaluated. The invitation is based on your ratings from the winter season. Individuals selected to move up are put on the "swing list" which means you are eligible to work varsity games, but you might also work frosh/jv games. Usually after a year or so on the swing list, we move to the "varsity" list. Now, once again, varsity officials may work a freshman game at one school and later that day work a varsity game at another school, depending upon whether you are available to do the early game. Some of our officials do this quite often. Transfers (who have worked varisty games) are evaluated by some of our senior varsity officials and then placed accordingly. You must score at least 85 on your exam to be eligible to work varsity. We have one assignor for all scholastic games and one assignor for rec ball. We cannot obtain games on our own. The association has contracts with several rec leagues and with 95% of the high schools in the area. I can work as much or as little as I want to work. We are fortunate in this area that basketball is a year-round thing.