[dbking]

In the KC area of KS:

Two of three college leagues use Arbiter and one uses their own system. I use the same calendar for both Arbiter. They assign in August/September after the camps.

1 HS Commissioner(29 schools, B&G) uses manual system and schedules for the season in November. 1 HS(5 schools, B&G) commissioner uses ISocs and schedules for the season in August. 1 HS commissioner(13 schools, B&G & competitive leagues, tournaments etc.) uses Arbiter. I use the same calendar for the college games.

Coordinating my business calendar, personal calendar, 3 arbiters, 1 isocs, 1 homegrown and 1 manual system are a real challenge. Personal opinion is same as one above on arbiter vs. the rest. Arbiter is much better by a wide margin. I call isocs "I S&cks" No emails about games can not block enough dates to handle all the games I work etc.

I have work in multiple states and areas, IN, IL(twice), KY, CT, MO, KS and they are all different. I have found that the larger the supply of referees the shorter the schedule time is unless the AD is scheduling. AD's all schedule way out. I have also found that the more commishes that you work for the more disorder there is in the systems. You can never keep them all happy. Suburban Chicago was by far the hardest area to work due to number of commishes, traffic and real job.