[DownTownTonyBrown]

Z-man, What do you plan to pay your evaluators? Given a 100 officials in our association and the expectation of 4 evaluations per official that would mean the evaluator must attend at least a portion of 400 games! Another thing that I would need to think about is our school locations they range from Salmon/Challis about 160 miles to the north and Blackfoot 25 miles to the south - perhaps employ an evaluator that lives at the distant location. Should an evaluator expect $5 a game? $10?

Are you planning to have the evaluator ever divulge his identity and meet with the officials being evaluated? Or just collect a few written comments at the end of the season?

I like your ideas, Thanks.

Cameron, I have seen a similar survey of automobile drivers. Fully 85 percent rated themselves above average. And yes that means that at least 35 percent have over rated themselves - of course 35% also assumes that all the above average driver's correctly put themselves in the above average category. Same goes for officials evaluating each other - we all seem to feel we should be in the top 10 but there is just not enough room for all of us in those 10 spots.

Chuck you are correct, whenever we are criticized we want to fight back and defend ourselves. We as a whole don't have enough respect for other people's opinions. I think this emphasizes the importance of selecting the right persons to be evaluators - they need leadership skills to provide positive criticism and have it accepted, and they need to understand the plight of a basketball official trying to advance (sounds like a veteran official).

Stripes brings up another important point; the evaluators will need to keep up with the changes in the game.

All great points. Keep the ideas coming.