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Old Thu Dec 03, 2009, 11:07pm
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap View Post
Our assn is using two guys who are not calling games and paying them a game fee for each set of games [JV & varsity]. They will rate each official twice. Where I used to live had officials rate each other in games. Some guys harpooned others hoping to be better positioned for playoffs. Politics will always enter into ratings in some fashion. But having guys that are not competing for 'playoff assignments' seems to have 'good idea' written all over it.
How can you realistically rate your partner? Unless my partner really screws up, or is calling a very different game than I am, I'm not paying much attention to him/her. Certainly not enough attention to be able to give a useful evaluation of his/her performance.
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