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The game cards are the cards we give each coach and the PA announcer (when the BJ goes to talk with the clock operator) before the game with the team names (home/visitor) the date, the name of each official and his position. Comes in handy for the coach to single you out on any particular sequence. He can also keep it handy when he rates us - we have the coaches rate us on a 1-5 system, 1 being great. These ratings lag by one year as the ratings from this past year will determine playoff assignments for next season. Conceivably, one could Stevie Wonder his way through a season and wind up with some cherry playoff games based on his rating from the previous year.
Not all the coaches take the time at the end of the year (when they receive the ratings request sent by our association) and their ratings are dubious, at best. We had a guy who took all of last year off due to a preseason knee injury. He moved up 20 spots in the ratings and worked deep into the playoffs this year. I told him to take another year off so he'd be the #1 guy.
The wings seem to take the brunt of the coach's rating wrath as many playoff games are worked by 3 umpires and 2 R's. It's funny watching those U's run the wing. The state playoff games are even worse - those are usually 4 R's and a U.
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