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Old Thu Jul 22, 2010, 08:58am
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agree...

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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM) View Post
Tim,

Interesting question.

I believe that soliciting input from coaches for an umpire evaluation system would most likely be a good thing. While I wouldn't give it a ton of weight in the overall evaluation scheme (I don't know, maybe 25% max...), I believe there are some aspects of our umpiring that coaches have a unique perspective on - and it would be good to include that perspective whether the purpose of the evaluation was to rank/score umpires or simply help them improve their umpiring.JM

agreed Tee, good question.....

I think this is a good question and as above I would include their ratings but only under a weighted system that would mollify any bias.....

Stan

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