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While I understand why officials don't like being evaluated by coaches, I think your concerns are probably unwaranted. Sure coaches can be biased, but for every one who dings an official because they lost, don't you think there will be one who praises them because their team won? Nobody likes to be second guessed, particularly by people who do not have the knowledge and training of the people they are second guessing, but that's something we all have to live with all the time. A bad official can influence how a game is played, but rarely can change an outcome. A single questionable call can change an outcome, but I have never seen a game with a single questionable call. If an official is having a bad game, it is likely to show up more than once. If the official is simply not very good, it WILL show up more than once. But I have never, never seen an official who had a bias that intentionally favored one team.
As a coach, I might be inclined to downrate officials who were pretty lenient in what they called under the basket because I coach girls and because I don't value the rough stuff inside highly. Conversely, my evaluation of an official who called a lot of contact would probably be pretty high. If my perspective were the dominant one in the league, then officials who called it closely would get ahead, while the others would get down rated. Altogether, I think that is fair.
Frankly, my bet is that the major thing influencing how a coach perceives the officials is their game management. How bad is that?
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