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Originally Posted by yawetag
Good point, Rich, and it's true. Using Arbiter, the assignor should know if the original officials are available. While it's conceivable to do such, it's also difficult to check officials for dozens of games that are likely rained out at the same time. If it's one or two games due to a cancellation, I could see checking; but I don't expect my assignor to check every official's availability the day after a rain that postpones every game in the area.
What if the official already has a game scheduled, but it's a lower-level game (whether by class or grade level)? Do you pull the official off the previously-assigned game to give him an opportunity at the "better" game?
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I don't know the answer to that one -- it's a choice the assignor has to make. I know the last time I worked with a single assignor (12 years ago), I'd pick up a lower level game for him if he was having trouble covering and by the time that day rolled around, he usually moved me into a varsity game elsewhere.
I know that my schedule is pretty full now -- if I get an email from one of the assignors of a top conference here and I'm already booked, I simply tell that assignor that I'm already booked. To me, a game is a game and I don't get off one to work another -- it's one of the points of friction I used to have with my college assignor who couldn't understand that I'd rather work the HS game 20 minutes from home than take a vacation day from my day job, drive 2+ hours to work a college DH, and also find a sub (and annoy the HS assignor) for my HS game. It's one of the main reasons I decided to stop working college baseball a few years ago.
So I guess I'd say if I was an assignor using Arbiter that I'd offer the game to the originally scheduled umpire only if that umpire is not assigned and has not blocked the date. If I wanted to move an umpire off a JV game to a rescheduled varsity game, I would, but I'd leave that at my discretion.
Around here, the rescheduled games are usually the responsibility of the school and they simply call/email and ask if we're available.