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Ignats75

BktBallRef wrote
Do you get a double game fee when you work back to back games or do you work a doubleheader for less than what two games would normally pay?

They get 2 full game fees. i.e 35.00 for frosh and 40.00 for jv. Better deal than the V guys!!!!!

Adam

BktBallRef wrote
Do you get a double game fee when you work back to back games or do you work a doubleheader for less than what two games would normally pay?

We get two separation game fees plus the mileage stipend for one trip. When I was in Iowa, the second game was worked at a discount.

Welpe

Subvarsity assignmets are usually double headers. Varsity games are usually assigned individually. We are paid mileage here and the schools don't want to pay more than they have to plus we don't have enough officials to have a new set come on for each subvarsity game.

BktBallRef

Snaqwells wrote
We get two separation game fees plus the mileage stipend for one trip. When I was in Iowa, the second game was worked at a discount.

Which is why I asked. It varies from area to area.

If there's a discount for working both games, many booking agents will send a crew for each game.

BillyMac

BktBallRef wrote
It varies from area to area.

Around here, the most common setup is a freshman game at 4:00 p.m., a junior varsity game at 5:30 p.m., and a varsity game at 7:00 p.m. Almost all games are two person games. Varsity officials will just work the one varsity game, always. Subvarsity officials may work a doubleheader, depending on the availability of officials on that particular date, at those times.

No doubleheader "discounts". All varsity game fees are $88.28 for each official. All subvarsity game fees, all the way down to middle school games, are $57.25 for each official. No mileage.

refiator

Welpe wrote
Subvarsity assignmets are usually double headers. Varsity games are usually assigned individually. We are paid mileage here and the schools don't want to pay more than they have to plus we don't have enough officials to have a new set come on for each subvarsity game.

In Georgia (at least in Atlanta), it is typically the opposite. 1 JV (sometimes 2, depending on the teams. Often boys and girls play simultaneous games in separate gyms).
Varsity games are always played girls/boys double header with 3 officials. Occasionally 1 of the JV refs is a varsity ref and works the 2 Varsity games as well as the single JV game.

BktBallRef

refiator wrote
In Georgia (at least in Atlanta), it is typically the opposite. 1 JV (sometimes 2, depending on the teams. Often boys and girls play simultaneous games in separate gyms).
Varsity games are always played girls/boys double header with 3 officials.

That's the way it works here as well.

Occasionally 1 of the JV refs is a varsity ref and works the 2 Varsity games as well as the single JV game.

Ouch! No desire to work 3 games/5 hours of basketball.

SCalScoreKeeper

Here in my area of SoCal we assign crews a maximum of two games.For instance my school is a JV/Var only school.So on nights where everyone is together two officials get the JV Girls and JV Boys games while another crew comes in and does the varsity games. During our tournaments the first two days are 4 crews (2 man) and last week in our girls tourney they sent us three crews on the last day (1 for 7'th and 5'th place games,1 for the third place game,and another for the final).For the boys tourney they sent us two crews on the last day (1 did 7'th and 5'th place games,the other 3'rd and Final).

JRutledge

I must clarify that in the larger areas usually there we do not work doubleheaders on varsity nights, meaning a JV/Sophomore prelim game with a Varsity contest is almost always a single contest. There are some of the smaller areas or rural areas that where there are not assignors for those games, you can see the same official work both games. That is becoming more and more rare, but schools do not put in the same effort to make that happen as an assignor would. Also if you work a double header you do not get paid two separate game fees for the most part. Usually the fee for the doubleheader is not the same as if you worked two separate games at a particular level. That does not make a lot of people around here (meaning my state :rolleyes🙂 happy.

Peace

ga314ref

refiator wrote
In Georgia (at least in Atlanta), it is typically the opposite. 1 JV (sometimes 2, depending on the teams. Often boys and girls play simultaneous games in separate gyms).
Varsity games are always played girls/boys double header with 3 officials. Occasionally 1 of the JV refs is a varsity ref and works the 2 Varsity games as well as the single JV game.

...just outside of Atlanta, and we usually have GJV/BJV DH, then the G/B varsity doubleheader, all on the same court.

26 Year Gap

ga314ref wrote
...just outside of Atlanta, and we usually have GJV/BJV DH, then the G/B varsity doubleheader, all on the same court.

Is that where that song Midnight Train to Georgia came from?

Sapper33

crew of 2 for sub varsity, usually a dbl header, and a crew of 3 for girls and boys varsity. Some of the leagues have commisioners and they assign and some of the schools you have to call them and ask if they have any games available. Some leagues know their schedule of who is doing the varsity games 2 years out.

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Sapper33 wrote
crew of 2 for sub varsity, usually a dbl header, and a crew of 3 for girls and boys varsity. Some of the leagues have commisioners and they assign and some of the schools you have to call them and ask if they have any games available. Some leagues know their schedule of who is doing the varsity games 2 years out.

Sapper, what part of KS?

zm1283

The vast majority of our assignments are 2-person. 99.9 percent of the assignments are two-game nights, sometimes three games like tomorrow night. Most of the time the three gamers are small schools where they will play a JV game of some sort followed by GV and BV.

We have one assignor and one large association that books every game except for when schools want to book their own tournaments, and there are only a few of those throughout the year.

grunewar

Sapper33 wrote
Some leagues know their schedule of who is doing the varsity games 2 years out.

I was lucky enough to get a new assignor this yr and now I know about 2 months out for "some of my games."! And for that, I feel fortunate!!