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Originally Posted by JRutledge
And coaches and certified (a ranking) officials have a say. It is not like you cannot get high numbers and overcome and opinion. I have never met a person that has not gotten a playoff game if they were not available and they did not have good numbers. The people I see complain usually do not have the numbers and have not been seen.
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Good...so I misunderstood your system...that there was a bunch of "info" that one person could use or not use as they wished when they decide who gets what.
It sounds more like there is a bunch of data that they are expected to use and if there are any interesting anomalies, it would be readily apparent to others (assuming the data is available to more than just the one person).
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Originally Posted by JRutledge
If coaches are the only people voting, not so sure I agree with that. Voting also means that people can come together to accomplish the very same thing you say is wrong with our system.
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Not only coaches but coaches and officials....about 70 and 180 of each....250 total ballots with about 3000 votes. It would take a lot of collusion to change the results in any material way. It could be done, but it would be hard to hide. A couple people have tried it...and they were reported and sanctioned. If you try to get enough people in to make the difference, you run the risk of at least one of them not being on the same page and turning you in.
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Originally Posted by JRutledge
The bottom line our administrators are independent from the coaches and the official's associations. They make decisions based on their integrity or their judgment. Not everyone is going to like all those decisions, but I have grown to understand that I would take that system over what I read many here having. And as I said, this is really not much different than the NCAA and people complain there too. You will never stop complaining.
Peace
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As you seemed to have clarified above, it looks like it isn't exactly solely at their discretion but there is data behind their decisions that they are expected to use and if there were a low ranked official that in or a high ranked official that got left out, there will at least be questions asked.
It almost sounds like you have our system (where the coaches and officials get their input) and then you add on top of it an independent person to takes those results as input to ratify/reject/modify those results with his own assignment choices.