Our system does not still have people obsessing over ratings. Officials around here do act like they are going to get banned or a bad rating is going to kill their chances. Well it does not really work that way. Actually the more ratings you get the better it helps you as the numbers are balanced off the total number of ratings. Heck I do my job and let the chips fall where they may. Someone told me a long time ago that if a coach does not want you, you probably passed several schools to get to that game. That is so true.
Quick story. I did a JV game for an assignor who I am pretty good friends with. At the time I only was working Regionals (first level) and I was working with another official that was also a playoff official. Well in the game something happen where the home coach made a big deal over something we got right and said, "You will never be back." This happened to be the Varsity coach coaching his team and the other team was also had the Varsity coach running his team. These were bitter rivals and hated each other in just about anything they played each other no matter the sport. Well our playoffs are not assigned locally. The state assigns every single assignment. Well when the post season assignments came out, guess whose school I was working (and they hosted)? You guessed it, the coach that said I would never be back. Funny how he acted towards me the entire time I was there (we had their school twice in the regional). Things can be funny like that sometimes.
Peace