[SC Official]

I hope I don't offend people when I say this. We have a bunch of bitter old geezers (and some not so old officials) in our state who think they should be entitled to get "quality assignments" rather than having to earn them. Our rating system is such that an official's ratings by his peers counts 25% of the total rating. As you can guess, it's not hard or uncommon for these officials to give poor peer ratings out of spite for a younger official or an official that works college basketball–and that harms those officials significantly. The "extreme" ratings (highest/lowest) are not dropped, either, so if you get one "failing" rating by a peer, it's not going anywhere.