Rating Systems?

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

In our state this is not at all true. In order to give a rating in our state it has to be done online and the rating has to come with a lot of questions. The IHSA also records if the team loses or wins. They found that the difference between winning and losing was a matter of decimal points. So there was no big difference in a rating from a winning coach and a losing.

Now in our state everyone makes the playoffs (only football you have to qualify for the post season with regular season record). So if they are screwing good officials and umpires, it could come back to haunt them. So I do not think there is much incentive to consider the umpire as the reason you lost a game. As it relates to baseball, we see a lot of the same coaches over and over and they might not agree with a call but they have a history of what you have done over the years or season.

Now I am not suggesting that this applies the same in other systems or other states, I am just stating that they have found this is not true as it relates to our system and we have had a rating system for almost 10 years. I know I liked it better than the previous system when coaches picked umpires they liked or knew and did not have any accountability to who was good and why.

Peace

In an association I belonged to in the past, coaches rated umpires. We found that umpires who had ejections or game ending close plays were rated lower than the other umpires. This occurred to the extent that some D-1 umpires were rated several points below JV umpires working their first varsity games.

Thankfully my current association is more enlightened.