Rating Systems?

[jkumpire]

I saw some of my HS ratings posted today. It is an embarassment.

I won't share everything I saw, but this year I did one HS JV game. I got the call an hour before the game to sub for another guy, I show up, do the plate, the losing team gets beat 15-0, and I get a 2 on a scale of 1(bad)-5(good) from the losing coach. the team won like 4 games all year, and dollars to donuts he ripped every umpire in every game he lost. Last time that ever happens.

I applaud my state association for trying to make a better rating system and a more objective way to rate officials for tournament assignments. it is a hard job. The problem is unless you use objective standards like test scores and trained umpires to evaluate people, no rating system is fair to the umpires. Coaches just cannot evenhandedly evaluate umpires, or frankly officials in any sport.