multi game series umpire rotation

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Originally Posted by bniu

I've got a best of 7, best of 5, and a best of 3 series to assign to a 6 man crew. What is the alignment supposed to be?

For example, in the best of 3 series, for game 1, where do I have the umpires start out? My umps are in order of seniority: Crew Chief, Associate Crew Chief, Assistant Crew Chief, Umpire 4, Umpire 5, Umpire 6. I am doing standard rotation: HP->RF->LF->3B->2B->1B

In addition, for a single game playoff, is it better for the crew chief to have the plate or be at 1st base? Some ppl say that the crew chief outta be at 1B and have the 2nd most senior guy behind the plate...

Allow me to ber heretical here, and suggest that you schedule based on MERIT, rather than seniority? BTW, you have a CC, an Assistant CC AND an "Associate" CC? YGTBSM - this has got to be a crew of Federal Govt employees [or academics] where titles like "Associate Deputy Assistant Undersecretary" are commonplace. But, back to my point ...

You want your best plate guy [which may NOT be one of the CC's] on the plate for the final game - assign him there. You want the best rules guys in the infield for the important games - don't assign them to the outfield lines. And while we're at it, you should select your Crew Chief(s) from the strogest Rules guys, not just based on Seniority or even mechanics talent; since in most schemes where there is a CC, that member of the crew, not the HPU is the final word on rules issues.

Since this is a "best of ..." deal, your scheduling may want to be "Dynamic", in the sense of responding to the series sitch, rather than the ordinal number of the game [Game 4 is more important at 3-0 than 1-2 [best-7]].