Arbiter -- pictures?

[Mregor]

Originally Posted by ODog

Wow, being informed of who is officiating before/after you is a great feature. What program does your assignor use? I'm assuming it's not Arbiter.

All games in AZ (Phoenix) are assigned by the state interscholastic association. They use a unique software for assignments but RefPay for paying. We are charged $1 assigning fee per game. We use arbiter for football association assignments.

[grunewar]

Our Association encourages the photos, but doesn't emphasize it or, to my knowledge, penalize those who don't have a picture.

I find it very useful, especially if your new, and looking for your partners before the game. Of course, you can always just look for the nicely dressed person(s) sitting by themselves too.

[rogero1]

Does anyone's assignor charge you $5/10 to be assigned in Arbiter? I have one assignor who charges us for her usage of Arbiter.


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[Raymond]

Originally Posted by rogero1

Does anyone's assignor charge you $5/10 to be assigned in Arbiter? I have one assignor who charges us for her usage of Arbiter.


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In high school, my association have not risen since the institution of Arbiter, so would say "no".

For my college conferences, who knows. I'm sure part of our registration fees are earmarked to recoup costs from Arbiter.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by rogero1

Does anyone's assignor charge you $5/10 to be assigned in Arbiter? I have one assignor who charges us for her usage of Arbiter.


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Yes, some assigners (but not all) in both basketball and baseball.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Our high school volleyball board does this and has 100% compliance with the request to have a picture in the arbiter.Not everyone in the college groups I belong to has a picture on file but it doesn't seem like they make a big deal out of it.

Originally Posted by rogero1

Does anyone's assignor charge you $5/10 to be assigned in Arbiter? I have one assignor who charges us for her usage of Arbiter.

Yes. Arbiter charges every assignor $4 to add an official to their group, so most of my assignors pass that cost on to me.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by rogero1

Does anyone's assignor charge you $5/10 to be assigned in Arbiter? I have one assignor who charges us for her usage of Arbiter.

My landlord charges me when her property taxes go up. It's called a rent increase when my lease expires. Same principle applies to assignors when they incur Arbiter fees; somehow or other, that cost gets passed down to assignees.* In my little corner of un-Connecticut it happens in the form of a 10% cut out of every game fee. In other places it's a flat rate fee at the beginning of the season.

* Exception: when the schools and/or conferences pay the assignors directly. Then it's the schools/conferences footing the Arbiter fees.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by ODog

For those of you whose boards receive assignments through ArbiterSports (or hell, any online assigning program/service) what percentage of your members would you say have pictures with their profiles?

We have many coaches, fellow officials and people who are just bad with names/faces who seem to be increasingly asking, "My partner for an upcoming assignment is X. Do you know him?" Or a coach saying, "How am I supposed to rate/block officials if it's just a bunch of names with no faces?"

Our assignor appreciates those who have pictures with their profiles, but he doesn't require it. Our president urged more members to get pictures up last season and only a handful complied.

I'd guess fewer than 20% of our members have gone through "the trouble." Just curious if this is common or if most boards have less difficulty getting members to go along with something so simple and seemingly helpful.

Our supervisor is requiring a professional profile photo this year.

[JRutledge]

It was explained at a meeting last night that the administrator of the Arbiter site in this area will not allow you an account if you do not have an Arbiter picture. You must apply to get a Arbiter account BTW and be given access to the site by the administrator.

Peace

[walt]

My high school association encourages a picture be added. All of my college coordinators require it.

[JeffM]

I am trying to change my picture in Arbiter, but I have not had any success. I can remove the old photo. I can then upload a new photo into the system. Then I click on the "Use This Photo" and the old photo appears.

Has anyone else had this issue and figured out how to solve it?

[Altor]

My guess is your web browser is caching the old picture, even though you've uploaded a new one. Try clearing your cache.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by JeffM

I am trying to change my picture in Arbiter, but I have not had any success. I can remove the old photo. I can then upload a new photo into the system. Then I click on the "Use This Photo" and the old photo appears.

Has anyone else had this issue and figured out how to solve it?

I ran into this issue last season though I admit I don't remember what I did to fix it. I'll look and see if I can figure it out again.