Playoff fees in SC

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I understand this but it does not seem fair to the players to have officials working both games. I am sure there are officials like there are officials in my area that when they work two games take a break or do not give the same effort to both games equally because they have to work both games. I just think that is a silly model. And your comments make it clear that you like others might not care about one of the games as much as the other. To me give games to different officials and I am sure that is not impossible if you scheduled it correctly.

Peace

Many things we do in SC are silly. It's why a lot of officials in my area work college ball or cross the border to work in Georgia. Which makes the powers that be upset .

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Many things we do in SC are silly. It's why a lot of officials in my area work college ball or cross the border to work in Georgia. Which makes the powers that be upset .

GA is that much better? Granted, I lived there 15 years ago but I don't remember the fees being great. I also remember working split DHs in the playoffs (i.e., 4 games at a site, one crew worked games 1 & 3, the other worked games 2 & 4). For the fees at the time it really wasn't worth it financially to only work one game.

[zm1283]

Missouri uses a zone chart for district and state playoff games and pays a flat fee. For example, if you live between 0-40 miles from the game site there is a flat fee for that zone. If you live 41-80 miles away, the fee steps up to another flat rate, and so on. It is not quite as much as we make in the regular season, but it's close. The rates go up the further you go in the state playoffs.

I'll make a $78 flat rate for a sectional (first round of playoffs after district tournaments) that is about 15 miles from my house.

[Nevadaref]

I can't comprehend how any location could pay less for a playoff game than a regular season contest.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I can't comprehend how any location could pay less for a playoff game than a regular season contest.

Sometimes regular season game fees are set locally while playoff game fees are set at the state level.

So if one locale has higher fees than another within the state, the playoff fee might be some "average" of those two (and all other locales), and the officials from the higher-paying locale will make less during the playoffs than during the regular season.

To the OP, if the regular season rate is 2 for $78 and the playoffs are 2 for $85, then that seems consistent. I'm not sure if you're complaining about the rate or that it was originally set as two separate dates and is now combined.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Sometimes regular season game fees are set locally while playoff game fees are set at the state level.

So if one locale has higher fees than another within the state, the playoff fee might be some "average" of those two (and all other locales), and the officials from the higher-paying locale will make less during the playoffs than during the regular season.

To the OP, if the regular season rate is 2 for $78 and the playoffs are 2 for $85, then that seems consistent. I'm not sure if you're complaining about the rate or that it was originally set as two separate dates and is now combined.

Yep. Our association negotiates game fees and mileage rates with the schools we serve. The state governing body doesn't set rates with schools for regular season games, only district/playoff rates.