Ratings through Arbiter

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by deecee

peer ratings are a waste of time. You either get all 9's or 10's or all crappy scores. It's hardly accurate and depends on whether you partner "likes" you or not. They should be taken with a grain of salt. Coaches reviews are even more worthless.

All I could give a truly accurate rating on would be my partners' communication skills and hustle. I have enough to do on the court to be analyzing their mechanics, signals, positioning, and play-calling.

And I have worked with a bunch of officials who have no business trying to rate me.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

... my partner ... I have enough to do on the court to be analyzing their mechanics, signals, positioning, and play-calling..

Agree. Before the most recent change in our rating system, all varsity officials would be required show up early to evaluate both junior varsity officials. Calmly observing the game from the bleachers for two, or three, periods was very conducive to a pretty accurate evaluation. As a retired teacher, who evaluated over three thousand students over the many years that I taught, I had no problems doing these evaluations.

Evaluating my varsity partner is another story, it's always been a problem for me. I've got more important things to do in a game other than observe my partner.

Originally Posted by Raymond

... bunch of officials who have no business trying to rate me.

Before the most recent change in our rating system, junior varsity officials were required to stick around for at least two varsity periods and evaluate the varsity officials. Yeah. Sure. A guy with a few years of experience can accurately evaluate a guy with dozens of years of experience working a highly charged varsity game. Tell me another fairy tale. Sure, some of the junior varsity veterans had been to a lot of rodeos, and could possibly do a decent evaluation, but overall, most junior varsity officials, in regard to evaluation, are in way over their heads.

After recent changes, we only do partner evaluations on Arbiter and these don't carry much weight in the overall evaluation process (how accurate can evaluations be when two inexperienced subvarsity guys rate each other in a middle school game, or a freshman game). It's the trained observer evaluations that carry the most weight when comes to one's overall varsity, or subvarsity, status.

I believe that my local board is making a big mistake by not requiring evaluations (on something other than Arbiter, we once had our own locally produced software that could do this) of junior varsity officials by the varsity officials who are already at the site, as we did in the past. These evaluations by veteran varsity officials can be a great resource in a rating system.

On the other hand, one great thing about the recent change is that junior varsity officials no longer evaluate varsity officials. I could never understand such foolishness, and utter nonsense.