Ratings through Arbiter

[bainsey]

Does anyone's organization do its officials' ratings (for coaches/other officials) through Arbiter? Can someone tell me what they need to click to take a look?

(I'm sure there's a setup on Arbiter's end. Just want to know if a demo is viewable.)

[JRutledge]

Maybe there is a feature somewhere, but I have never seen anything that allows anyone to rate directly through Arbiter. I know some notes can be left for the game by the officials and probably the schools, but no direct rating system that I can tell. That might be something that can be used by the assignor or association that controls their site.

Peace

[LRZ]

There is an "evaluations" tab, but, like many arbiter functions, you probably need an assigner to authorize its use.

Search the arbiter site for "evaluations" and you will find several "how-to" articles.

[Valley Man]

There is a utility that assigners can use to rank officials. You can then rank your games and Arbiter will only list officials of the ranking that you set for a game when you get ready to assign games.

[LRZ]

If I'm reading it correctly, the assigner may choose to have officials evaluate each other:

At https://arbitersports.zendesk.com/hc...to-Z#Officials, it says:

Lead Officials
A lead official is defined by the preference you have set. It can be one of two defaults: The official in the first listed position or the official who is highest ranked in the first listed position. Admins can choose the lead official on a game by game basis by editing the slot and marking it as the lead official. Each game is limited to a single lead official.

All Officials
This allows officials to complete evaluations on each other. Since officials can't evaluate themselves, if an evaluation only has the plate umpire selected to evaluate the plate umpire won't see an evaluation for that game (unless there are multiple evaluations). There is no permission or preference for which officials can complete evaluations. The permission to 'Select games to evaluate' is to allow evaluators to find officials to evaluate.

[BillyMac]

I don't know who set it up, or how it was set up, but we've been using Arbiter to rate our partners for several years. About three times a season, somebody "opens up" the ratings and we can see our ratings, with the names of the raters deleted.

At the end of the year, the partner ratings are combined with trained observer ratings, all being made available to a committee to determine our status as varsity, or subvarsity, with the partner ratings carrying only a little strength in the total rating process.

Also, we tried to use Arbiter to rate everyone at a site, not just partners, but those in the other game at the site as well, subvarsity, or varsity. Arbiter told us that this couldn't be done with their software.

[SRQREF]

Arbiter has an evaluation section. This requires the assigner to assign an evaluator to the game just like he/she assigns officials. Once the evaluator is assign, he/she will evaluate all the officials on the game and when the evaluations are complete the evaluations are:
1. Sent to the officials after completion.
2. Keep an electronic record of the evaluation within the Arbiter system.

Additionally, as an assigner I can review the following information regarding my evaluators:
1. Make sure my evaluators complete all the evaluations assigned
2. Review the average scores, individual scores completed by the evaluator
3. Compare evaluation scores between individual evaluators (make sure they are on the same page)
4. Evaluate the evaluators.

This is a very useful tool for official feedback and evaluator competency.