Anyone else a little nervous.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by sdoebler

We have already spread basketball out over all six playing days available to address the shortage of officials and days with too many games. Losing officials to other sports and not having days available to play games would be very difficult.

Not really, at least for HS sports. ~70% of the games for HS basketball are on Tue/Fri. There almost never any on Sunday. The other 30% are spread across Mon/Wed/Thur/Sat. This is based on a sampling of not only my local organization but a few other randomly chosen organizations that use RefTown. We could easily absorb more games on the off days....or could give up multi-sport officials on those off days if the other sports were on them.

Originally Posted by sdoebler

There could easily be a reduction in total games for teams, but that is yet to be determined.

That would help and may very well be the direction it goes.

Originally Posted by sdoebler

On the other end our main assignor said he expects a large influx of officials due to the amount of people in the gig economy that have lost work and hours.

I would normally expect that too, but this is different. Again, using actual data from more than one organization around the country, the number of info requests or registrations that are normally seen through the spring and into the summer for basketball organizations are a fraction of what they normally are. Perhaps it is merely delayed and once things settle down, it will pick back up, but, as it stands now, fewer people are signing up than normal.