Ratings

[zebraman]

Originally posted by Coachdg
Just looking for some quick opinions. Do you think a rating system that involves a peer rating along with coaches ratings work? Can you give me examples that work and don't work. Thanks

There are no perfect ratings systems. Refs that are rated high will generally feel fairly positive about a ratings system and refs that are rated lower will think that it sucks and is political.

I have seen several ratings systems in my short career and all of them have "worked" in that they generally do a fairly good job of ordering officials from top to bottom.

In my experience, a peer system works best. A system with independent evaluators sounds great, but finding qualified evaluators with time to see each official several times is almost impossible. Coaches seem to rate too much on "I remember when that official made a tough call and cost me a game" and sometimes punish great officials with their bias. Just my 2 cents.

Z