Tournament Assigning/Ranking System

[zebraman]

Here is how it works in Washington State:

There are several basketball official's associations in our state. Approximately 10.

Each state association is given a number of "slots" for district playoff games. The number of slots is based on number of schools served and number of certified officials in the association. I think we get about 75 slots. Our assigner gives those games to the top 15 rated officials in our association. Our ratings system is a peer-based system. Your rating for playoffs comes from where you ended up at
the end of the prior system.

For state tournaments, we are again given a number of slots and the number is once again based on how many schools we serve and the number of certified officials. This year we get 4 slots at the state tournaments (1 for the B
tourney, 1 for the 1A tourney, 1 for the 3A tourney and 1 for the 4A tourney). We send our top 4 ranked officials (unless one of those officials has gone to state for 2 years in a row in which case the next highest official gets to go).

There are 8 evaluators at each state tournament (usually 7 officials and 1 coach) who watch the games on the first 2 days and decide which officials get to work the semi-final games and the championship game.

Z