Board Ratings And Rankings

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by zebraman

How many years of experience would an official need before you would be comfortable? There are some great basketball scouts who never could play a lick. Similarly, you don't have to be a great official to recognize officiating talent.

No, but you do have to at least understand the rudiments of quality officiating. I'd be willing to bet that 98% of second-year officials don't know enough about positioning, mechanics, or judgment to give an informed rating of an official in a high-level varsity game. So either pick an arbitrary number, like 5 years of experience, or say that Varsity officials are only rated by other Varsity officials.

What would be a problem is to label those officials as "JV officials" and only let them be rated by the "varsity officials."

I'm not suggesting that at all. JV officials could be rated by any official who works JV or higher. It just seems to me that a 2nd year official isn't qualified to rate a Varsity official. JMO.