Non-refs evalutating officials

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Have to agree with the last post. If you really care about all that criteria, then you should be using certified officials for your games. I'm assuming this is an in-town league, so hiring real officials may be cost prohibitive. You'd probably be better off just doing a quick league-wide survey of coaches and having them send you a list of the people they think are the top 4 or 5 officials (no specific criteria...just who they think are qualified in general), and then you could choose from that.

Evaluating officials is a good thing...it's how we improve ourselves, and if we can't take criticism from our peers then we're in the wrong business. But critiquing volunteers, in much the same way as professionals, is another thing. It's like the old saying, "You get what you pay for." Voluteers = $0 cost, so don't expect too much. I hope I don't sound too harsh, and you can choose to ignore my .02 cents, but that's pretty much how I see it.