paid evaluators

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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

How can you realistically rate your partner? Unless my partner really screws up, or is calling a very different game than I am, I'm not paying much attention to him/her. Certainly not enough attention to be able to give a useful evaluation of his/her performance.

We've got the same process here of rating the officials we work with. In addition to the (major) problem that you mentioned, there has never been any guidance given on "how" to rate. It seems most officials I've asked about it start at 10 (we rate on 6 (I think) different categories, 1-10) in all categories, and then only mark down if you screw up.

However, there are a few officials out there who take a different approach, and consider a 7 a 'good' score. In a system that doesn't allow much differentiation because of a lack of education from the association, this can make one official's harsh grading of others pretty impactful. There are also, of course, those who will grade harshly to benefit their own ranking.

All that said, I still favor an official's rating system over a coach's rating system, which is how it was in the state I came from.

Best of all worlds, IMO, would be the paid evaluator system.