Illinois Online Evaluations

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Originally Posted by JRutledge

This is not really true. The part about the more ratings you get the more likely you will get playoffs. It is only 5 points in a 40 point system. If your overall Power Rating is high it does not really matter what your game ratings are. You have to have some other things high and you are competing against other officials in your area. It is true the more ratings the higher your "game" ratings will be, but this is only one part of the process. And honestly, if you do not have some other things going for you, your ratings will not help you.



I can only speak of what I know but 200 would be extremely high for those that have worked the State Finals (at least on the boy's side). Actually if you have 50 ratings that is probably rather high. I know some that have higher, but they are the minority based on what I have seen. I say this because the last couple of years I have close to 80 total game ratings and I had more ratings than many guys had that have worked the state finals. And I have only worked a Sectional (the second tier of our system for those outside of Illinois). You have to have other things like Top 15 percentages, ranking (C, R, X) and even a certain number of varsity games as well.

Peace

The coaches are the ones who drive me crazy. Here is an opportunity for them to have a say (at least in theory) about the officials who work their games and in my experience they do next to nothing about it. I think I have done around 15 boys games this year and a grand total of 5 coach ratings out of a possible 30!