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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 02:49pm
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Not sure how everyone else gets their assignments but ours are made using Arbiter. You get an email informing you that you have a new game (or games), you log into Arbiter and accept or reject. If you accept, all the information about the game is there to include which position you are (R, U1 or U2), who your partners are (with all their contact info), where the game will be played (with address & phone number), who the game adminstrator is as well as who the billing official is. If a supervisor will be observing, you know who that will be as well. I love this system. It also sends you an email reminder 3-4 days prior to game day with the information in it as well.

In other words, there is no excuse for showing up at the wrong location.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 02:51pm
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Not sure how everyone else gets their assignments but ours are made using Arbiter. You get an email informing you that you have a new game (or games), you log into Arbiter and accept or reject. If you accept, all the information about the game is there to include which position you are (R, U1 or U2), who your partners are (with all their contact info), where the game will be played (with address & phone number), who the game adminstrator is as well as who the billing official is. If a supervisor will be observing, you know who that will be as well. I love this system. It also sends you an email reminder 3-4 days prior to game day with the information in it as well.

In other words, there is no excuse for showing up at the wrong location.
Part of the problem is you also get the visiting team information. I'm not saying it's excusable, but in the middle of a busy season it's definitely possible to get your wires crossed and mess this up. That's why it's standard protocol here for the R to call the rest of the crew two days ahead of time. If I'm the/a U and haven't heard from the R, I'll initiate the calls.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 03:05pm
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Part of the problem is you also get the visiting team information. I'm not saying it's excusable, but in the middle of a busy season it's definitely possible to get your wires crossed and mess this up. That's why it's standard protocol here for the R to call the rest of the crew two days ahead of time. If I'm the/a U and haven't heard from the R, I'll initiate the calls.
I agree this doesn't take the place of making the phone - definitely needs to be done as well.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 03:13pm
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I agree this doesn't take the place of making the phone - definitely needs to be done as well.
As Smitty noted in his area, the whole crew would be held responsible to a certain degree if the phone calls weren't made.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 03:33pm
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We use Arbiter. Last night I get to my game site an hour before game time. I have the girl's JV/V. There's a guy already there starting to dress and I know both my partners are female. He claims to have the boy's JV/V at the same gym. He has no smartphone, so he asks me to log into Arbiter for him on mine. Turns out his games are this Friday, not Tuesday. He didn't appear to be a moron - people just make mistakes sometimes. On his way out, he said "no wonder none of my partners responded to my emails today". Phone calls are really the best way to make sure everyone is on the same page.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 03:37pm
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Another example. Last Saturday I had a couple games from another chapter who uses a different assigning software than Arbiter - some home-grown thing. My crew all got an automated email on Thursday stating the time had changed for our Saturday games. No problem. On Friday I get a call from my 'R' asking me if I noticed that the site had changed as well. I say no - thank goodness she called me because I would have gone to the original site. Sure enough, at the bottom of the email there was a note saying the site changed as well. I was so thankful she called.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 03:40pm
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Smitty, is the other assigning software Zebra-Ware?
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 03:03pm
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Not sure how everyone else gets their assignments but ours are made using Arbiter. You get an email informing you that you have a new game (or games), you log into Arbiter and accept or reject. If you accept, all the information about the game is there to include which position you are (R, U1 or U2), who your partners are (with all their contact info), where the game will be played (with address & phone number), who the game adminstrator is as well as who the billing official is. If a supervisor will be observing, you know who that will be as well. I love this system. It also sends you an email reminder 3-4 days prior to game day with the information in it as well.

In other words, there is no excuse for showing up at the wrong location.
Sure there is. I've had the game location in Arbiter be wrong. All the officials showed up on time at an empty soccer field.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 03:07pm
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Sure there is. I've had the game location in Arbiter be wrong. All the officials showed up on time at an empty soccer field.
I was speaking of when one of the officials shows up in the wrong location Granted if the info is wrong in Arbiter, everyone will show up at the wrong location but when everyone shows up at the right location except one official, that official has no excuse IMHO.
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Old Wed Jan 19, 2011, 10:01pm
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My problem with the state coming out with guidelines, is they have, in essence, condoned 1 person games.

It's sort of a catch 22, though.
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Old Thu Jan 20, 2011, 07:06am
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One Person Games ???

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My problem with the state coming out with guidelines, is they have, in essence, condoned 1 person games.
Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. Our state interscholastic sports governing body (CIAC) didn't come out with these guidelines, rather, our state IAABO board, did. The CIAC did contract with officials to pay 150% of a game fee for a one person game.

99% of one person games, here in my little corner of the Constitution State, are 3:30 p.m. middle school games, or 4:00 p.m. high school freshman games. We simply don't have enough officials available for these afternoon starting times to cover the forty-five towns, many with multiple schools, in our geographic area. We have about 300 officials on our local board, but almost all of us have day jobs.
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Old Thu Jan 20, 2011, 07:33am
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My problem with the state coming out with guidelines, is they have, in essence, condoned 1 person games.

It's sort of a catch 22, though.
Need not be a catch 22, if 1-person games are sanctioned only at certain levels (sub-MS, rec ball, etc.). That gets the info out with the message that HS games need 2 officials.

Or you could require explicitly 2 to start a HS game, as WI does. Good policy, IMO.
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