Ranking of Officials by your Association

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by tomegun

Interesting discussion. We (Southern Nevada) have a Commissioner that makes the final decision with input from a few people. This happens after the Crew Chiefs (we have ten) provide their list of playoff officials. We had around 80 officials work playoffs (boys and girls) last year.

For those of you that use ratings from coaches, does it impact how officials deal with coaches during the regular season at all?

Nope.

For the record our rating system is not dependant all only coaches ratings. We have a ratings percentage and at Top 15 Percentage. And officials ratings go into the same equation and can affect your percentages from coaches. We have a 40 point system and ratings from coache/officials are only 5 points and 5 points for the Top 15 rankings of that 40 points. You need other numbers and considerations to be high on that 40. Currently I have as high as a number I can without working a State Final, so there is so much you control and other things you control little. So something I must be doing is working.

Honestly it does not change a single thing I do. I work hard, hustle and do my job. Coaches are going to come and go, but officials will often stay the same. And since the same system applies in all sports, I worked three State Finals by not caring one bit about ratings. And yes I have coaches that do not like me or give me problems and I still got to those levels. I am also doing fine in basketball.

Peace

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Nope.

For the record our rating system is not dependant all only coaches ratings. We have a ratings percentage and at Top 15 Percentage. And officials ratings go into the same equation and can affect your percentages from coaches. We have a 40 point system and ratings from coache/officials are only 5 points and 5 points for the Top 15 rankings of that 40 points. You need other numbers and considerations to be high on that 40. Currently I have as high as a number I can without working a State Final, so there is so much you control and other things you control little. So something I must be doing is working.

Honestly it does not change a single thing I do. I work hard, hustle and do my job. Coaches are going to come and go, but officials will often stay the same. And since the same system applies in all sports, I worked three State Finals by not caring one bit about ratings. And yes I have coaches that do not like me or give me problems and I still got to those levels. I am also doing fine in basketball.

Peace

It is good that coaches only play a small percentage in your overall rating. I would hate to be in a situation where I have to bow down to a coach...I wouldn't do well in a system like that. A funny - kind of - short story: my last game in Mississippi nobody knew I was leaving yet. I give the visiting coach a technical foul for something that was stupid. In the locker room, my partner told me that he said, "You will never work at my school again" after I walked away. Excusing the fact that my partner should have given him his second technical for this, if I would have heard it I would have threw him out of the game. I was leaving and wouldn't work his school anyway!!! The association in Mississippi was OK and the other officials were generally good people, but that is one area I don't miss working in. I still miss the DC area and missed Las Vegas while I was away, but not the "dirty south".

[JRutledge]

Our system does not still have people obsessing over ratings. Officials around here do act like they are going to get banned or a bad rating is going to kill their chances. Well it does not really work that way. Actually the more ratings you get the better it helps you as the numbers are balanced off the total number of ratings. Heck I do my job and let the chips fall where they may. Someone told me a long time ago that if a coach does not want you, you probably passed several schools to get to that game. That is so true.

Quick story. I did a JV game for an assignor who I am pretty good friends with. At the time I only was working Regionals (first level) and I was working with another official that was also a playoff official. Well in the game something happen where the home coach made a big deal over something we got right and said, "You will never be back." This happened to be the Varsity coach coaching his team and the other team was also had the Varsity coach running his team. These were bitter rivals and hated each other in just about anything they played each other no matter the sport. Well our playoffs are not assigned locally. The state assigns every single assignment. Well when the post season assignments came out, guess whose school I was working (and they hosted)? You guessed it, the coach that said I would never be back. Funny how he acted towards me the entire time I was there (we had their school twice in the regional). Things can be funny like that sometimes.

Peace