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Old Sat Mar 23, 2013, 10:17pm
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You are correct. We went to Arbiter.

I had one friend tell me about officialassignor.com
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Old Sat Mar 23, 2013, 11:35pm
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BV = none

GV = RefTown

ECAC = Presto & Arbiter

And yes, it's a pain using four different methods to update my schedule.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 06:54am
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Arbiter ...
We've been using Arbiter to assign games for eight years, for two years to rate partners. The only complaint that I know about is that partners can only rate partners, so Arbiter can't be used by officials to rate non-partners that they may have observed, i.e., varsity officials rating junior varsity officials. Many of us use the contacts feature to confirm games with our partners, and with school athletic directors, and we can also use the map feature to remind ourselves of directions to out-of-the-way schools that we may not have been to for several years. We also use Arbiter to send out "email blasts", and to produce invoices with our game assignment fees. We do not use Arbiter to pay officials. Our Arbiter fee is $1,900.00 per year.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 01:49pm
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Our Arbiter fee is $1,900.00 per year.
How many officials and games? Just curious.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 05:26pm
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Our Arbiter fee is $1,900.00 per year.
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How many officials and games? Just curious.
About 325 working officials. About 70 high schools (boys, girls, varsity, junior varsity, freshman), plus a few dozen middle schools. 4027 games, mostly all two person games, so about 8054 assignments.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 05:35pm
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We've been using Arbiter to assign games for eight years ...
What's also nice about Arbiter is that some of our "mini" assignment commissioners also use Arbiter, and they can "see" our high school games and, thus, prevent assignment conflicts. The assigner for my Catholic middle school games actually lives in Florida. He sits on a warm, sunny, sandy, beach, with his adult beverage, with an umbrella in it, and uses his tablet computer to assign his Connecticut Catholic middle school games, without having to worry about conflicts with our high school games, because he can "see" our high school games. What a life.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 05:39pm
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What's also nice about Arbiter is that some of our "mini" assignment commissioners also use Arbiter, and they can "see" our high school games and, thus, prevent assignment conflicts. The assigner for my Catholic middle school games actually lives in Florida.
I could save you about $600 and do the same things.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 05:50pm
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Our Arbiter fee is $1,900.00 per year.
Actually I was looking at the wrong figures. The $1,900.00 is the estimated cost in our association's 2013-14 budget. We paid $1,800.00 for the 2012-13 season.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 06:36pm
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Actually I was looking at the wrong figures. The $1,900.00 is the estimated cost in our association's 2013-14 budget. We paid $1,800.00 for the 2012-13 season.
$5 or $6 per official is the typical Arbiter cost.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 02:13pm
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I don't see how that's acceptable in 2013.

For me, I've known nothing but Arbiter.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 03:19pm
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Arbiter for 4 difference conferences, but BlueZebra for 1 conference.
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Old Wed Apr 03, 2013, 12:31pm
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Arbiter for 4 difference conferences, but BlueZebra for 1 conference.
What are the conferences, if you don't mind my asking ... just curious ... looking to talk to some different conferences as we are adding and improving things!
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 04:15pm
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I don't see how that's acceptable in 2013.

For me, I've known nothing but Arbiter.
Believe me, it's more than a little aggravating.
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Old Sun Mar 24, 2013, 09:47pm
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Believe me, it's more than a little aggravating.
Out of curiosity, what's the rationale?
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Old Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:37am
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We use Arbiter in North Carolina. Mandatory for every HS sports assigner now, and the state association is linked to the games in order to make sure no uncertified officials are calling HS games, as well as oversee suspensions and such.

And now that a few of my recreation assigners (I use 3) are using Arbiter, I don't use anyone that doesn't have it.
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