What company do you use for game assignments?

[ronny mulkey]

I don't know how the Forum leaders feel about endorsements, but one of our very own has an excellent product - Camron Rust and Reftown. Our local association uses it and here local groups combine with other groups for post season purposes. That post season combination also uses Reftown because Camron was able to customize his process to accomodate these 6 local groups into one seamless larger group even though it was for a short period of time.

Arbiter is neither official friendly nor assignor friendly when compared to Reftown or any other smaller assigning product that we have used before Reftown. Involved with assigning for our group, I can tell you that Reftown is an excellent product. Another issue that you will want to consider - how available are those folks for technical type issues? Reftown gets high grades from us for response times and flexibility.

If are looking, you will want to put Reftown in the mix for consideration.

[OKREF]

The schools call the officials and are hired that way. Usually the AD, or coach calls.

[Camron Rust]

Thx for the props guys. Appreciate the complements.

As for the Chicago area, I had contacted them when AssignByWeb had gone under but they (or someone in the area) had essentially already decided they wanted Arbiter and never seriously considered anything else.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Thx for the props guys. Appreciate the complements.

As for the Chicago area, I had contacted them when AssignByWeb had gone under but they (or someone in the area) had essentially already decided they wanted Arbiter and never seriously considered anything else.

We know.

And I bet you were cheaper.

Peace

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

We know.

And I bet you were cheaper.

Peace

Likely....$100 per 25 officials currently (was a little less back then).

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Likely....$100 per 25 officials currently (was a little less back then).

Do not get me started.

Peace

[#olderthanilook]

I basically work for two assignors. Before the 2012-13 seasons, only one used Arbiter. The other used pen and paper, then e-mailed game dates to me. He finally switched to Arbiter for all basketball and football in 2012-13.

[SAJ]

Being an official that has always used excel and email for assigning games for about 6-8 other officials, I'd be interested to see how these products work. Is it even cost effective with this number of officials?