Reassignment rules?

[CountTheBasket]

Originally Posted by BayStateRef

Are there "rules" or "established practices" in your area or association for reassigning cancelled games or for mistakes in assignments?

Example 1:
Game 1 is cancelled because of snow. Makeup is two weeks later and game is offered to the officials originally scheduled. Neither can make it and two other officials are assigned. Makeup game is also cancelled because of snow. Who gets the first shot at the second makeup? The officials originally scheduled to work? Those assigned the first makeup? Anyone the assignor wants?

Example 2:
Assignor calls on Tuesday with a Saturday game (snow makeup) for two-person crew. Ten minutes after you arrive at the gym, two other officials show up who were given the game on Thursday. They are more "senior" officials. Who leaves? One of the guys given the game later? The "junior" official? Whoever pulls the short straw?

I'm not sure what decision the assignor here would make in Example 1, however I think it is next to impossible to have multiple crews show up to the same game like in example 2 using the Arbiter assigning system we use here.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by CountTheBasket

I'm not sure what decision the assignor here would make in Example 1, however I think it is next to impossible to have multiple crews show up to the same game like in example 2 using the Arbiter assigning system we use here.

It is possible in all systems.

In RefTown, there are warnings about having two games at the same place at or near the same time but it doesn't mean the assignor will fix it. He/she might just assign them both and have 4 officials show up.

[amusedofficial]

Once a game has been rescheduled and the original officials can't make the reassignment, it's the new officials' game until they decline any resked. Anything else is a logistical nightmare. Once a game is reassigned it belongs to the new officials.

Two crews assigned to one game, you call the assignor and let him/.her play Solomon. If you lose the game and don't get paid (very possible since schools are only cutting checks to one crew) the assignor owes you one. This, of course, is meaningless, but it gives you something to think about while you and your partner(s) get a head start at the approved site of your associations adult beverages debriefing. Plus, the sympathy factor ought to get you out of buying a round.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by CountTheBasket

I'm not sure what decision the assignor here would make in Example 1, however I think it is next to impossible to have multiple crews show up to the same game like in example 2 using the Arbiter assigning system we use here.

I once was involved in an Arbiter assigned issue where two crews where assigned to the same game, but at both schools. One crew at the home school and one crew at the visiting school. I was at the visiting school. No game but I still got paid.