inconsistent

[gojeremy]

1st year official and I need some advice. I seem to be very inconsistent from one game to the next. I have a good game where I feel I'm in position and see the floor and the players real well and that I make good calls. Then, the next game comes along and I feel uptight and I feel out of position and I feel like I have a poor game. I have the same routine before each game but I can't figure out this up and down pattern. Any help?

[deecee]

Originally Posted by gojeremy

1st year official and I need some advice. I seem to be very inconsistent from one game to the next. I have a good game where I feel I'm in position and see the floor and the players real well and that I make good calls. Then, the next game comes along and I feel uptight and I feel out of position and I feel like I have a poor game. I have the same routine before each game but I can't figure out this up and down pattern. Any help?

You're a first year? Don't worry about it. Consistency comes with experience and time. Just work on patient whistles and getting what you need to when you see it.

[just another ref]

Possibly it's not as bad as you think, but it's just your comfort level varies. Based on a number of factors, some games are dramatically more difficult to call than others.

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by just another ref

Possibly it's not as bad as you think, but it's just your comfort level varies. Based on a number of factors, some games are dramatically more difficult to call than others.

And sometimes, the first half and second half of a game can be as different as night and day.

Last week, I had a game (6th grade boys) where the first half went relative smoothly and the home team was up 3 at the half.

The third quarter comes and home opens with an 8-0 run. At that point, both teams begin to hack the heck out of each other and my partner and I find ourselves suddenly having to tighten up on what we call.

At the end of the third period, for good measure, a visiting player throws the ball at me instead of to me, and he hits me with the ball. That made it easy for me to serve tea for two.

As a new official, you will have your days where you may feel you had a great game to feeling like very little went right in the next game. When this happens to me, I try to figure out if there was anything I could have done better or differently. If not, than chances are I won't dwell on it too much (why kick myself for what I can't control?). If there is something I truly think I could have handled differently, I make a note in my journal about what I should work on improving in my next game.

[JetMetFan]

Since you're knew you have to remember you're learning something every game and you're always being put in unfamiliar situations. When that happens you start thinking. When you start thinking - instead of just seeing, processing and reacting - you feel uncomfortable. Once you have a large enough catalog of situations in your head the on again, off again feelings won't happen quite as often.