Arbiter Mandate

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by LRZ

Here, in SE PA, there is no mandate for school basketball, the only state-sanctioned sport I currently work. Some basketball assignors use it, some don't.
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The kid from Chester looked good last night. I have some cousins who played at Academy Park.


Our state association hasn't mandated anything. Both my HS boards utilize Arbiter. The previous commissioner on my local board lost his position in 2010 in part because he refused to go to electronic scheduling; he was still using pen and paper and sending out assignment on an Execl spreadsheet.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

The kid from Chester looked good last night. I have some cousins who played at Academy Park.


Our state association hasn't mandated anything. Both my HS boards utilize Arbiter. The previous commissioner on my local board lost his position in 2010 in part because he refused to go to electronic scheduling; he was still using pen and paper and sending out assignment on an Execl spreadsheet.

It's funny - part of the reason I decided not to reapply for the assigning gig I had in 2007 was because the teams insisted I go back to manual scheduling. I refused. The guy doing the job now is STILL emailing out assignments manually 7 years later.

[LRZ]

Originally Posted by Rich

[snip] The guy doing the job now is STILL emailing out assignments manually 7 years later.

Being retired, I LOVE those emails (or occasionally a phone call) at 8 or 9 am, asking if I'm free that afternoon. Sure! Where, what time?

[Scuba_ref]

WA State uses Arbiter for all sports.

[ronny mulkey]

Originally Posted by Scuba_ref

WA State uses Arbiter for all sports.

Scuba,

How is it accepted by officials or assignors? Are there any additional fees the officials have to pay? Have there been any glitches during the season? Is there any items about Arbiter that you wish they would change?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by LRZ

Being retired, I LOVE those emails (or occasionally a phone call) at 8 or 9 am, asking if I'm free that afternoon. Sure! Where, what time?

We get those emails, and we use arbiter for all levels (I think it's mandated for HS ball, but I'm not sure). I started using Arbiter when I moved to my current city. Before that, in the same state, my assigner was using paper assignments. My last season there, I didn't get the last page and thus had no idea that there was a game for me that I missed. This was 6 or 7 years ago.

I have no idea if they're using arbiter now, I imagine they are.

[JRutledge]

Arbiter is mandated for any games in the Chicago area with almost every assignor. Not a state mandate, but if you want to work in most conferences this way, you have to pay to be on Arbiter.

Peace

[ronny mulkey]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Arbiter is mandated for any games in the Chicago area with almost every assignor. Not a state mandate, but if you want to work in most conferences this way, you have to pay to be on Arbiter.

Peace

Rut,

The official pays a fee? How much?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by ronny mulkey

Rut,

The official pays a fee? How much?

I believe now the fee is 6.75 for each official. I forget because it is been a sore subject and the fee keeps going up. In my opinion this schools should pay for this if we are being told they love the system. And then with Arbiter we put all this personal information, and then the schools never seem to use it for their paper work.

I love some of the convenience of Arbiter, but it really sucks how it is used.

Peace