Game Fees: What are you paid in your area?

[Moosie74]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Here in my little corner of Connecticut, we often have difficulty assigning mid-afternoon middle school, and freshman high school, games. Rarely, they may only be assigned a single official.

The usual reason for only one official is a screwup, by the assigner, or by the an official, or a last minute illness, or injury, or other extenuating circumstances (traffic, car accident, flat tire, etc.).

We actually have some written guidelines for one person mechanics.

I'm on boards in ME and NH and haven't started working in NH where there are considerably fewer officials available so that may indeed happen but in Maine everything from 7th grade up is always 2 person unless there is an emergency.

Games where a second official is unavailable are moved to a day/time where a second official can work.

I worked a JVG game solo for a quarter last winter due to my partner being an idiot and it wasn't easy to do. Arguably when he showed up it didn't get much better but at least I didn't have to run as many weird patterns to get coverage.