Appreciate your Assignors

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I can help a busy assignor greatly reduce their efforts in many ways.

We have many members who are not very cooperative when it comes to keeping their Arbiter blocks up to date. You know that you bowl every Wednesday night? Block all Wednesdays. You don't want to work Saturday nights? Block Saturday nights. You have a business, or family, holiday party on a certain date? Block it. You have an early evening doctor's appointment on a certain date? Block it. Planning a three day ski weekend with the family? Block it out. Got a third date with a hot single Mom? Block it out. We also have a few guys that don't check their email every day. Even with various $15.00 fines, this happens all the time. Reasons why I would never want to be an assigner.

[Smitty]

I was told that our assignor earns something around $30k for the job. There are around 350 officials in our association and I don't know how many games, but probably in the thousands throughout the season. It's a thankless job - and based on the emails that have been sent out literally begging people to just follow common sense protocols when you have to turn back a game, show up late, keep blocks up-to-date, and just generally handle your business - I would never want to do it.

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by Rich

I don't think you appreciate how much time and effort goes into making sure that there are officials at this many sites. Schedule changes, subs for officials, coordinating weather-related postponements, along with all the other stuff.

As I said earlier, I'm not trying to minimize their work or in any way imply they are overpaid, I just didn't realize the compensation was to that level. Not only do you have the initial games to assign, but there's turn backs, game time changes, weather postponements, last minute turnbacks.... AND... I'm assuming most of these assigners also have another non-basketball job they do as well!

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by Smitty

I was told that our assignor earns something around $30k for the job. There are around 350 officials in our association and I don't know how many games, but probably in the thousands throughout the season. It's a thankless job - and based on the emails that have been sent out literally begging people to just follow common sense protocols when you have to turn back a game, show up late, keep blocks up-to-date, and just generally handle your business - I would never want to do it.

# of Cranky phone calls from dissatisfied AD's
x Number of "That Guy" officials in the assigning pool
= Reason I'm grateful someone else is doing the assigning at whatever the cost

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Among other duties, I was the assignor for our local kids rec league for about 15 years. The big advantage to this was scheduling for myself the games that were the most convenient and also being able to decide who my partner would be for each game.

I also spent time going to other games in our league to do evals.

I assigned a small Christian School Jr High and HS league several years ago. About 15 teams total. At that time, I did it for no compensation. Being able to choose my assignments and my partners was about the only benefit I got.
And this was in the days before email and Arbiter. I did everything with paper and pencil, through mail and landline phone calls.

Don't want or need those headaches anymore....