Measurement

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by SethPDX

What's a hash mark?
I only do baseball/softball, but I'm pretty sure they're called inbound lines.

http://www.goallineathletics.com/hsFieldLayout.html

[SethPDX]

Reeeaaaallly. I didn't know the book actually called them that. Thanks.

[bisonlj]

Originally Posted by tjones1

http://www.goallineathletics.com/hsFieldLayout.html

So I guess I was using the right terminology. When we walk on the field, one of our first comments is "Great...they have hash marks on the field."

Everyone I've talked to that works in major college football (and small college for that matter) uses the hash mark technique. Many of the HS crews in our area are using it now as well since we attend clinics put on my these officials. I was white hat at a JV game yesterday and it saved us on 3 or 4 measurements.

Use whatever mechanic you want but I know we've become much more efficient since implementing this a couple years ago. Once we explain it to the coaches they are impressed by our little "trick".