Umpire Rating Systems

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Originally Posted by SRW

Does your organization have a way or a system to rate umpires? If so, how is it done? Do you use it for post-season or championship assignments? Is it fair? Who evaluates? Can you challenge your rating? Do people ever get a lower rating than the previous year?

Our HS association has an Evaluation Committee (required by FHSAA). Additionally, the officers do evaluations of umpires when possible. The evals are shared with the Recommendations Committee, who makes our post-season recs.

Last year we added a "Peer Evaluation" component in which each umpire has the chance to rate all of the umpires who are eligible for post-season play.

Can you challenge your rating? Not really.

Do people ever get a lower rating than the previous year? Yes.