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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

I find coaches rating umpires ludicrous. Half don't know how to do their own job, let alone ours.

I agree with you 100% my state also does this, well it comes from the AD's computer but coaches have the most input in the rankings. However, what is a better system? I like ASA where you have a UIC at each tournament that is an umpire evaluating and rating all umpires there. But at the high school level (at least in my state) everyone is an independant contractor. The officials that would be good evaluators are also very good umpires and they umpire every night. So how would you rank these officials if there is nobody that can go around being impartial to view and evaluate the ~240 officials (I think this year that was close to the number in my state) that have applied for tournament assignments.