Working with (not against) your partner

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Well, for HS we have a rating committee of three. The umpires are expected to rate their partners and submit the forms to the committee. The committee also goes out to watch what games they can including the games they may work.

Toward the end of the season, each member reads all the submitted evaluations and independently rates those eligible for the HS state tournament. It is almost uncanny how close the three lists are. The problem is we submit our selections to the HS committee who then takes separate coaches' ratings and determines which umpires will work what tournament games. We routinely have umpires omitted by the coaches simply because they called the game by the rules and that isn't right.

And it is not weighted for the number of games umpired, number of umpires rated by the coaches, winner or loser coach, or for the tendencis of the coaches.
Another association I know discarded the comment card from the losing coach.