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Old Wed May 12, 2010, 08:59pm
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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.
It is true that the number of umpires rated are not considered. However, the number of games, the coach's knowledge and tendencies and result of the contest, if known, are taken into consideration by the umpire rating committee. The rating umpire's tendencies are also given weight.

We also tried to encourage the coaches to provide us with rating cards and had minimal response and many of those were just to whine about something they did not like.
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Another association I know discarded the comment card from the losing coach.
I wouldn't discard them, but give them very little weight.

I think the best method we used was when the umpires rated themselves by ranking each of their fellow umpires. This worked because they were forced to assign every fellow umpire a ranking. There was no way to sandbag.

Unfortunately, there is no perfect method.
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