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raehl
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I though security was pretty good for 5-man, and not as good for 10-man, mainly due to the lack of lanyards to hand out. I did a couple run throughs during both events to check for people who obviously didn't belong there, and it was much easier to do during 5-man when everyone had a lanyard.
On the reffing issue, I think the quality of the NXL refs highlights the kind of reffing you can expect to see when you have professionally paid, well-trained refs. When you're paying $100/day/ref at an event most people qualified to ref want to play, it's not surprising that you get the quality of ref that you did. I think it'd serve PSP well to up entry fees $250 next year and put that money towards reffing. At 16 teams per field, that's an extra $2000 to throw at the problem, or almost double the wage.
There also needs to be better tracking of referees - as it stands, they're fairly anonymous. Need to have numberred ref jersies made, assign each ref a jersey, not pay them their full wage until the end of the week when they return the jersey, and hand the head refs evaluation sheets (labelled by jersey number) to keep track of how refs are doing. Now you know which refs did well for you last time, and you can offer them a better wage to come back the next time. (Which both gives refs an incentive to do well, and prevents you from repeating your mistakes.) As it stands, I don't think the national leagues really hav a good handle on who has reffed well for them and who hasn't.
- Chris
On the reffing issue, I think the quality of the NXL refs highlights the kind of reffing you can expect to see when you have professionally paid, well-trained refs. When you're paying $100/day/ref at an event most people qualified to ref want to play, it's not surprising that you get the quality of ref that you did. I think it'd serve PSP well to up entry fees $250 next year and put that money towards reffing. At 16 teams per field, that's an extra $2000 to throw at the problem, or almost double the wage.
There also needs to be better tracking of referees - as it stands, they're fairly anonymous. Need to have numberred ref jersies made, assign each ref a jersey, not pay them their full wage until the end of the week when they return the jersey, and hand the head refs evaluation sheets (labelled by jersey number) to keep track of how refs are doing. Now you know which refs did well for you last time, and you can offer them a better wage to come back the next time. (Which both gives refs an incentive to do well, and prevents you from repeating your mistakes.) As it stands, I don't think the national leagues really hav a good handle on who has reffed well for them and who hasn't.
- Chris
