OHSAA already does it with rating officials. You wouldn't have to pay each umpire a varied amount by their rating but you could raise your pay to umpires and create a higher minimum score for more qualified umpires. A TD now just has to "hope" that the unknown umpires he is hiring are good. A rating system could help alleviate that problem. You could also have evaluators going to games randomly to evaluate the umpires. The assigners I have worked with in the past did some of this stuff to maintain a quality group of umpires that you could always count on.I think if we are going to rate umpires, umpire should rate coaches. The whole idea of a varied pay system is absolutely unworkable and a TD nightmare.
I love what one umpire told me years ago: “I don’t umpire for the money...but I don’t umpire for free either!”.
The umpire pool is what it is. The experience level of the umpires is what it is. The dedication and enthusiasm of the umpires is what it is.
None of that will change if you pay an extra five dollars a game. You’ll be paying five dollars more, but still getting the exact same umpires, with the exact same experience, and exact same enthusiasm. And I’m saying this as a person that would stand to gain if umpires were paid more!
OHSAA already does it with rating officials. You wouldn't have to pay each umpire a varied amount by their rating but you could raise your pay to umpires and create a higher minimum score for more qualified umpires. A TD now just has to "hope" that the unknown umpires he is hiring are good. A rating system could help alleviate that problem. You could also have evaluators going to games randomly to evaluate the umpires. The assigners I have worked with in the past did some of this stuff to maintain a quality group of umpires that you could always count on.
I hear people saying there a shortage of umpires, but it seems like tournaments are finding umpires.
two questions, what the average age of umpires? If there a shortage why?