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Schools Hiring Non-Licensed Officials. It is important for the integrity and advancement of the officiating profession that only those qualified and trained actually officiate IHSA contests. If you are aware that an IHSA member school is hiring non-licensed officials, please inform the IHSA Officials Department. The IHSA will investigate these allegations with your name remaining anonymous, if so desired.
OFFICIALS RATINGS
Procedures. Coaches are required to rate every official who works a varsity contest. Information that will be obtained will be a composite rating, win or loss information from coaches, and the number of contests worked. Individual ratings from coaches and schools will remain confidential. These ratings will be used to help determine postseason assignments. Officials will be able to view the percentile rating only. Schools have until the end of the state tournament series to rate an official.
State Final Official – Must be good enough to be assigned to the State Final Tournament. Must be in the top 10% of all officials in the following categories: rule knowledge, physical appearance, mechanics and signals, positioning, game management, attitude/professionalism, consistency, judgment and reaction to pressure. (#1 Rating)
Sectional Level Official – Must be good enough to be assigned to a Sectional tournament. Must be in the top 25% of all officials in the following categories: rule knowledge, physical appearance, mechanics and signals, positioning, game management, attitude/professionalism, consistency, judgment and reaction to pressure. (#2 Rating)
Regional Level Official – Must be good enough to be assigned to a Regional tournament. Must be in the top 50% of all officials in the following categories: rule knowledge, physical appearance, mechanics and signals, positioning, game management, attitude/professionalism, consistency, judgment and reaction to pressure. (#3 Rating)
Varsity Level Official – This official is good enough to be assigned to varsity contests but needs more game experience to become a Regional level official. (#4 Rating)
Lower Level Contest Only – This official should be assigned to lower level contests to gain more game experience to become a Varsity level official. (#5 Rating)
Average Rating. Each official who officiates a varsity contest should be rated by both schools. All the ratings are added together and divided by the number of ratings for the final rating. The IHSA administrator in charge of officials determines if a 5 rating stays as part of an official’s rating.
The percentile ranking of your rating is the most important component of the rating process. The percentile ranking informs the official as to what percentile their rating falls according to all the other officials in that sport. If you have a 90% ranking this means that only 10% of the officials in that sport have a better average rating than you.
The percentile ranking is found by dividing the average rating by the number of ratings and then ranking that decimal according to all other officials in that sport.
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