Self Assign Rules

1. Active Status: You need to marked as an active official in Abritber.

2. Ready To Officiate Status: If you aren't marked as Ready To Officiate to be assigned games. If you aren't marked as Ready To Officiate, no games will appear in self assign. You can turn this off and on, on when you want to referee and off when you don't want to referee. This setting is different than blocks or blocked periods of time.

3. Game's Ranking level: All games are assigned a ranking level. The games ranking level needs to match your ranking level for it to appear in the list. The ranking levels are determined by the assigning and performance teams.

4. Official's Ranking Level: As a CBOA official you are assigned a ranking level. The games ranking level needs to match your ranking level for it to appear in the list. The ranking levels are determined by the performance team.

5. Date Range Window: The games that appear in the list to fall into the date range window. This window is a rolling window, it is 14 days from the the current date. If today is the 1st, you see games from the first to the fourteenth. This limit is set by the assigning team.

6. Daily Reset: Every evening at 10pm, the next days games, if there any, will appear in the list.

7. Self-Assigned Today: You are restricted by how many game sets you can self-assign yourself . When that limit is reached you can't assign yourself any more games until the next day (10pm that evening). This limit is set by the assigning team.

8. Weekly Number of Games: You can only officiate a certain number of games per week. This number can vary to meet the officiating demands placed on the association by our clients. The more games we have to officiate during the week, the higher the limit. In the past we had a lower limit in the fall before high school started. This let more people have an opportunity to officiate games. With CBE junior high's season shifted to the fall, we raised this number to 20 games per week. If you want to officiate more than that, you can always ask the assigner. This limit is set by the assigning team.

9. Game Assignments Already: If you are already assigned games that day, whether through self-assign or by the Assigner, you won't be able to able to self assign your games that day, You'll need to wait until 10pm that evening to see which games are available to officiate.

10. Blocks or Blocked Dates: You are able to block dates that you have other activities planned. On the days that you are blocked, games that fall during the blocked time won't appear in the self-assign list Your name also won't show up for the Assigner to manually assign games to you.

A 14 day rolling window is used so that you can plan your games 14 days into the future.

The 14 day window includes the current day. If today is Sunday January 1, the window ends on Saturday Jan 13.

Sunday's window ends on a Saturday. You will see games that are on self-assign from Sunday to Saturday (14 days including Sunday). At 10 pm on Sunday, the games on self-assign for Sunday will show up.

Monday's window ends  on a Sunday. You will see games that are on self-assign from Monday to Sunday(14 days including Monday). At 10 pm on Monday, the games on self-assign for Monday will show up.

Tuesday's window ends on a Monday. You will see games that are on self-assign from Tuesday to Monday (14 days including Tuesday). At 10 pm on Tuesday, the games on self-assign for Tuesday will show up.

Wednesday's window ends on a Tuesday . You will see games that are on self-assign from Wednesday to Tuesday (14 days including Wednesday) . At 10 pm on Wednesday , the games on self-assign for Wednesday will show up.

Thursday's window ends on a Wednesday . You will see games that are on self-assign from Thursday to Wednesday  (14 days including Thursday). At 10 pm on Thursday , the games on self-assign for Thursday will show up.

Friday's window ends on a Thursday. You will see games that are on self-assign from Friday to Thursday (14 days including Friday ). At 10 pm on Friday , the games on self-assign for Friday will show up.

Saturday's window ends on a Friday. You will see games that are on self-assign from Saturday to Friday (14 days including Saturday ). At 10 pm on Saturday , the games on self-assign for Saturday will show up.

1. Should you see a list of available games? When you go to Aribter's self-assign page, you may or not see a list of games to choose from. You won't see a list if:

   1. your aren't marked as Ready To Officiate

   2. you have already assigned yourself games using self assign that day (1 self assign set per day, reset after 10 pm that evening)

   3. you have exceeded the maximum number of games for the week (rolling over every day)

   4. there aren't any games that match your ranking level for the current date window (the next 14 days)

   5. there aren't any games schedule for the rolling window (ie. during the Christmas break there aren't any games scheduled)

2. I've logged on multiple days now and I haven't seen any games.

There are lots of reasons for this. Here are a few things to check:

2. 2. 1. Check your calendar to see if you have exceeded the weekly (7 day) limit.

      2. Make sure you aren't blocked on the days at the end of your 7 day, weekly window.

      3. How many days are your scheduled to referee? Are there games available on the days you don't have games? This can be a problem if you have games Monday to Friday and are looking for games that might fall  on Saturday, Sunday and Holiday Mondays.

3. I accepted or self assigned some games today, before 10 pm. I signed on after 10pm and I don't see any games for me to assign using self assign.

   1. there are no scheduled games that day

   2. the games for the 14th day would be the only new games you would see

   3. you may have exceeded your weekly number of games that you could officiate for the next 7 days

   4. you have blocked  the full day on the new day

   5. you have blocked the time of day when all the new games are available (f you block yourself from 9am to 5 pm, the earliest game you can assign yourself to would be 5:01 pm. No games before 5:01 pm would appear in the list. If you want to referee starting at 5pm, you need to block yourself to 4:59pm.

   6. you ranking level might be to low for all the scheduled games that day

4. There were a bunch of games in my self assign list. I myself for an assignment. All the other games that were on the list are gone, there isn't a list showing.

   1. You can only assign yourself one set of games per day. When you chose an assignment that was your one assignment choice for the day. You can't assign yourself more games until 10 pm.

5. My buddy has a bunch of games in their list, but I don't see any games to choose from.

   1. your aren't marked as Ready To Officiate

   2. your ranking may be a different level that your buddy's ranking level and there aren't any games that match your ranking level for the current date window (the next 14 days)

   3. between the time your buddy looked at his list, the games you have in common were taken

   4. you have already games assigned either by using self assign (1 self assign set per day, reset after 10 pm that evening) or by the assigner

   5. you have exceeded the maximum number of games for the week and your buddy hasn't (rolling over every day)

1. Daily Reset: 10 pm local time (at reset you set games for the next range window of 14 days)

2. Date Range Window: 14 days rolling over at the daily reset

3. Number of Self Assign sets per day: 1 self assign activity per day (You can only pick one set of games each day. Once you have chosen games that day, you can not pick any other ones until 10 pm when the daily reset happens)

4. Quota of games per day:  1 There is a quota on the number of games you can self assign yourself on any given day. If you games for that day, no more games will appear. For example if you self assign or Ryley assigns you games for October 1, you will not see any more games appear in self assign for October 1 even if there are games with open slots. Even thought the quota is 1, you can still self assign yourself more than 1 game as long as they are in the same set. For example if you see a set of 3 games available, you can self assign yourself to the 3 games. But you can't come back tomorrow and assign yourself more games for the same day.

5. Number of Games for the next 7 days: 30 games via self -assign and assigned by assigner, more if you ask the assigner to work on specific days and times. You can only be assigned 30 games per 7 day period. If you have more than 30 games for the 7 day period, you won't have any games for that 7 day period show up i self assign. If after reset the assigned count is less than 30 days and there are eligiible games for you to assign yourself too, the games will appear in the self assign list.

1. Games Ranking Levels: Available from the Performance Director

2. Your Ranking: Available from the Performance Director

1) Check the portal for what is going on

- the News page is your friend to see what games have been added lately

- the Important Dates pages are there for you to see what is happening with league play and tournaments

2) No games are showing for me in arbiter checklist

1) Check that you are marked as Ready to Officiate

2) Check if you are blocked during the next 14 days

3) Have I taken any games today

- you can only assign yourself 1 set of games each 24 hour period

- today starts at 10 pm the previous night

- If I go into Arbiter on Nov 21 at 10:01 pm, you won't see any games until 10:00pm on Nov 22. If I go into Arbiter on Nov 22 at 12:01 am, you won't see any games for self-assign.

4) Check which leagues or tournament are playing that day.

- Use the portal to see which days leagues are likely to play and how buys they may be that day. Maybe the leagues you are interested in aren't playing that day. This is a trend analysis not an actual date analysis.

- Use the portal to see if there are tournaments scheudled.

5) Am I eligible to referee games for the levels of games that should be available.

- Use the portal to see what levels I can referee.

- Then check the availability chart showing when leagues play.

- Or check the important dates pages to see what tournaments and leagues have games scheduled

6) Have I exceeded my weekly quota of games.

- You can only self-assign yourself 20 games in the next 7 days.

- if there is still 3 days before your games, talk to the Assignor to get out of the games. The games will go back on self-assign and he will find someone to assign to those games.

- What if its less than 3 days, try to find someone. How?

- try your referee friends

- try and use discord

Discord

- this is an additional method of trying to find someone to fill in for you when you can't referee your games

- discord is a free app than can be installed on your phone, tablets, and computers

- discord is also a server that you connect to to leave messages (posts)

- To send a I Need Help message, you connect to the server

- go to the games coverage channel and find the needing-game-coverage forum

- put a message in there with the game details and possibly how they can contact you

- post it

- a message is pushed to the people who have connected to discord previously

- those people will see the contents of your message

- hopefully someone on discord will be able to help you out

- when you find someone, make sure the Assignor knows (and it doesn't hurt to post another message saying that you found someone)

- Disclaimer: If the game is in the next 3 days, you still have a responsibility to make sure your games are covered

Discord is being used to announce when new games have been added to Arbiter's self-assign feature. If the games fall into the current window, they will be available immediately. If the games fall outside the current window, they will appear at 10pm on the first day of the window.