Imagine playing 9 games in 11 days.

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9 different cities. You stay in the court too.

There is a basketball official that worked that schedule. That seems unacceptable. Thoughts?
 
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Most of the top tier refs do 75-90 games excluding the NCAA tournament. Depending on the logistics that doesn’t seem that unreasonable.
 
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yoyoyoyo said:
Most of the top tier refs do 75-90 games excluding the NCAA tournament. Depending on the logistics that doesn’t seem that unreasonable.
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The logistics are everything. I’m sure whoever did all those games wasn’t traveling very far in between at least 3 or 4 of them otherwise the beating he took between the games and the travel would be way too much by those last couple of games.
 
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Use to do that all the time when I worked for the mouse put the games on TV. Ref work day is a lot shorter. They are perfectly fine, just trying to make hay while the sun is shining.
 
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They seem to be in good shape. If the logistics work, fine.

There is a shortage of officials in all sports these days.
 
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I often wondered if officials watched Fast-forward replays of games to see where they could improve on bad calls, missed calls or no-calls. After reading this not sure they would have time and probably some have an attitude problem with this schedule and it's a tough gig no matter. A lot are older and the game is too fast for them without a hard travel navigating schedule plus most have their day jobs to deal with, so I expect the status quo to continue. Why anyone would want to do that job unless their shaving points and making a side hustle mint is beyond me.
 
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If officiating is your profession it doesn't seem too unreasonable. 2.5 hours of work at the game and let's say 6 hours of fly time to the next destination.
It seems like it'd be hard to be away from home that long, but it shouldn't effect their ability to do their job. Some refs are just terrible.
 
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GAVol said:
The logistics are everything. I’m sure whoever did all those games wasn’t traveling very far in between at least 3 or 4 of them otherwise the beating he took between the games and the travel would be way too much by those last couple of games.
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Exactly. I won’t say the league but I know a high level official well. They have the their schedules well in advance and the league coordinators work with them to make sure the logistics work the best they can. He has his flights, rental cars, hotels, etc basically booked for the entire season by the time he works his first game of the year.

People would be surprised that the NCAA tournament doesn’t pay well for those games. The benefit to the refs is it helps advance their pay grade tier for regular season games from then on if they work a tournament game, sweet sixteen, final four.
 
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I am sorry, but that is just called a work week for a successful business person

I offer an example from when I was in high school:

My dad was in Hong Kong on a business trip and I was the lead in a school play. He had to be in Taiwan a couple days later but flew home to watch me in between, then went back

I did not appreciate the effort at the time. Dad of the year
 
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