Look Before You Leap! NCSL is once again offering Flex Rescheduling to allow clubs to control their schedules and to better accommodate the needs of their members. The instructions are set forth below, but before getting there, please understand why rescheduling games can be a bad idea. Mind the Gap We work very hard before the season to stack games together to the greatest extent that coaching conflicts and field permits allow. Stacked games are more attractive to referees, who do not want to sit idle at a field when they could be working elsewhere. In the example below, if the Game 2 teams move their game from 11 am to 7 pm, two large gaps are created, and none of the clubs three games are likely to have referees. If you move using Flex Rescheduling, please remember to Mind the Gaps. One is the Loneliest Number Just like gaps, solo games are very unattractive to referees. No referee wants to drive a long distance for a single game. It’s not economical. Accordingly, those games tend not to get covered, and nobody is happy about that. If you move games using Flex Rescheduling, please do everything possible to match them up with another game in your club schedule on the same field. End of the Line The final point about Flex Rescheduling is that rescheduled games are the last ones to be assigned to referees. We give the full league schedule to our assignors weeks before the season begins, and they immediately begin the assigning process. Rescheduled games are necessarily placed in the back of the line, where they wait until they can be assigned. That means they have a lower likelihood of coverage than other games. Bottom line: Unless you must reschedule, please leave the games where they are.
Look Before You Leap! NCSL is once again offering Flex Rescheduling to allow clubs to control their schedules and to better accommodate the needs of their members. The instructions are set forth below, but before getting there, please understand why rescheduling games can be a bad idea. Mind the Gap We work very hard before the season to stack games together to the greatest extent that coaching conflicts and field permits allow. Stacked games are more attractive to referees, who do not want to sit idle at a field when they could be working elsewhere. In the example below, if the Game 2 teams move their game from 11 am to 7 pm, two large gaps are created, and none of the clubs three games are likely to have referees. If you move using Flex Rescheduling, please remember to Mind the Gaps. One is the Loneliest Number Just like gaps, solo games are very unattractive to referees. No referee wants to drive a long distance for a single game. It’s not economical. Accordingly, those games tend not to get covered, and nobody is happy about that. If you move games using Flex Rescheduling, please do everything possible to match them up with another game in your club schedule on the same field. End of the Line The final point about Flex Rescheduling is that rescheduled games are the last ones to be assigned to referees. We give the full league schedule to our assignors weeks before the season begins, and they immediately begin the assigning process. Rescheduled games are necessarily placed in the back of the line, where they wait until they can be assigned. That means they have a lower likelihood of coverage than other games. Bottom line: Unless you must reschedule, please leave the games where they are.
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