Grading the Replacement Officials

[FredFan7]

We have our grading system during the regular system for grading an officiating crew here on BTFS.

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Should we use that grading system for replacements?

[mike]

I do not believe that grading in the same manner is practicable

1) You have a lot of people here who believe the replacement officials are "scabs" and that may cloud assessment

2) The league is essentially having 120 rookies. Even good officials have struggled out of the gate. This will be more pronounced because these "rookies" are coming from low level college and High School ranks because the NFL could not use Division 1 FBS officials that they may have been targeting as future replacements when some of the more senior officials retire

3) The only experience many of these officials have on the field with each other are preseason games. With the regular officials, even though crews change yearly, most officials have worked at some point with the majority of the other officials on their crew

[Deleted]

I agree with Mike's #1. If we used the usual grading system with these replacements, I'd find it very difficult to be fair, as a good friend of a couple of the locked-out officials.

[Deleted]

If we used the regular scale, I'd be giving out a lot of Gs.

[JAYJAYSTRIPES]

I don't think anyone, given the climate out there could put their feelings towards the replacement officials aside, and based on what we've seen as a performance thus far, it would be very difficult to grade any of these people subjectively.
Plus how could you put a name with the face with strictly a number and no position on the shirt....like whose the linesman vs. line judge; field vs. side judge. We know nothing about these people, so sujectivity would go out the window.