Re: miller field times

[Kristina Festa]

(Adding Charlie and Uttam to this thread).
Hi Kent,
The buffer was put in place last year because Charlie had pointed out that there was a conflict between Law 7 (which is directly addressed in one of the questions in the regional exam) and the region (area?) directive not to add time to games due to scheduling. Honoring Law 7 with short buffers between games was causing games to overrun their time slots. It was especially a problem in U8 games, but was also appearing at Miller last season. The buffer was put in place to alleviate that issue.

Charlie & Uttam, do you have anything to add?
Hope this helps,
Kristina

Kristina Festa
Regional Referee Administrator
AYSO Region 64, Area 2J
R...@ayso64.org

> On Sep 5, 2015, at 11:10 PM, Kent Bossange <Ke...@Bossange.com> wrote:
>
> You mean after just two games you need another 30 minutes to "catch up".
> No other region needs that, and, it means your refs are now out of synch for
> any afternoon games on other fields. Are you sure your region wants this?
>
> Kent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rosie Go [mailto:rosi...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2015 11:04 PM
> To: Kent Bossange
> Subject: Re: miller field times
>
> 9, 10:30, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30.
> I forgot to fix it on the version you sent out.
> sorry.
> (the referees request a catch up time, over run times were too much)
>
>> On Sep 5, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Kent Bossange <Ke...@bossange.com> wrote:
>>
>> That is what the time slots are set for at Miller West.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rosie Go [mailto:rosi...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 5:33 PM
>> To: Kent Bossange
>> Subject: miller field times
>>
>> kent:
>> the referees find complaints at miller. we need the time slots to be
>> 9, 10:30, 12:30, 2:00 and 3:30(if needed) we Must have the buffer.
>> thanks
>> rosie
>
>

[Charles Roxlo]

All,

Here are my thoughts.

Kent is right that 90 minutes is enough time to complete a U14 game,
even with the full 10 minutes halftime and the very rare 5 minutes of
stoppage time (total for both halves).

We do sometimes have trouble staying on time at Miller West.

I believe this is due to three factors.
1. Not starting on time due to team availability. If one team is only
half present at kickoff time, we wait 10 minutes. The Evergreen teams
used to be particularly bad for this.
2. Schedule confusion. Sometimes we have three teams showing up for a
game, or just one. This requires sorting-out.
3. Not enough experienced referees to perform inspection and coin-toss
before the prior game finishes.

Any of these issues will put the whole day behind, but they are all
fixable with administrative effort.

I think that we will have more referees this season :-)

Thanks,
Charlie