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Originally Posted by EricH
I highly suggest volunteering to referee. I know for a fact that there's a supplement illustrating various concepts--two or three, actually--and "how to call the game". It's pretty extensive over the more common/nasty fouls. And then there's the whole "referees as scorekeepers", which I think I've expressed my opinion on. Be a lot easier if the refs could just call fouls.
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I'd love to volunteer as a referee and other KV positions as much as possible but this year proved to have too many things going against me to go out and try that stuff. I did figure that referees had a supplement to communicate to them from the GDC what the intents are behind the rules and when a subjective decision needs to make its way into an objective penalty. I'm not really behind referees keeping score this year, but they should be tracking possessions. Scorekeepers can easily track obvious scoring objectives being completed: high/low goal, truss/catch, and dead ball/ended cycle. Referees are almost required to track possessions since a portion of them are judgement calls. Not like that is ideal, but this game makes it difficult to take possession calls away from the referees when awarding them for assists but still have them call fouls for possession of the opponent's ball.