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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5341224, member: 13453"] Seems appropriate to (re-)up this: [URL='https://www.sbnation.com/2025/1/3/24330571/wnba-officiating-referees-womens-basketball-cheryl-reeve-liberty-lynx-caitlin-clark-monty-mccutchen']How WNBA referees are scouted, trained, and held accountable, explained | SB Nation[/URL] Gist to current events: Institutionalized [URL='https://www.wavy.com/sports/ap-will-the-wnba-respond-to-cheryl-reeves-officiating-rant/']deja vu.[/URL] It’s[URL='https://www.wavy.com/sports/ap-will-the-wnba-respond-to-cheryl-reeves-officiating-rant/'] [/URL]more of the same unless the WNBA becomes nimble (“Competition Committee” and “Department of Refereeing”) in responding to player and team “innovations” of “pushing boundaries” in “big picture … trends”. Basically, it is a staring contest. The Competition Committee approves rules changes [I]less frequently than desired[/I] and the Department of Refereeing merely implements &1 &2 them. I don’t know why the Committee can’t legislate guiding principles with a grant of in-season legislating authority on [I]certain types[/I] of rules, subject to a veto, and end-season formal ratifying review of in-season interim rules. Then there’s the important issue of referee compensation system so the fines system &2 can have a better punitive effect. One gets a sense that the current system (with automatic punishments against dissenters) immunizes the league and its officials from the “noise” of criticism. The officials interviewed casually attribute the “noise” to (uninformed) expanded eyeballs. &1 Referee Engagement Performance System (REPS). &2 Currently only for misapplication of rules, not “typical blown calls”. [/QUOTE]

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