Showing posts with label guides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guides. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Updates!
I've just finished updating two of my most popular posts:
Quick Guide to ALL the Roller Derby Officiating Positions - Updated to reflect the January 2015 ruleset and officiating standard practices.
Penalty code & verbal cue cheat sheet - Updated to reflect the January 2015 ruleset and verbal cues.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Penalty code & verbal cue cheat sheet
[Updated May 19, 2015 to make the formatting more consistent and align with the January 2015 ruleset and its associated officiating documents.]
After a referee calls a penalty during a roller derby bout, the penalty is recorded by a penalty tracker, and then (typically) written on a publicly visible whiteboard (see my quick guide to all the roller derby officiating positions if you don't know what those terms mean).
Since writing down the full names of each penalty would be cumbersome, each penalty has a single-letter code associated with it. Penalty trackers, penalty wranglers, whiteboard staff, all referees, and penalty-box NSOs should ideally be familiar with these codes, so they can quickly write down or interpret written penalty information. The penalty codes can be found in the WFTDA Statistics package's penalty tracker paperwork.
In addition to a penalty code, each penalty in the WFTDA ruleset has a verbal cue associated with it; referees are required to use the appropriate verbal cue when calling the penalty. To see the list of verbal cues, head to the WFTDA Officiating page (or just to the verbal cues document itself). Complicating matters, many penalty classes (e.g., direction of game play) have multiple verbal cues but are recorded as a single penalty code ("C", in the case of all four direction of game play verbal cues).
So, it's helpful to have a cheat sheet that lists all of the verbal cues along with their penalty codes. I made one for myself a while ago and taped it to all my clipboards; it's probably one of my most frequently requested documents. So, here it is:
After a referee calls a penalty during a roller derby bout, the penalty is recorded by a penalty tracker, and then (typically) written on a publicly visible whiteboard (see my quick guide to all the roller derby officiating positions if you don't know what those terms mean).
Since writing down the full names of each penalty would be cumbersome, each penalty has a single-letter code associated with it. Penalty trackers, penalty wranglers, whiteboard staff, all referees, and penalty-box NSOs should ideally be familiar with these codes, so they can quickly write down or interpret written penalty information. The penalty codes can be found in the WFTDA Statistics package's penalty tracker paperwork.
In addition to a penalty code, each penalty in the WFTDA ruleset has a verbal cue associated with it; referees are required to use the appropriate verbal cue when calling the penalty. To see the list of verbal cues, head to the WFTDA Officiating page (or just to the verbal cues document itself). Complicating matters, many penalty classes (e.g., direction of game play) have multiple verbal cues but are recorded as a single penalty code ("C", in the case of all four direction of game play verbal cues).
So, it's helpful to have a cheat sheet that lists all of the verbal cues along with their penalty codes. I made one for myself a while ago and taped it to all my clipboards; it's probably one of my most frequently requested documents. So, here it is:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)