The Arbiter is a web-based online assignment management system.  It enables us to mange our administrative details more efficiently and gives us more time to assign and to deal with individual referees. It gives you realtime visibility of your assignments and provides summary reports of games you work each season.

For referees who don’t have internet access, we will still communicate by phone and mail.

Arbiter does not do the assigning -- we do. Arbiter's job is to notify you that we've picked out some games for you or that there are changes to your games.  You accept or decline assignments in Arbiter -- or you call us and we talk.

You will receive or have received an invitation to sign on to the system, the Arbiter "welcome" email.  The invitation tells you how to sign on and what to use for your initial password.   

You need to join both the Deplitch group and the Houston group.

Once you are in the system, you no longer have to tell us about changes in phone numbers, emails, etc.  You have direct access to your personal information and can keep it up to date as needed

You can also keep your availability up to date on a realtime basis.  Arbiter allows you to "block" your availability by indicating days and times that you are not available.  It also allows you to "attach" yourself to a team so you can't be assigned when it's playing.

 If you wished to be assigned by calling us on a week-to-week basis, you need not block availability at all.  You should call us early in the week you want to be assigned to get the best choice of games.

Check out the tutorial at ARBITER TUTORIAL to get an overview of how it works.