Yes. High schools will be expected to enter varsity contests, varsity officials contracts and into the Arbiter. A school can continue to use another scheduling vendor, but the OHSAA will expect the minimum information to be entered into Arbiter. There is a process for uploading schedules from an excel spreadsheet for schools that choose to use another scheduling vendor.
- Varsity game contracts
- Varsity officials contracts
ArbiterGame is free to OHSAA member high schools. Middle schools that want or require an account can purchase ArbiterGame for a reduced annual fee of $110.
There is no limit to the number of people a school can have on their ArbiterGame account.
There is usually a cost associated with having more than one user per account but the Arbiter is waiving this fee for OHSAA member schools.
Yes, but it is highly discouraged. This can be done and will work best if the high school and junior high have the same address but can be problematic if they do not. Here are some things to consider when deciding whether to combine high school and junior high events on one account. Opponents and spectators of junior high events will have a more difficult time finding the junior high events on the public scheduling interface (ArbiterLive). In addition, when your parents go to find the games listed in ArbiterLive they will have to know to search for the high school rather than the middle school to find their events and “Follow” the teams for which they want the schedule. In other states some schools combine high school and junior high accounts. However, this resulted in many more inquiries to their athletic department from opponents and fans, so they purchased a middle school account. Ultimately the decision is up to each high school.
The OHSAA has negotiated a reduced cost for member junior high schools that want or require an account. This reduced cost is $175 per year. The normal costs for a junior high account is approximately $225 per year and depends on the number of sports per school.
myOHSAA and ArbiterGame are integrated so that some of the data entered in the Arbiter will be available for what is needed in myOHSAA. This includes the contest officials so they can be rated in myOHSAA.
Yes, but not for scheduling events or contest officials. Scheduling is done in ArbiterSports for all events and levels of play.
Schools will still use myOHSAA to:
- Maintain school directory information including administration and coaches
-OHSAA board resolution cards
- OHSAA participation card
- OHSAA tournament entry
- Rating of contest officials
- Voting for OHSAA tournament officials
- Pre-Season Parent Meetings
No, schools choosing to use other scheduling software may continue to do so, but will need to meet the minimum use requirements in ArbiterGame. ArbiterGame is the software that the OHSAA has partnered with to provide the most comprehensive game and official scheduling system.
Yes. Using the Arbiter template, data can be loaded from your third party vendor into the template. This template can then be uploaded into ArbiterGame or ArbiterOne. However, uploads of data can cause errors if the data points do not match exactly. This can result in more time being spent to correct the errors than entering each event individually. Arbiter has a smart scheduler feature that allows for multi-level events to be entered at the same time, thus reducing the time involved with re-entry. In addition, entering events directly into Arbiter is a great way to learn the system and will reduce the number of errors. For these reasons, the OHSAA and Arbiter recommend that schools enter their events directly into Arbiter instead of using the upload feature. However, the decision is to re-enter or upload is up to each individual school.
If an assigner has already entered a game, it may appear twice. If the data points do not match, the details for the event may not be uploaded correctly. For these reasons, the OHSAA and Arbiter recommend that schools enter their events directly into Arbiter instead of using the upload feature. However, the decision is to re-enter or upload is up to each individual school.
ArbiterSports' Technical Support is available from 8 am – 9 pm Monday through Thursday; 8 am – 7 pm on Friday, and 10 am – 4 pm on Saturday. These times are Eastern Time.
Yes, for those schools with more than one team (EX: JV-Red and JV-Black) at the same level. Schools can designate a team name.
Schools, officiating assigners and league commissioners can all create events. Schools can work with these persons to determine who will create events. This is one of the best features of the Arbiter as it allows this workload to be shared.
This question is best answered by establishing guidelines for what events will be entered, how they will be entered and by whom they will be entered as a collective agreement with the other schools in your league, your league scheduler and officiating assigners. Ideally, each school or assigner would enter the home events. This will then populate all the away league events too. That just leaves the non-conference events for the school to enter.
Game contracts are sent and accepted electronically to any school that uses ArbiterGame software. The opponent can be an Ohio school or out-of-state as their location does not matter as long as they use ArbiterGame. For any opponent that does not use ArbiterGame, the game contract can be created and saved through ArbiterGame by the OHSAA school and then emailed to the opponent. Once the signed contract is returned, the OHSAA school can accept the game contract so that the contract icon will turn green and the Athletic Director knows that everything is set and ready to go for that event.
Yes, ArbiterGame can be used for non-athletic events and scheduling. Each event has the option to make it public or non-public. Public events show on the school's ArbiterLive schedules. This feature can provide a more comprehensive facilities management tool.
Arbiter is currently working on an iCal feed. This feature has been requested by many schools across the country, but Arbiter does not have an expected time for this feed to be completed. However, in the meantime through the reports area, schedules can be printed in many different formats that can be integrated in calendaring software. These report formats are XML, CSV, Excel, Word, PDF, MHTML and Tiff.
Yes, ArbiterGame can manage your facilities. In addition, ArbiterSports and SchoolDude have partnered to offer a comprehensive facilities management program that includes automated controls of lighting, AC/heating and other facilities systems.
Yes, ArbiterGame allows schools to request and track transportation for all events. In addition, ArbiterGame interfaces with SchoolDude and their transportation software to provide a comprehensive district-wide management of transportation.
Several reports are available through Arbiter.
- Schedules (master, all events, games with officials, game contracts, by sport or transportation)
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- Teams (schedule and roster)
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- Opponents (schedule, contacts and team rosters)
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- Students (student export, student list, awards by student, awards by team and eligibility)
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- Financial (fees by sport)
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Yes, rosters of student-athletes can be entered into ArbiterGame. The tools available through the rosters can track lots of student information from the day they begin classes to the day they graduate. ArbiterGame can also track and print awards for these student-athletes.