Terminology

The following Terms and Phrases should be considered as having the associated meanings when used in the context of this site. Note that you can retrieve any of these definitions anywhere on the site where you see a small gray question mark next to the Term by clicking on it.

Administrator

A User charged with the overall responsibility for the general operation of the Chapter's site and management of Site usage.

Adjudication

The procedures and hearings associated with a Committee reviewing a Misconduct Report to determine if the Card will be upheld or not. Adjudication also includes the determination of any penalties, suspensions, etc.

Assignment

As a noun, it identifies the relationship between a specific Match Position and a Referee. As a verb, it refers to the steps and actions necessary to create the relationship between a specific Match Position and a Referee.

Assignor

A User that has the responsibility to coordinate and facilitate the assignment of Referees to Matches

Audit

A database table containing a single entry for each significant action that takes place on the Site. Also used as a verb to indicate that a particular action will be recorded for future review and diagnosis

Authority

Identifies the Organization that sanctions a particular Match to be held. This might be a State Association, a local League, etc., but is ultimately the administrative body that organizes and tracks the competitions between the teams under it's guidance

Browser

A program operating in a Visitor's system somewhere on the Internet that has asked for a Page from a Server.

Chapter

Describes a collection of Referees that work as a group to provide coverage to Matches in a specific geographic area. NCRefs is the Chapter operating this Site.

Coach

An individual that participates in a Match in a non-Player capacity that is responsible for the Team's operation during the Match

Criteria

A specific combination of values associated with data elements that permits you to select a subset of entries that meet your needs.

Directory

An online, searchable list of the Site participants that make up the Chapter's constituents

Division

A specific group of teams within a League and Level that has a specific playing schedule during a specific period of time (e.g. season or tournament). A Division is typically based on a Team's competitive skill level (as in Division 1, 2, 3, etc.)

Field

A physical area at a Location where a scheduled Match will occur between two Teams.

League

A collection of Matches between Teams assigned to particular competitive Levels, Divisions, and rules by a single Organization.

Level

An administrative-based grouping of Teams within a League. The grouping could be age (for youth as in U15, U16), competitive level (as in Open, Over30), etc.

Location

A geographic place with a street address that contains one or more Fields.

Match

A scheduled competition between two Teams authorized by an Organization and officiated by a Referee

Match Report

The act of reporting completion of an Assignment by a Referee. The Match Report is the basis for collecting the results of a Match and is the basis for payment processing.

Misconduct Project

Notice

A short informational type message to a User about an activity that has occurred on the Site

Officer

A User that has been selected to serve on the Chapter's Board of Directors and represent the Chapter membership.

Option

An operational setting, value, or indication about how the Site operates.

Organization

A group that is responsible for organizing Teams into Leagues and/or Divisions and scheduling Matches between them.

Page

Represents the resulting HTML from a PHP Script's execution AND all the accompanying elements (.GIF, .JPG, .CSS, etc. files).

Each Page from each the Site has a URL, and an identifying Name.

Period

Used to describe a grouping of Matches and/or Accounting entries into a logical set of elements that constitutes a billing/payment date range for Organizations/Referees

Player

An individual that participates with a Team as an active participant in a sanctioned Match

Position

A reference to the general responsibilities a Referee accepts when receiving an Assignment. Typically, a Match might require the Positions named Ref (Center Official), AR1, AR2, and possibly a 4th (4th Official), completely dependent upon what the Organization has requested.

Profile

A reference to the set of data elements and information associated with a single User of the Site. This is where each User stores individualized information and indicates his/her preference for information publication in the Directory.

Ranking

a numeric value that establishes the expected complexity and/or difficulty level of a specific Match or a numeric value establishing the difficulty level a specific Referee has mastered.

Referee

Describes a User of the Site that is licensed to officiate at a sanctioned Match. USSF, NISOA, NFHS, etc. are organizations that license Referees

RidgeStar

The pseudonym used for the company responsible for designing, implementing, and providing professional operations support for North Chapter Soccer Referees Association.

RidgeStar is an operational Division of North Ridge Software, Inc., a privately held Washington State corporation (serving it's customers since 1982).

RMA

This WSYSA association issued number will be returned to you after they process your Risk Managment application. This will come in the form of a credit card sized white card.

If you have an expired RM# and it is recent, enter that number, but if it is more than 3 months expired don't.

If you do not have an RM#, can't find it, or it is expired by more than 3 months, then enter 5 zeros for your RM# on the date you mail or submit your Risk Managment application to your local youth Association.

RMExpiration

When your Risk Management Application is processed you will receive an expiration date with the RM number. Enter the expiration date into this field.

If you have just submitted your application there will be a 6-8 week processing delay. To allow you to continue to signup for and do games, enter the date you mailed it or the date you gave it to your local youth association for processing.

Rule

A specific condition associated with SelfAssign, Turnback, etc. that must be true in order for the action requested to continue.

E.G. The "Available" Rule verifies that the Position being requested is not already assigned to another Referee.

Segment

A named portion of the Site that collects functions and pages related to a specific Role in a common portion of the Site.

SelfAssign

The actions a Referee takes to get the Site to determine if s/he is eligible for a specific Assignment. If eligible, the Referee can cause the Site to complete the Assignment (essentially, permitting the Referee to assign himself/herself the Assignment).

Server

Identifies a physical RidgeStar system operating a copy of the Apache HTTP Daemon that responds to Internet based requests for service.

Session

Defined by PHP. Essentially, uniquely identifies a single Browser's interaction with a single PHP based Site.

Site

The specific combination of files containing script (PHP) and graphics (JPG, GIF) available through the HTTP protocol that are combined to meet the North Chapter Soccer Referees Association requirements and is available on the Web at NCRefs.org

SiteManager

The identified User that acts as the Webmaster for the Site and as the primary Point of Contact with RidgeStar with respect to Site operations.

SiteName

The unique combination of personal data elements that uniquely identifies a single User to the Site. For NCRefs this is your First and Last Name

Surface

Is a term used to describe the type of covering that is on the Field. "Grass" and "Sand" should be obvious. "Turf" represents a smooth artificial surface, whereas "RealTurf" represents the artificial material that simulates grass (incuding the blades of grass) that has become more popular recently.

System

Used to describe the basic operating system enviroment of a Visitor, Browser, or Server.

Team

A collection of Players that compete together in a League against other Teams

Term

A word or series of words that represents a specific element, activity, role, action, etc. when used in the context of the Site.

Text Format

You can control how the information you enter is displayed by using one or more of the following elements surrounded by brackets [ or ] within the text string you enter:See Reference: Tools-Text Format for more information.

Time

Typically used to indicate a specific Time of Day (local time zone). When used in a Criteria box, "Morning" means between 12:01am and 11:59am, "Midday" means 10:00am to 4:00pm, "Afternoon" means 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and "Evening" means 5:01pm to 11:59pm

Turnback

The act of returning a current Referee Assignment to the pool of available Positions for other Referees to assign themselves to.

User

A term used to describe an individual person that is authorized to logon to the Site and interact with the system in one or more roles (as a Referee, Chapter Officer, Committee member, Authority representative, etc.).

Visitor

A general term used to describe a single Internet user somewhere using a program (usually a Browser) to access a Site page on a RidgeStar Server.