ArbiterSports is the sports officiating software company of the National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

, and is a venture between two NCAA subsidiaries, Arbiter LLC and eOfficials LLC. The company is based in Sandy, Utah.

History

The Arbiter assigning system was created in 1984 by Advanced Business Technology, at the request of the Utah High School Activities Association

Utah High School Activities Association

The Utah High School Activities Association is an organization of 131 high schools in the U.S. state of Utah that sponsor athletic activities in 25 sports and activities. More than 50,000 students compete annually in approximately 25,000 competitions among UHSAA member schools...

, who hired ABT to build an computerized method of assigning sports officials to matches and managing their assignments. Known the as TheArbiter, the software was originally released on the MS DOS platform, then for Microsoft Windows in 1997. Arbiter was released as a web application in 2003, known as TheArbiter.NET.

Acquisition by the NCAA

Arbiter was acquired by the NCAA in September 2008. The NCAA said their purpose in the acquisition, along with their acquisition of eOfficials LLC the same month, was to improve the quality and consistency of officiating at all levels of play.

External links

• NCAA
• ArbiterSports official webpage