I have a pretty detailed spreadsheet of every game I've ever done, sanctioned and unsanctioned. I have columns for date, day of week, venue, city, county, state, time, gender, age, competition, teams, position, fee, assignor, crew members and their state of registration, assessor/evaluator and their state of registration, miles traveled to the game, and whether or not I've been paid for that game. Might be overkill, but in this case, too much information definitely isn't a bad thing. How do you guys track your assignments?
I used to build MS Access databases with all of my games. Unfortunately when I switched to a Mac, that was useless. Then went to Excel but didn't update enough. Now I am trying to figure how to organize my new data.
MS Excel sheet that I converted to google docs. I can update anywhere on any computer. I track about the same stuff that the OP does.
I used to track Date, Time, Location, League, Age, Teams, Score, Fee in a manual log book. I no longer track at all. All I do is put all assignments in my Lotus Notes work calendar, and I have that synced to my Google Calendar (I invite my google id to the meeting) so my wife can see my schedule.
Excel as well with most the same info. Got an email from one of my assigners last night with a list of games at his field for the week and he had me down for a game I didn't have logged. I questioned him on it and told him I wasn't available. He was able to cover the game, but it still bugs me as to what happened. I'm usually spot-on on my spreadsheet. I sure does keep me organized as to where I'm going each night. Mark.
Just the simple calendar on my iPhone with the basic info. 80% of my appointments are done online, which contains all the info should I ever need it. The other 20% are via email. And if I'm CR, I keep the game sheets as an additional backup.
I use my iphone, too. At least just to keep on time and to know who's playing and where. If I have a question, I can always acces the assigning system on my phone if I'm not at home. The same system allows me to export an excel spreadsheet with pretty much whatever information I need. Teams, location, game fee, partners, etc. I do that at tax time. I usually ref in same general area, so many of my locations are the same. I just fill in the distances from Google Maps.
I don't keep track. I referee the game and move on. My assignments are sent via email and I highlight them as important and that is all. Once I file my report online I discard the paper reports.
I keep track on a Google Drive spreadsheet that is in the exact same format as the one my SRC uses. If/when I ever upgrade it should be as easy as just emailing them a copy.
I use my iPhone for ArbiterMobile & iCal ( the "Supreme Law of the Family" everyone is sync'd to) so I get where I have to be on time. The more automation the better, IMHO. Every intermediate step in documentation is one more opportunity for a fail along the way. Since our SRA & SCSOA uses Arbiter, I end up making a PDF of the year's assignments from that, grab the lil black books for the unaffiliateds, my vehicle log on iPhone to get all the tax related crap I need. My ideal plan was to copy and paste the stuff from Arbiter into an Excel/GoogleDocs spreadsheet but after the first time I did that a few years back I never got around to that again. It's time consuming, these tax things! I guess I really do need an "app for that" or something. I have an app developer class coming up. Maybe I'll invent one and let you guys know.
I don't keep track as well. Export assignments into Outlook which sync's to the family calendar. I'm already a State 5, so no need to keep track of game count any longer
Hmmm! They may want to know the number when they introduce you to the Hall of Fame, won't they? Spreadsheet that is listed here - http://bit.ly/HsCDnk, interfaced both directions with iCal works for my sked. There are links to rosters of those teams and also the referee report in the spreadsheet on local machine.
I go low tec. Family calendar on the kitchen wall. With 3 refs in the house it's the one place to see where we all have to go. Try to keep a simple spread sheet for game counts. Since I won't be upgrading to five, motivation dropped for that.
On gameofficials (and presumably other scheduling sites) you can run a report of your games, then simply cut and paste that right into an Excel spreadsheet.