The Performance of Basketball Referees in Leading Matches: Examined Aspect of Decision Making, Game Management, and Mechanics Court

Abstract The growth of basketball has been extended to various regions and every time there must be changes in any aspect, including the game's rules. Referees are a very important supporting element in a basketball competition because the game would not work if there were no referees. The referee is assigned to guide and control the game from beginning to end following the regulations that apply. Consistency is important for the referee in leading a game. Factors that influence referees when making decisions are grouped into four topics; accuracy of errors, rules, professionalism, and ideal decision-making. When a referee is evaluated, it requires a tool to evaluate and a person to evaluate. For this reason, the right evaluation tools and potential evaluators are needed and master the evaluation material for the performance of basketball referees, including decision-making (play calling), game management, and court mechanics. The method used in this study is the aggregation of performance evaluation or composite assessment that combines play calling to get the percentage of decision-making accuracy of decision making made by the referee in leading the match in this case related to fouls and violations, for game management of the data is taken from the performance assessment by the game management assessment procedure, while for data from the mechanic court is taken from the referee's movement procedure (three procedure officiating) during the game. The three evaluation assessment results were combined into one so that the value of each referee who led the match was obtained, the average value of each instrument, the total value of all referees, and the average. In this study, the results obtained from play calling the average of the total value of the referee is 91.33, the average result of the total value of game management is 89.63, while the average result of the total value of the mechanic court is 89.33 so that the total result of the average of the three instruments is 90.10. From this, it can be concluded that the evaluation of the performance of the basketball referee who served in the Indonesia Basketball League Season 2023-2024 is included in the excellent category.