MissedUmpiring’s and Walkover Penalties Please Share this with your teammatesImmediately

All fines have to be paid within 3 days of the offense elsethe team will forfeit their next game. Team will not be allowed to continuefurther in the tournament until they pay the fine.

Playoff missed umpiring penalty per team $150 fine. (If penalties are not paid, Teams will not be allowed to participate in any future games)

Common Teams Missed UmpiringPenalties Per Season

Total Four umpiring’s missed by common teams in a season both common teams will be suspended from the league

In a DCL Calendar Year Starting every Spring season and Ending Fall season if any team [which doesn’t have any common teams] misses 4 umpirings in a whole year, the team will be suspended from the League.

In a DCL Calendar Year Starting every Spring season and Ending Fall season if a team [which has common teams] misses 5 umpiring in total by both the teams in a whole year both the team will be suspended from the League.

Walk Over Rules for a Calendar Year by Single team or Common teams: Walkover Penalties $200 per walkover must be paid immediately.

Single Team: Two Walkovers per Calendar Year the team will be suspended from the league

Common Teams: If a total of three Walkovers by both or any one team, both teams will be suspended from the league

Rent-An-Umpire

***Teams must send their own umpires from their team roaster only, no third-party rental will be entertained, if found and proved, umpiring team will be penalized according to missed umpiring penalties.***

Note: Please send an email to dclumpires@gmail.com ONLY.For Rental umpires request please do NOT send emails to dlclmgmt@gmail.com

(This is not amoney-making business, this is a genuine way of helping the teams to find anumpire)

Become a member of DCL Official FacebookGroup. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dallascricket/

Rental Umpire Prices:

Any umpiring requestsmade after Wednesday 12:00 PM will not be processed.Final List of Assigned Rental Umpires will be posted on DCL Official FacebookGroup Page on Thursday after 12 PM for that respective Week. 

Contact email: dclumpires@gmail.com

Rates for T20 : DCL (Tape Ball)/ DLCL (Leather Ball)

Rates for DLCL 30 Overs

Rates for DLCL 40 Overs

For Lewisville ground rentalrequest, we had added $10 to cover parking charges for umpires. Assignedumpires need to carry cash as parks don’t accept credit card

Process to request a Rent-An-Umpire:

Step 1) Make the Payment to DCL

Use the above information to calculate theumpiring fees according to the timings and the grounds mentioned.

Payment Option 1: Using your teams login/password ondcl or dlcl websites (Without the payment DCL will not look for anumpire). 

Payment Option 2: If you have paypal account, then youcan pay to dclbank@gmail.com

Step 2) Once the payment is made and an email is sent to  dclumpires@gmail.com

See the SampleRequest below

Date: 2/14/2015
Time: 12 pm to 4 pm
Game Type: DLCL (Leather Ball)
Game Between: Team‘A’ Vs Team ‘B’
Ground: Russell Creek G5 
Which Team is Requesting: TeamZ
Umpiring Request: Certified
Amount Paid: $42
Request Made on: Month,Date before 5pm Wednesday

Payment Made By: Paypalemail ID of the Payer

Step 3) We will then go ahead and try to find an umpire foryour request. Make sure to check FB post on Thursday to find out if umpireassignment was successful. If the assignment says “Pending” meansthat umpires was not found and team should be prepared to fulfill the umpiringduty. If teams fail to do so, they will be penalized and docked 2 points.

RefundPolicy:

No refunds will beprocessed if the game is called off due to bad weather/Walkover or any otherreason once an umpiring request is made except if DCL Management isunable to find rental umpire for requesting team.

Rent-a-Umpire FQA’s:

Question: Once a Rent-An-Umpire request is made,can it be withdrawn? Will the money be fully refunded?

Answer: ABSOLUTELY NOT. You cannot withdraw your request. We want theteams to use DCL Rent-An-Umpire as a last option. Once all your options areexhausted then only, please submit your Rent-An-Umpire Request to DCL. We don’twant to spend any time looking into your request or work on any type of refundsas it is time consuming. Once a request is made to DCL [dclumpires] and theRental umpiring fees are paid DCL will only refund the amount if we are unableto find any umpires for your team.  We are just trying to help teams findrental umpires as a courtesy. 

Rent-An-Umpire should always be the last option.Ideally no teams / individual should Rent-An-Umpire. Every team should mandatetheir teammates and should be very clear with them when they join the teamabout umpiring assignments. As soon as the complete schedule ispublished/released by DCL Management for the season, the Team Captain/ViceCaptain/Manager should assign their teammates the umpiring assignments. If theyare not ready to do the umpiring the team Captain/Vice-Captain/Manager shouldask them to try the Rent-An-Umpire Option by making the payment to DCL [seedetails below on how to make the payment]

Question: If the game iscancelled due to walkover or Bad weather called off a day prior, will I getrefund.

Answer: ABSOLUTELY NOT. Once request is done andan umpire is found the refund cannot be requested. Teams are requested to useaccu-weather to determine if they need rental. Similarly, if walk over is givenby a team, umpiring fees will not be refunded.

Question: If theassigned umpire does not show up for game, will I get refund.

Answer: ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Question: I havepaid for a Rental Umpire request; will DCL guarantee that they will find us anUmpire?

Ans: Absolutely NOT !!! , DCL willhelp the teams in finding a Rental Umpire from its pool of Umpires depending ontheir availability. If DCL cannot find an umpire, a full refund will be issuedto the requesting teams once the refund request email sent by the requestingteam. It then becomes the requesting team’s responsibility to arrange for theirown umpire and fulfill their umpiring assignment. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS VERYIMPORTANT for TEAMS TO CHECK FB POST FOR APPROVED UMPIRES. It is not DCLRESPONSIBILITIES IF THE CAPTAIN/VICE CAPTAIN is out of town and don’t haveaccess to FB to check Friday 10 am that is not an excuse we want to hearespecially for the new teams

Question: How willthe individual requesting a rental umpire know if DCL Management has found anumpire for his request?

Ans: You need to have a Facebook accountand must be a member of DCL’s Official Facebook Group. Check the official DCLFacebook Group after12:00 PM every Thursday. DCL will post the list of all therequests received / processed and publish the name of the assigned umpire foreach request. If in that list you see “Pending”against the assignedumpire it’s implied that Rental umpire was not found and team requesting musttake care of the assignment, if any interested person replies to the post andshows interest in taking up the pending assignment will post his interest andthen DCL organizers will assign the umpire from the FB post.

Question: How largeis the DCL’s Rent-An-Umpire pool?

Ans: DCL has about 200+Rent–An-Umpires[certified + non-certified] who have shown interest in umpiring DCL games. Thislist keeps on increasing.

Question: I cannot seeposts on DCL Facebook page?

If you don’t see a poston the DCL Facebook group, then please try to reach out to the DCL organizers.If you are not able to contact DCL Organizers, then please go ahead and do yourown umpiring. Later on ask DCL for a full refund.

List of DCL organizerscan be found at http://www.dallascricket.net/Main/leadership.aspx

Question: DCL Management I as a registered Umpire on dclumpires@gmail.com alreadyrequested for an umpire assignment but why someone else is assigned to thatrequest?

Answer: Umpires are assigned on a first come first served basis, ifyou are not assigned to your request then, Either, someone else has respondedto that request before you. Or, you are a non certified umpire requesting for acertified umpire assignment.

Question: When are thepayments processed for rental duty or Refunds?

Answer:  For Rental Umpires, payments are processed by DCL organizersby Wednesday, unless the organizer is busy with work schedule, Be rest assuredpayment will be processed by Thursday the latest

For Refunds, A refund request email must be receivedon dclumpires@gmail.com email in order to initiate the refund.Refund will not be initiated until the email is received. We need to receivethe email to keep a record and track. The email must include which request youare asking refund for and the PayPal email ID of the person who made thepayment. The refund will only go to the account that it was paid from. 

Remember person doing all the umpiring assignments does this as volunteer anddoesn’t gets paid for this, so your patience will be appreciated.

Question: I aminterested in umpiring DCL / DLCL games please let me know the process on howdo I get notified about these Rental Umpire Requests.

Ans: Interested umpires must send an email to  dclumpires@gmail.com Please mention the following in your email

1) Your First Name: andLast Name

2) Your Cell PhoneNumber & (WhatsApp number if different)

3) Your Email address

4) Are you a CertifiedUmpire Or a Non Certified Umpire

5) Paypal Email ID

6) A refundable depositof $50 as an assurance from the umpires not to miss any umpiringduty.  Deposit can be paid all at once or can be from first rentalgame. Deposit will be refunded when the umpire requests his name to be removedfrom the list.

Question: Why is the deposit of $50 taken from interested rental umpires?

Ans: If a rental umpiremisses an umpiring (due to any reasons) he will have to pay penalty of $50 formissing umpiring. Upon missing  an umpiring, the rental umpire needsto pay the fine within 2 days else his name will be removed from the umpiringlist and the deposit will be used as penalty. Their name will not be added backuntil the umpire does not pays the fine.

Question: I requested rental umpiring for myteam, but don't see in the list on Facebook, why? what to do?

Ans: At times emails go to Junk folder or are never received due totechnical issues on server. If teams see their request is missing on Facebook,they need to do 2 things
1. Under the umpiring post, add a comment that your request ismissing, that is the fastest way to find new umpire in short period of time.
2. Send an email to DCLMGMT@gmail.comand DCLUMPIRES@gmail.com about missedumpiring list, so team can investigate the issue or check spam folder.

Roles and Responsibilities on Rental Umpiring

Team Captains/Vice Captains/Managers, pleasecirculate this information with your team members regarding Rental umpire.

Renting Umpire is a service provided to teamswho find difficulty finding umpires within teams. DCL does not make any moneythe entire money given by teams goes to Umpires assigned plus PayPal fees.

It is teams’ responsibility to make sure theumpiring request information sent is accurate, DCL Volunteer WILL NOT verifyif the information is incorrect. If the assigned umpire goes to wrongGround/Time/Date, its teams mistake not DCL's.

Once posted all umpiring assignments on Facebook,it's teams’ responsibility to check if umpire is assigned, if the post say'spending, requesting team must send umpire from their team, if team doesn't haveany member in DCL FB group, teams should encourage members to join. If missedumpire is reported, 2 points will be docked no matter what.