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This is a large Rec. League, we do everything from High School down to Pre-K (umps at 3rd grade+). Up until a couple of years ago we did not have experienced enough umpires to do more then 1 at a game. When I was 18 (4th season), I skipped my last year of league play to umpire 4 nights a week, and was getting High School age games because I was one of the few that could handle it. We have made huge improvements in training and reduced are seasonal turnover. Also, we had a large influx of umpires 2 years ago that finally allowed for all of this to come into place. Thank you all for your thoughts (and support) in this thread. If you have any other tips/tricks please let me know. I am open to hearing what other have to say.

I am the Assistant Chief Umpire for one of my leagues. We finally (after years of discussion) went to 2-man crews for our high school and Jr. high levels 2 years ago. We had previously only used the 2-man in the Championships. We have a good solid core of 2-man umps (including myself and another who went to Jim Evans), but would like to possibly step it up to either 3-man or 4-man crews on our Championships. I am wondering if this is something that can be done easily, or should we wait and hold off for maybe down the line? None of us have really ever done the 3 or 4, so it would be a 1 day, 2 game thing. If we did it, what do you see would be the downfalls (missed coverages, forgotten rotations, ect.)?