Missed Umpiring’s and Walkover Penalties Please Share this with your teammates immediately.

All fines must be paid within 3 days of the offense else the team will forfeit their next game. Team will not be allowed to continue further 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 Umpiring Penalties 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 umpiring 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 a money-making business; this is a genuine way of helping the teams to find an umpire)

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

Rental Umpire Prices:

Any umpiring requests made after Wednesday 12:00 PM will not be processed. Final List of Assigned Rental Umpires will be posted on DCL Official Facebook Group 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 rental request, we had added $10 to cover parking charges for umpires. Assigned umpires 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 the umpiring fees according to the timings and the grounds mentioned.

*** Screenshot of the Payment must be attached to the email otherwise your request will not be entertained

Payment Option 1: Using your team’s login/password on DCL or DLCL websites (Without the payment DCL will not look for an umpire). 

Payment Option 2: If you have Zelle, you can pay to Zelle ID remitdcl@gmail.com

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

See the Sample Request 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: Team ‘Z’
Umpiring Request: Certified
Amount Paid: $42
Request Made on: Month, Date before 5pm Wednesday

Payment Made By: Zelle ID of the Payer

*** Screenshot of the Payment must be attached to the email otherwise your request will not be entertained.

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

Refund Policy:

No refunds will be processed if the game is called off due to bad weather/Walkover or any other reason once an umpiring request is made except if DCL Management is unable 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 the teams to use DCL Rent-An-Umpire as a last option. Once all your options are exhausted then only, please submit your Rent-An-Umpire Request to DCL. We don’t want to spend any time looking into your request or work on any type of refunds as it is time consuming. Once a request is made to DCL [dclumpires] and the Rental umpiring fees are paid DCL will only refund the amount if we are unable to find any umpires for your team.  We are just trying to help teams find rental umpires as a courtesy. 

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

Question: If the game is cancelled due to walkover or Bad weather called off a day prior, will I get refund.

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

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

Answer: ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Question: I have paid for a Rental Umpire request; will DCL guarantee that they will find us an Umpire?

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

Question: How will the individual requesting a rental umpire know if DCL Management has found an umpire for his request?

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

Question: How large is 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. This list keeps on increasing.

Question: I cannot see posts on DCL Facebook page?

If you don’t see a post on 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 your own umpiring. Later, ask DCL for a full refund.

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

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

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

Question: When are the payments processed for rental duty or Refunds?

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

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

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

Question: I am interested in umpiring DCL / DLCL games please let me know the process on how I would 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)      First Name

2)      Last Name

3)      Cell Phone Number

4)      WhatsApp number (if different than cell phone number)

5)      Email address

6)      Are you DCL Certified Umpire? (If certified from other league, please provide proof of certification)

7)      Zelle ID

8)      A refundable deposit of $50 as an assurance from the umpires not to miss any umpiring duty.  Deposit can be paid all at once or can be from first rental game. Deposit will be refunded when the umpire requests his name to be removed from the list.

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

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

Question: I was assigned an umpiring assignment; due to some emergency I need to opt out from those assignments. What can I do?

Ans: Please refer to the following. 

• Umpires can request to be opted out from the assignment no later than 12:00 PM on Thursday.
• After 12:00 PM Thursday umpires must provide sufficient evidence to request opt out from an assignment otherwise the umpires must pay $50 penalty before taking his next assignments. 

Question: I was assigned an umpiring assignment and I missed it due to family emergency, sickness, injury, accident?

Ans: Umpires must provide sufficient evidence to prove the incident. Umpires must pay $80 penalty before taking his next assignments if failure to provide evidence to prove the incident.

Question: I requested rental umpiring for my team, 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 to technical 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 is missing, that is the fastest way to find new umpire in short period of time.
2. Send an email to DCLMGMT@gmail.com and DCLUMPIRES@gmail.com about missed umpiring list, so team can investigate the issue or check spam folder.

Roles and Responsibilities on Rental Umpiring

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

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

It is teams’ responsibility to make sure the umpiring request information sent is accurate, DCL Volunteer WILL NOT verify if the information is incorrect. If the assigned umpire goes to wrong Ground/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's pending, requesting team must send umpire from their team, if team doesn't have any member in DCL FB group, teams should encourage members to join. If missed umpire is reported, 2 points will be docked no matter what.