ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this arguing is so pointless since it won't happen for another year. GY is only way to go to avoid trapped players everywhere.

And then you get much larger age differences … great (and a problem)

MLS has biobanding. My kid competes with older boy who is 18 months older. There is always someone who wants to take the advantage. Just suck it up and grind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this arguing is so pointless since it won't happen for another year. GY is only way to go to avoid trapped players everywhere.

And then you get much larger age differences … great (and a problem)

MLS has biobanding. My kid competes with older boy who is 18 months older. There is always someone who wants to take the advantage. Just suck it up and grind.

How is this possible?

[Anonymous]

It shouldn’t be possible. That’s why grad year can’t happen.

[Anonymous]

Our ecnl director thought he could play two trapped players down at each age group for 2025 and he called
the league, and nope, no trapped players playing down next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this arguing is so pointless since it won't happen for another year. GY is only way to go to avoid trapped players everywhere.

And then you get much larger age differences … great (and a problem)

MLS has biobanding. My kid competes with older boy who is 18 months older. There is always someone who wants to take the advantage. Just suck it up and grind.

Yeah, but at least biobanding has rules around it where it's trying to level the playing field based on soccer-related standards. GY doesn't and is more ripe for abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our ecnl director thought he could play two trapped players down at each age group for 2025 and he called
the league, and nope, no trapped players playing down next year.

Called the League, is this satire?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this arguing is so pointless since it won't happen for another year. GY is only way to go to avoid trapped players everywhere.

And then you get much larger age differences … great (and a problem)

MLS has biobanding. My kid competes with older boy who is 18 months older. There is always someone who wants to take the advantage. Just suck it up and grind.

Yeah, but at least biobanding has rules around it where it's trying to level the playing field based on soccer-related standards. GY doesn't and is more ripe for abuse.

You truly believe anybody bothers to check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this arguing is so pointless since it won't happen for another year. GY is only way to go to avoid trapped players everywhere.

And then you get much larger age differences … great (and a problem)

MLS has biobanding. My kid competes with older boy who is 18 months older. There is always someone who wants to take the advantage. Just suck it up and grind.

Yeah, but at least biobanding has rules around it where it's trying to level the playing field based on soccer-related standards. GY doesn't and is more ripe for abuse.

You truly believe anybody bothers to check.

You make it sound like winter league. You forget that perhaps a positive result of over-involved soccer parents is rule-breaking like this, especially at the highest levels, get scrutiny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It shouldn’t be possible. That’s why grad year can’t happen.

The difference in biobanding can be up to 23 months. For example a January born 2010 plays on my son’s Dec 2011s MLSN team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this arguing is so pointless since it won't happen for another year. GY is only way to go to avoid trapped players everywhere.

And then you get much larger age differences … great (and a problem)

MLS has biobanding. My kid competes with older boy who is 18 months older. There is always someone who wants to take the advantage. Just suck it up and grind.

How is this possible?

Biobanding has nothing to do with age but rather the size of the kid. I believe players can only go down one age group.
But some kids are older for the age group already not always the Q4 kids biobanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It shouldn’t be possible. That’s why grad year can’t happen.

Biobanding is worse the GY because you have the same problem of way older kids without them actually in the same grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our ecnl director thought he could play two trapped players down at each age group for 2025 and he called
the league, and nope, no trapped players playing down next year.

ECNL already allows trapped players to play down for showcases and league game during the high school season. Most clubs just don’t advertise it because it hurts their bottom line to waste a spot (money) on kids who can only play a handful of games or less.


But ECNL and US club soccer have already said no changes next year. SY in 26/27 will happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It shouldn’t be possible. That’s why grad year can’t happen.

Biobanding is worse the GY because you have the same problem of way older kids without them actually in the same grade.

Not sure being in the same grade helps in this case, except for the older kid. With GY, you could be an early summer b-day, a foot taller and it's OK, which wouldn't be true with biobanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It shouldn’t be possible. That’s why grad year can’t happen.

The difference in biobanding can be up to 23 months. For example a January born 2010 plays on my son’s Dec 2011s MLSN team.

Do you think it's unfair? If the kid is the same size/soccer development stage, why not OK? Is the kid much more advanced on other aspects of the game (mental, strategy)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It shouldn’t be possible. That’s why grad year can’t happen.

The difference in biobanding can be up to 23 months. For example a January born 2010 plays on my son’s Dec 2011s MLSN team.

Do you think it's unfair? If the kid is the same size/soccer development stage, why not OK? Is the kid much more advanced on other aspects of the game (mental, strategy)?

He takes the spot of another 2011. He takes away the game time from that 2011 team. I think it is not fair. Most players are ordinary players for the pay-to-play MLSN clubs with a $4k club fee. There is no point in having a biobanding rule, hoping an elite player will emerge. It is not fair to the paying parents.