what’s the worst birthday month for sports?

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Anonymous wrote:Is mid June good for anything? I feel like it’s late for school aged and bottom middle for anything else that starts in January.

Terrible for swimming, decent for baseball, middle for soccer. If you redshirt, good for lacrosse.

Our youth baseball league is Sep 1-Aug 31. Is yours different?

Our lacrosse is by grade level all the way through.

Your baseball league sounds like rec? I know that’s little league age grouping.

Here, travel baseball is May 1-April 30 so a kid with a June birthday would have the second oldest birthday month in travel baseball.

Naturally my kid has an April 30th birthday.

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Most of the top travel baseball teams (youth) seem to be full of kids who have late spring or summer birthdays right after the May 1 cutoff. A lot of them seem to be redshirted too, and will keep the same relative age advantage for HS ball.

Yeah for most sports, at some point it is about age relative to graduation year. A May birthday baseball player is not well served by dominating 13u baseball in 8th grade and then trying to make a high school stream with 19 year olds pitching the next year. So if you’re looking for an age advantage long term, I’d vote for a redshirted summer birthday.

A redshirted baseball player in 13U right now, is in 7th grade, not 8th grade. The kids who weren't redshirted are in 8th grade are playing 14U, that we know of. The birthdates are 5/1/2010-4/30/2011. I think a lot of people have already thought this through.

Yes. Thats what I’m saying. A non redshirted 8th grade kid turning 14 in May 2024 is the same age as the redshirted 7th grader and CAN play 13u baseball this spring. But it makes no sense for them to do that since they are preparing for HS (unlike the redshirted 7th grader), so they often play up to 14u. That makes it a crap birthday for non redshirts. They’re always playing against older kids.

I am among the many people who you note have already thought this through. In baseball, May birthday is perfect for redshirts, and is a challenge for non redshirts.

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Anonymous wrote:Is mid June good for anything? I feel like it’s late for school aged and bottom middle for anything else that starts in January.

Terrible for swimming, decent for baseball, middle for soccer. If you redshirt, good for lacrosse.

Our youth baseball league is Sep 1-Aug 31. Is yours different?

Our lacrosse is by grade level all the way through.

Your baseball league sounds like rec? I know that’s little league age grouping.

Here, travel baseball is May 1-April 30 so a kid with a June birthday would have the second oldest birthday month in travel baseball.

Naturally my kid has an April 30th birthday.

+1

Most of the top travel baseball teams (youth) seem to be full of kids who have late spring or summer birthdays right after the May 1 cutoff. A lot of them seem to be redshirted too, and will keep the same relative age advantage for HS ball.

Yeah for most sports, at some point it is about age relative to graduation year. A May birthday baseball player is not well served by dominating 13u baseball in 8th grade and then trying to make a high school stream with 19 year olds pitching the next year. So if you’re looking for an age advantage long term, I’d vote for a redshirted summer birthday.

A redshirted baseball player in 13U right now, is in 7th grade, not 8th grade. The kids who weren't redshirted are in 8th grade are playing 14U, that we know of. The birthdates are 5/1/2010-4/30/2011. I think a lot of people have already thought this through.

Yes. Thats what I’m saying. A non redshirted 8th grade kid turning 14 in May 2024 is the same age as the redshirted 7th grader and CAN play 13u baseball this spring. But it makes no sense for them to do that since they are preparing for HS (unlike the redshirted 7th grader), so they often play up to 14u. That makes it a crap birthday for non redshirts. They’re always playing against older kids.

I am among the many people who you note have already thought this through. In baseball, May birthday is perfect for redshirts, and is a challenge for non redshirts.

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It is smooth sailing for the May-summer birthdays as long as they redshirt. They will be oldest for both travel and grade and it is particularly an extra advantage in the middle school (puberty) years and entering high school. Honestly, this particular combo (redshirted May-July birthday) is completely perfect for baseball.

The non redshirted ones seem to have a hard time -either always being youngest or having to skip an age level altogether at some point to get “on grade”.

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Not to beat a dead baseball birthday horse even more, but I personally think you should play with your graduating year. So if you’re a May-September birthday in 8th grade but playing on a 13u team, you’re technically playing in the correct travel group, but they aren’t your school peers. You’ll only have one year on the big field before you enter high school.

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Depends on the season for the sport. For my kids spring football is a 4/1 cutoff, fall football is 9/1, swim is 6/1, baseball is 9/1, golf is 1/1.

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Anonymous wrote:August - our DS was born in early September - and we reclassified him in middle school to the year below, end result was perfect he turned 19 a week into senior year. Wound up attending a top SLAC for his sport, 100% the result of the age advantage we arranged - younger DS won’t be so easy with August birthday

This is nuts.

Right? My DD will turn 17 a month into senior year. And I sent her ON TIME.

A 16 year old is staring high school? My DD, on time, will turn 18 a month into senior year.

Yes, she has a late September birthday.