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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wasn’t soccer a different date before they moved to birth year? Makes me wonder if other sports (aside from swim and weight based sports) will also move to birth year, especially because seasons don’t seem to exist in youth sports anymore.  [/quote]

Soccer was close to school cutoffs before they switched to birth year in a misguided attempt to try and gain an advantage for the January birth dates at the international level after reading freakonomics. They thought the reason the US was not competitive was that the “older” birth year kids were not receiving the best training, as they were “middle” of the school age groups, changing to birth year would give them an edge and help the 1% of the 1% from the beginning, while wrecking retention at the young ages (since kids aren’t playing with their classmates) and causing a glut of trapped players (younger players in lower grades left behind when their older birth year team mates change schools - MS-HS, HS-college).

I doubt other sports would change, as school year cutoffs make sense for college and pretty much every other reason. . [/quote]

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