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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what DMV MLSNext teams are biobanding? [/quote]

Every MLSNext teams have bio banded kids in almost all age groups.[/quote]

there is a 5'6" 13 yo playing down on my son's team and not sure how 5'6" at 13 is an undersized late bloomer but ok I guess. whatever it takes to win. yes I am bitter and no he wasn't 4'10 at beginning of season and had some kind og miraculous 8 inch spurt causing him to have sized out of biobanding.  its a jok[/quote]

I mean if a biobanded kid threatens your kid’s place on the team, then perhaps consider whether your kid is  good enough for an MLSNext team?

Maybe it’s team specific. But even the regular starters on my DS MLSNext team don’t ever think their starting slot or time is secure. And that anyone (current teammate, second team player, outsider, etc.) can be better or can get better. They’ve seen it happen a few times on their team and other teams so no one considers biobanded kids any different from any other player threat. 
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What club is this?  This is a great mentality for development.[/quote]

It's easy to tell who is a biobanded if you actually have a kid in MLS Next. Just look at the game rosters on Taka. Biobands automatically have both their actual age group and the younger age group they were approved by MLS to play with in their profile. [/quote]

Weirdly creepily stalkerish[/quote]

looking at the opponents roster is not stalkerish or weird.  And . . . wouldn't be an issue if teams didn't abuse the rule.  I'd caution though, this could also show a player who regularly plays up an age group.  Delco, for instance, has a larger 2010 (U16) who shows as a U17 and U16 on Taka.  [/quote]

Delco uses 3 biobands on every team except for the oldest. They have 'doctors' who help get the biobands approved and they start/play pretty much every minute. Oh, and they are larger than almost every player out there. They are proud of it and it is part of their 'winning formula'. I didn't really care, mainly because most of the teams around them ignored this and just fielded teams properly but that has now changed in the last 2 years (and a lot this year). Everyone is now trying to emulate the 'Delco Way' and it won't be long before every team in the area is doing it.

I have no problem with the theory of it, and if the pro academies here and abroad want to do it, fine. But let's not pretend it isn't being abused majorly. Hopefully the P2P MLSN clubs switch to SY and that shakes up the current nonsense that is going on. [/quote]

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