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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Age band is a grouping system (i.e., birth year, seasonal year, school year, etc.), and RAE is a result of that grouping system where people who are born earlier in that system gain a developmental advantage. [/quote]

RAE is the result of an “accumulated advantage” and in terms of RAE is correlated to being the oldest over many years based on age cohorting.

The accumulated advantage is the benefit / detriment. Not the age banding. As someone pointed out, there are other solutions such as bio-banding that can alleviate the accumulated advantage. There are others as well.

The issue is much deeper that “durrr age bands is different…not my duuuur child is oldest and best.” The change doesn’t eliminate the to date accumulated advantage / disadvantage. And the reshuffling will likely have little affect on anyone older than 7 or 8 currently. Each year the impact RAE has in athletics is diminished - with a maximum impact of about 10% at the earliest, and less than 1% before they exit youth. [/quote]On the boys side, around 13 is the mark not 7 or 8, essentially when puberty differences are stark.[/quote]

I understand what you’re saying, it’s not the same as the point I’m making. You’re right, so am I - two different points.

We can all agree that the change in age bands will make no difference to the vast majority of 17yo right? 16yo probably too, 15yo, most likely. 14yo, same. 13yo, maybe a bit. 12, maybe a bit more, etc…

When you get down to 7 or 8, that’s when making the “top team” early begins the accumulation of benefits. At 9/10 the separations and filtering have largely already happened. Each year you might see a couple kids drop off and a couple new kids move on - but no big swings. That allows for the accumulation of benefits to continue accruing for the vast majority of kids already filtered in.

Are there exceptions. Sure.[/quote]

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