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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Birthdays really don't play a role at all when this is done right. The kids who should be bio-banding are exceptionally skilled but in the 1-5 percentile of growth charts relative to their age - be that a January or December birthday. Their puberty is also delayed typically. If a kid has gone through puberty and gained significant muscle mass but is still short/small - that would be a factor - as they are peaked out in terms of physical development and no need to make exceptions. Unfortunately, clubs are abusing this waiver system, which is a shame. [/quote]
"Abuse of the waiver system" doesn't matter. It's actually a good thing because it's forcing opposing players to play up but in a limited fashion. This is why nobody cares. If clubs wanted to win they could play their best players down. When this happens everyone knows what's going on. In this situation who is the winner? The players playing down and not being challenged? Or the players playing against better players that are a year older that are being challenged?[/quote]

There are kids in MLS Next playing up an age group who are going against bio-banded kids. It's now a two year difference

Several of the bio-banded kids are not physically underdeveloped [/quote]

Eventually, they will have to play against their own age groups if they want to play in college. No coach is going to recruit a senior playing U16.  If they want to delay it a year, I think the only ones hurt by it are the kids playing down who have to deal with teammates mocking them. Either way, I think this is better for kids than the redshirting that goes on in other sports. At least with bio banding, the kid graduates high school on time   [/quote]

This is not about college. Its about increasing the number of kids who make it through pro academies and become pros. If you look at birthdates of players on the top team or in the pros it is usually 70% are Jan-March, 20% April - June 10% July-December. If you break the year in quarters there should be equal number of kids on the top team/pros from each group. So the pro academies are leaving a lot of money on the table(in terms of pro contracts) by not developing the kids with later birthdates.

BB is trying to address this issue but it is not the total answer and is difficult to implement. You still have the older kids making the higher team, getting more coach attention at the younger ages, etc. way before the pro academies and in travel(US). A better way(cheaper and less crying from the parents) would be to play by year/quarters till after puberty. So ‘12/(Jan-March, ‘12/April-June, etc. This would also remove some of the pressure to win at the younger ages because the real teams would not be formed till the kids are a lot older. [/quote]

The trouble is, puberty can last into college for some boys. [/quote]

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