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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that there is no fair way. There is just shifting who gets hit the most. For summer swim everyone with a may birthday has it hard. For sc champs, February.  For lc champs, June. The only really possinly equitable answers are to make 1 year (instead of 2 year) brackets so that there is a 12 month window instead of 24 month and/or the LSC to step up and make some December LSC sanctioned champ meets that can allow the swimmers with first quarter birthdays to compete in “big meets”. Beyond that there is no functional change. [/quote]

1 year brackets would make a pretty big difference.  Unclear why they don't do this.  They can even still swim heats in 2 year brackets and then break out the results by age.[/quote]

You could also compile your own age-adjusted results where you add somewhere on the order of 0.4% for each month beyond the minimum for the age group to compensate for differences in age (10 percent improvement over 2 years in pretty standard in the younger age groups).  That way the results will rightfully reflect that a new 9 year old who swims the 50 free in 35 seconds "faster" than a 10 year and 11 month old who swam a 33 second 50 free (which would scale to about a 36 second on an age-adjusted basis).  Or you could start at the top and subtract for the younger kids and really make them feel like superstars.[/quote]

Why would you make up fake times?  That makes no sense.[/quote]

NP. I think PP is pointing out that there are a million ways to slice up the data to accomplish what OP’s gripe is - that kids don’t get enough “credit” and chance for 10 year old glory due to the meet schedule. It doesn’t feel like the system is broken, so I don’t know why it should be fixed. Kids compete with 1 year age groups every time they get into the pool. Any of the other suggestions would still have kids that are the oldest and kids that are the youngest in the same group, except with the added distraction and confusion that they are not actually the same age in years. [/quote]

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