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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What ever happened to bio-banding, where they did tests on how far developed a kid was vs. their parents vs. other kids, etc. Did US Soccer give up on that? I saw the English FA was looking at it too.

https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2018/04/us-soccer-introduces-bio-banding-initiative[/quote]

Great question. Saw some lip service about it, but nothing much more than that.[/quote]

Bio Banding is being utilized but currently it is pretty metric driven and since it is really intended for kids in the 10th-20th percentile (just pulling the specific numbers out of my butt) in size it is obviously dealing with teh small band of kids on the left side of the Bell Curve. Kids in the 90th percentile have always essentially been bio banded by playing up but there has been no real option for small kids being allowed to play a year younger to even out the size.

Inherently, this is a small group so not really something you would notice much of anyways. And, socially, most parents or players are not bragging "hey my kid is Bio banned down a year!!" in the same way that parents would brag about their kids playing up a year. [/quote]

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