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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused. Isn’t it illegal to play down? I thought with the whole birth year change you had to play with your birth year

What am I missing? 
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MLS Next rules allow for 3 over-age players per team.  It is called the "late developers" rule in MLS Next but is also referred to as bio-banding.  The idea is to allow smaller kids who are late to puberty to play a year down until they catch up.  At these years, there is a huge variability in height and weight and the rule is designed to encourage late developers to stick with the game.  But, Bethesda abuses the rule for a competitive advantage by playing larger faster kids down.  [/quote]

Interesting! So the bio-banding player (playing down a year) trains with his age group or with the one year younger group? Does ECNL also offer that?[/quote]

ECNL has no such rule that I have heard of. You play with your age group. The only exception is trapped players when in 8th grade and in 12th grade because if they didn’t allow this there would be no team for them.

We had a 12/31 kid on the team. He got no preferential treatment for being small.

What a ridiculous, subjective rule that allows for cheating. To have 3 starters who could be a year older than the rest of the players is a huge advantage. And what happens when this team plays a non MLS next team that doesn’t offer the same advantage- do they have to pull the older kids out (for tournaments and the like) or they still play?[/quote]

Yes, because winning is all that matters![/quote]

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