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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biobanding is such a disservice to smaller kids. Lots of kids never grow to the size doctors guess (or parents want) so all you are doing is ensuring your kid will never be able to keep up by playing them down. If they can't cut it at their age in MLSN go play in another league. We won't even get into the social aspect of making the clear statement my kid isn't good enough to play at thir own age. [/quote]

Dear Ignorant, 
Biobanding is applied in all the true football countries. 
Several current top ranked professional and international players from both club and world cup champions were biobanded.

You clearly don't know nor understand the concept.

As soon as you mentioned "good enough to play own age" it was a glaring sign of your lack of understanding. [/quote]

You are misleading here. Those examples are from true elite professional clubs academy team.

Here, all those mediocre P2P MLSN clubs use biobanding to let mediocre players to play down as they have no way to play in their own age group. Those biobanding players technical skills are not superior to worth taking a spot from the younger group.

To put it bluntly, those kids and their parents are cheaters. They take advantage of the biobanding rule to play down to steal the game time from 12 - 15 months younger players. I am glad ECNL does not have this shit and my Dec. kid will not get bothered by a 15 months older cheaters to come down.

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How does a parent place their kid on a lower age team without the league, club and coach being fully involved?
Why are coaches and clubs taking a biobanded player that has less or mediocre skills over more skillful players if the aim is to cheat?

Biobanding is not about calendar age, it's biological age.
Because you don't understand relative age effect and biobanding, you think a kid born January 3rd 2014 and one born December 30th 2014 are the same age.
While fact is biologically the December kid is closer in age to a January 2015 kid.[/quote]

I would take it one step further and say biological age is more of a factor across the board than DOB. It's very possible to have a January 2015 kid who is more like a January 2016 kid than a May 2015 kid in terms of growth development. If you plant five apple trees and four start bearing fruit in six summers but the fith one doesn't, do you just chop it down or wait for it to catch up and see if it actually bears the best fruit? [/quote]

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