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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not make the cutoff July 31 or whenever divisionals/all stars will finally be done?

But seriously, the cutoff has to be somewhere. It doesn't really matter where - just make the cutoff. My kid plays baseball and he has a horrible birthday for little league but a great birthday for travel. [/quote]

Why would that be more fair?  It would just mean that the same kids are disadvantaged as in other sports.

My late July birthday played 2 sports with July 31 cut offs, and 2 which went by grade.  He was the youngest in all of them.  And he got to be the older kid for 6 weeks of summer swim every other year.[/quote]

It doesn't make it more fair. But it does make it so that you don't have kids older than the age they're competing in for each age bracket.

I did say that the cutoff has to be somewhere and I don't really care that much. Two of my kids have summer birthdays and they're advantaged for summer swim. But I really don't care that much. Again, my summer birthday oldest has been disadvantaged (youngest in his grade, youngest for little league in which he plays EVERY SINGLE game a year older than he actually is) and rarely advantaged (summer swim and travel baseball). But such is life. [/quote]

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