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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a summer birthday boy and don’t redshirt, you’re silly.  It’s not just about athletics either, it’s about sending a 17 year old boy off to college.  No thank you. But that’s for a different forum and post.

Regardless, my summer birthday kid has an august bday.  He his the age he swims at all season, not older.  He’s just lucky.  Moving the age cut off to august or September would mean he’d age up before he reached max age.  That doesn’t happen with a June 1 cutoff, for anyone. That’s why the cut off is where it is.  [b]Very few kids are swimming “old” — only those with June and July bdays. [/b]Just get over it. [/quote]

So very few equals roughly 15 percent of kids.  Good to know.[/quote]

15 percent of kids who participate in summer swim have June and July bdays? Where do you figure that? 15% is a small number—the vast majority of kids swimming in the summer are not “old”, and those that are only have a max two month “advantage”.  Stop with this stupidity.[/quote]

It's basic math.  If assume birthdays are fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, which is a decent assumption for a large population, then about 8 percent of kids will have a birthday in any randomly selected month.  All of June plus most of July gives you about 15 percent.  It would be interesting though to see if there's any self-selection bias with those summer bday kids choosing to participate in summer swim at high rates than the general population or at significantly different rates than the kids with spring birthdays.[/quote]

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