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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girls lacrosse is school grade and it’s terribly unfair due to excessive redshirting around here. 
US lacrosse changed to birth year and NGLL (this area) didn’t follow. [/quote]

Agree with this, too many girls that are nearly a full year older than their peers.[/quote]

Whats the difference between a January 2004 birthday and a December 2004 birthday? A whole year. This is the problem. It always favor the older kids regardless the cutoff. Its a no win for the younger kids[/quote]

With school grade it could be Jan 2004 playing against December 2006.[/quote]

Which is likely to produce more variation in age?  Question answer itself. Grade-based. This is beyond stupid. [/quote]

Birth year. 1/3 of your kid’s classmates are playing up - no matter what. We are programmed to compare our kids based on other 2005s or 2004s. That’s all wrong. Compare them vs classmates. Look at the grad years. That’s what college coaches will do.[/quote]

Nonsense.  I grew up playing with the old way and hated it.  Birth year maximally produces 364 days difference.  If you are playing up, so be it.  But it's rare and a function of ability.  The problem is that if your kid is smart (mine is), advanced by a year (he is), and surrounded by average-intelligence kids whose dumber parents redshirt them in kindergarten so they can go to James Madison instead of community college, your stuck playing with a bunch of dumb big kids.  Do you want me to go on?  Because I can.[/quote]

Must be your wife's genes[/quote]

They don’t hurt - I think it is probably a joint venture genetically unless you reproduce asexually, which sounds like it may be your best option![/quote]

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