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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to make teams based on a 6 month age band. Jan-June and July to Dec. That would solve a lot of problems.

Most of you should have noticed that the top teams consist of players primarily from the Jan- June birth years...otherords kids with the higher graduation year. For example, look at any U17 ECNL or GA team. About 75 percent of the players are Class of 2022 (some cases more).. About 25 percent are Class of 2023.  Same for any 05 team as well.

The only thing the age change accomplished was to change the RAE to benefit the Jan - May birth month kid verse the Sept- Dec birth month kids in order to align birth months with international competition standards.

From a players prospective, it caused the kids with the later birth months to get washed out.

From a development prospective, this is horrible because we are awarding the older player while discarding a large portion of the younger players while kids are still developing and growing. So forth and so on.

Go to six age bands and double the amount of teams per age group. That will begin to solve any of problems. Very simple. [/quote]

This would only matter and work through about 6-7th grade. It should absolutely be done for elementary age players but not so much beyond that.

Other solutions like bio banding should be looked into for truly small at age players. But for girls, once you hit 15 97% of the growing is done.[/quote]

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