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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If US Soccer goes back to school year, then there will be no “trapped player”. I see people mixing in ideas of bio-banding and playing up, but that’s all noise. The term “trapped player” is specific to kids who are born in (September?) Oct, Nov, December and therefore are  in a different school class than the kids born Jan-September.

That’s it, nothing fancy or strange. Sure, there will be edge cases of kids who are held back or moved forward in school, but for the vast majority, the move would re-align them for the purposes of college recruiting.

Frankly, if I had a trapped player I would want this. It really sucks for the kids who are sophomores in HS during that crucial year when all of their teammates are all-in on recruiting. Most significant is just the sheer number of coaches that show up. If you are U17, you might have 60-120 College coaches show up at your ECNL showcase or Jeff Cup game. When you are U18/19, it’s 35 coaches, and half of them are only showing up to make sure the kids they already signed aren’t slacking off.[/quote]

Won't there still be players whose soccer year and club year are misaligned?  If the soccer year starts 8/1 but the school cut off is 10/1, the August-September kids are playing a year "down" compared to their school year, right?  Is the answer just that there are fewer of them or they are somehow not "trapped"? [/quote]

“Trapper” players are so rarely on a top team or a top player it is stupid to move everything for these few players. The vast majority of good players(75%j have birthdays Jan - June. Why upset everything for so little benefit.[/quote]

My kids a "trapped" player and starts on a top 50 ranked team for the age group she plays in.

Not sure where you got the data on trapped players not being good.[/quote]

I think, or hope, its sarcastic... There are so few players from the later quartiles because of 1. birth date bias but 2. because the late quartile kids are cut off from their classmates. My kid, a late Nov birth, has never played on a team with his best friend and classmate because he's a June birth. He's played with bigger, more mature kids that he rarely is friends with. 
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