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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The greatest age gap in a 6 month age group is........six months.

Thats a lot better than one year.

Go look at any roster. How many Jan- Mar birth years vs Sept - Dec birth year do you see?

We are picking winners and lovers based on birth months.

How stupid are we really? [/quote]

But as kids get older that "year" gap simply stops being the advantage it once was. I mean, we stop comparing kids ages based on months past two years. The difference between a 3 month old and a 10- month is the ability to sit up and walk. But that advantage goes away quickly.

A year difference at 13 or 14 is just not as radically different as it is at 7 years old. It does not need to be accounted for artificially. We don't have such a complicated cutoff in school because frankly, it just isn't that necessary and to do so would be prohibitively expensive and complicated.

We should be as open to smaller players playing at younger age groups as we are with bigger kids playing up. A dual age band model could make that more accepting at older age groups but it is just not necessary to do dual age groups at older ages. [/quote]

I agree.. it does become LESS of an issue when they're fully done with puberty. However, the majority of kids with the later birth years have already washed out. They're not around. Thats my point. Make the filtering of kids later..after puberty....after things has a chance to level out [/quote]

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