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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Younger doesn't mean smaller  Why is this so hard?  This is common sense. Six month age groups [/quote]

You haven't read the thread. Size, both large and small has been referred to in bio banding. Significantly larger kids play up and significantly smaller kids play down.

Six month age groups work fine for elementary age kids but not really beyond but bio banding can help out bridge the gap for many players.[/quote]

so basically you want every club that fields less that 4 teams per age group to either fold or have to field uncompetitive teams in order to fill out rosters? Sounds greats for the Arlingtons and Alexandrias [/quote]

You are misunderstanding the premise which lies in a few assumptions and facts.

Using dual age groupings per year is intended to fight the affects of Relative Age Effect and to be more inclusive of all players, ultimately resulting in more players participating overall. It is well known that kids born in the first 4 months of the cutoff year have a higher selection rate for youth "A teams". This early selection offers 1/4 of the kids opportunities that benefit and become a self fulfilling prophecy for years to come.

Late year kids, who are mostly smaller and lack a year of skill development (at 7 years old that is a long time) often fail to make top teams and therefore do not train with the "best players", get the best coaching or play in the top youth leagues for development. They simply get left behind.

The idea to have dual age groups within a birth year is intended to give those second half of year kids an opportunity at the same developmental opportunities they didn't have before simply due to size and maturity at such young ages. [/quote]

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