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[quote=Anonymous]On the latest one, the ECNL team agreed that biobanding would be a disaster to implement and having trapped player exceptions can be problematic (like telling a boy playing down is not a punishment, some view it as a form of cheating, etc.) They also discussed that research found that going to calendar age didn't reduce the relative age effect, it merely slide it to different months.

An interesting side note was that the research infered that coaches were found to be ignoring who the youngest and oldest players in their birth year cohorts are so relative age effect remediation should start by educating coaches and clubs to what they are doing (which seemed like they were saying that should grade players based on a birth month curve when picking the players for top teams)

After the original podcast it seemed like they were trying to justify/float a trial balloon of the idea of expanding the trapped player rule in some way but today's podcast made it pretty clear that there was consensus that school age was better for youth soccer than calendar age.  A particular point was made that kids want to play with their school mates when first playing soccer and splitting grade at the outset of their school journey leads to a decrease in overall soccer participation.[/quote]

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