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[quote=Anonymous]I'm glad some of you are obsessed with soccer because your logic and calculation skills clearly aren't where they should be.

Whether you agree with PP or not, you can't logically argue that someone who has a November birthday and went from being a U12 to a U14 did not "lose a year" or , to put it another way, have one less year of travel training than the kids with earlier birthdays who went from U13 to U14.  How much you value that year is up to you, but you can't say it doesn't exist.

I personally think it matters more for the younger groups (where they have had fewer overall years of training), and for the older boys.  For instance, a boy with a December 2001 birthday went from being a U14 8th grader to a U16 9th grader and likely has mostly U16 10 graders on his team (anyone born Jan-Sept for kids in their "correct" grade (unredshirted, etc)).  There can be a big growth spurt at that age, so if you have a smaller freshman and a bigger sophomore, it will be magnified.  And, as stated, those kids will have had more training.  It might not matter, but it exists.

All that being said - it's done.  Time to move on.
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