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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here — if the point is to keep kids in the same grade together, how does this help? [/quote]

For existing teams, think of moving from calendar year months to school year months as allowing about a quarter of the players to go back a year. Or they can stay on their teams/age brackets. So movement wouldn't be needed, only allowed. It presents an opportunity for players that are born in August to December and playing with an older grade to drop down a year and play with their classmates.

MSI Classic says they follow calendar year with an exception for kids born from July to Dec can play down a year if they are in "that grade at school."  And MLS Next has biobanding exception while ECNL has trapped player exception.

So ECNL could just follow MSI Classic's lead and stick with calendar year but add an exception for kids born between say August and December to go back a year. Sure, it's just semantics but so are all the exceptions.

When you think about it, ECNL and MLS Next / GA having slightly different rules could be a reasonable way for youth soccer to combat relative age effects as players/teams could have differing months as there oldest months.[/quote]

Ohhh i would love the exception. My DS is a Nov 2014 and his best mate is a Jan 2015. His whole team this year was 3rd graders playing up to U10. Next year the 2015s aren't going to play up, so they can't play together. [/quote]

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