Anonymous wrote:Common sense if you know anything about other sports, bro. Basketball? Hockey? Baseball? Swimming? Football? Volleyball?
Height and strength matter a whole lot more than soccer.

If there was anything such as common sense, everybody would have it

That said, you're saying your common sense trumps all the scientific studies using real world subjects regarding the impact of Relative Age Effect in youth sports?

We should ignore all the verifiable evidence and data about the impact of chronological vs biological age, size and early maturation in exchange for your opinion?

It is without doubt that size and strength matter in baseball (pitching, batting, throwing).

Agree that soccer is one of the sports where size/height/strength matter the LEAST. Sorry your kid is short, you alreayd picked the best sport for him without some scheme to play down.

Anonymous wrote:Common sense if you know anything about other sports, bro. Basketball? Hockey? Baseball? Swimming? Football? Volleyball?
Height and strength matter a whole lot more than soccer.

Baseball!? Do they bio-band based on the size of your kid’s beer belly? 🤣

Common sense if you know anything about other sports, bro. Basketball? Hockey? Baseball? Swimming? Football? Volleyball?
Height and strength matter a whole lot more than soccer.

Anonymous wrote:Every sport has age cutoffs.
Soccer is one of the sports where size has the least negative effect.

Do you have links to data and the scientific studies?
Would love to read how they reached those conclusions.

Every sport has age cutoffs.
Soccer is one of the sports where size has the least negative effect.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm for the idea, but perhaps for a different reason than most. My son is small, and wound up getting hurt a lot playing with his age group for travel soccer once the sport got more physical. It was truly almost constant.

This is a real concern especially around U13 and U14 when there are some kids who are 6 feet tall with muscles, and others who are under 5 feet tall and scrawny. I wonder what that looks like in hockey with the checking.

Hockey has two-year bands which makes it worse. My son is 12 and we just got the results back for the 14u teams for fall. We have 4 teams and the small kids generally made teams 3 and 4. No 12 year old made team 1.

Anonymous wrote:No El bueno el Amerikanos! If you don’t have it you don’t have it.

Me encanta

No El bueno el Amerikanos! If you don’t have it you don’t have it.

Anonymous wrote:I wish my daughter born in November could have played with girls in her grade class over the years, instead of playing mainly with girls a school year older. Last year of elementary and middle school are weird social years.

That is not bio banding. Everyone has "weird social years".

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they so weird about it? Why not band based on a skill assessment?

Cause then it would be called skill-banding. LMAO. and this is why clubs already have multiple level teams based on SKILL.

Actually it is based on size and speed not skill. So they are already are doing biobanding

Am I daft? The teams are primarily based on AGE - hence U-9, U-14 then further sorted by speed and skill (Red, Orange, green).

Bio banding is having a smaller player play DOWN but on a team commensurate with talent to obviate the very clear advantage size/speed brings to the game.

Other countries recognized they often missed out on their Messi / who is 5’6 by only developing their talls in U14-U-16 stage.

Anonymous wrote:I'm for the idea, but perhaps for a different reason than most. My son is small, and wound up getting hurt a lot playing with his age group for travel soccer once the sport got more physical. It was truly almost constant.

This is one of the main reasons for biobanding

I wish my daughter born in November could have played with girls in her grade class over the years, instead of playing mainly with girls a school year older. Last year of elementary and middle school are weird social years.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they so weird about it? Why not band based on a skill assessment?

Cause then it would be called skill-banding. LMAO. and this is why clubs already have multiple level teams based on SKILL.

Actually it is based on size and speed not skill. So they are already are doing biobanding

Anonymous wrote:Why are they so weird about it? Why not band based on a skill assessment?

Cause then it would be called skill-banding. LMAO. and this is why clubs already have multiple level teams based on SKILL.