Background Subtle differences in chronological age within sport (bi-) annual-age groupings
can contribute to immediate participation and long-term attainment discrepancies; known as …

Annual age-grouping is a common organizational strategy in sport. However, such a
strategy appears to promote relative age effects (RAEs). RAEs refer both to the immediate …

Abstract BIO-BANDING IS THE PROCESS OF GROUPING ATHLETES ON THE BASIS OF
ATTRIBUTES ASSOCIATED WITH GROWTH AND MATURATION RATHER THAN …

ABSTRACT MOORE, SA, HA MCKAY, H. MACDONALD, L. NETTLEFOLD, ADG BAXTER-
JONES, N. CAMERON, and PMA BRASHER. Enhancing a Somatic Maturity Prediction …

ABSTRACT MIRWALD, RL, ADG BAXTER-JONES, DA BAILEY, and GP BEUNEN. An
assessment of maturity from anthropometric measurements. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 34 …

Many children strive to attain excellence in sport. However, although talent identification and
development programmes have gained popularity in recent decades, there remains a lack of …

Children born shortly before the cutoff date for age grouping in youth sport programs suffer
from being promoted to higher age groups earlier than their later-born peers. Skewed …

atively small number of trials and untrained individuals (novices) are used as participants.
Such approaches have proven useful in addressing such issues as variability of practice …

The potential asymmetries in the birth-date distributions of youth soccer players across ten
European countries (2175 age citations) were considered. First, we examined the birth …

Individual differences in the growth and maturation have been shown to impact player
performance and development in youth soccer. This study investigated Premier League …