Does the relative age effect influence short-term performance and sport career in team sports? A qualitative systematic review

A de la Rubia, J Lorenzo-Calvo, A Lorenzo - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: The impact on athletes based on grouping methods according to the date of
birth within the constituent year, known as the relative effect of age (RAE), is a factor that can …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the relative age effect on competition performance in basketball: A qualitative systematic review

A de La Rubia Riaza, J Lorenzo Calvo… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Performance in basketball is multifactorial. One of the modifying factors is the “Relative Age
Effect—RAE”. However, its impact depends on the sample characteristics and sport context …

Variations in the relative age effect with age and sex, and over time—Elite-level data from international soccer world cups

AV Pedersen, TK Aune, T Dalen, H Lorås - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The relative age effect (RAE) is a statistical bias observed across sport contexts and consists
of a systematic skewness in birth date distribution within an annual-age cohort. In soccer …

Relative age effect in elite german soccer: influence of gender and competition level

M Götze, MW Hoppe - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The relative age effect (RAE) is associated with (dis) advantages in competitive sports. While
the RAE in elite male soccer reveals a skewed birthdate distribution in relation to a certain …

Youth-to-senior transition in women's and girls' football: Towards a better understanding of relative age effects and gender-specific considerations

PR Brustio, R Modena, G Boccia, M Vogliazzo… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This study aimed to evaluate youth-to-senior transition and the relative age effect in Italian
female football national teams. Birthdate data of 774 female players selected for Under 17 …

Relative age effects and the youth-to-senior transition in Italian soccer: the underdog hypothesis versus knock-on effects of relative age

G Morganti, AL Kelly, G Apollaro… - … and Medicine in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Relative Age Effects (RAEs) appear largely throughout youth soccer. However,
little is known about how RAEs at youth levels can impact transition at senior levels …

The relationship between the relative age effect and performance among athletes in World Handball Championships

A Rubia, CT Bjørndal, J Sánchez-Molina, JM Yagüe… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
This study examines the relative age effect (RAE) and its impact on the performance of elite
male (n= 3,358) and female (n= 3,273) handball players in the U-19 (n= 2,188), U-21 (n …

The new generation of professional soccer talent is born under the bias of the RAE: Relative age effect in International male youth soccer championships

B Pérez-González, J León-Quismondo, J Bonal… - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
In 2019, numerous championships of youth categories soccer national teams were held. In
the present study, we analyzed the existence of the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in four major …

The relative age effect in young athletes: A countywide analysis of 9–14-year-old participants in all competitive sports

SM Gil, I Bidaurrazaga-Letona, J Larruskain, I Esain… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The relative age effect (RAE) has primarily been investigated in male athletes involved in
popular sports and high-level competitions. However, occurrence of RAE in other types of …

Men are from quartile one, women are from? Relative age effect in European soccer and the influence of age, success, and playing status

M Andrew, L Finnegan, N Datson, JH Dugdale - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
The relative age effect (RAE) is characterised by an overrepresentation of athletes born
earlier in the selection year. Whilst an RAE is consistently evident in male soccer …