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 …

Basketball talent identification: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the anthropometric, physiological and physical performance factors

M Han, MA Gómez-Ruano, AL Calvo… - Frontiers in Sports and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The purpose of this study was to do a systematic review and meta-analysis
about the anthropometric, physiological, and physical performance that discriminate the …

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 …

Effects of chronological age, relative age, and maturation status on accumulated training load and perceived exertion in young sub-elite football players

JE Teixeira, AR Alves, R Ferraz, P Forte, M Leal… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The aims of this study were 1) to analyze the influence of chronological age, relative age,
and biological maturation on accumulated training load and perceived exertion in young sub …

Performance progression of elite jumpers: Early performances do not predict later success

G Boccia, M Cardinale… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed (a) to estimate the transition rate for top 50 ranked track and field
jumpers,(b) to compare the performance progression of top 50 ranked senior jumpers (top50 …

Are soccer and futsal affected by the relative age effect? The Portuguese Football Association case

P Figueiredo, A Seabra, M Brito, M Galvão… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A better understanding of the relative age effect (RAE) in youth will increase the awareness
of the need for reducing the bias of (de) selection. Thus, we investigated the RAE in youth …

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 …

“Birthday-banding” as a strategy to moderate the relative age effect: a case study into the England squash talent pathway

AL Kelly, DT Jackson, JJ Taylor, MA Jeffreys… - Frontiers in Sports and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The relative age effect (RAE) is almost pervasive throughout youth sports, whereby relatively
older athletes are consistently overrepresented compared to their relatively younger peers …

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 …