Structure
Relative Age Effect
The selection edge held by players born just after the cutoff date.
Inside one age group a player can be up to 364 days older than a teammate, and the older ones tend to be further along physically, which is what gets noticed at a tryout. Moving the cutoff date does not remove the effect, it only changes which birthdays are the young ones.
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