Bio-Banding Coming to OYSA

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Finally all the overgrown gorillas will get lumped together so they can thugball each other out of existence all day long

https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/201...ing-initiative

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Sounds like some bs

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Depends on the high school. A lot of local soccer programs are lousy--but a bootball playing freshman, even if physically mature, is going to get destroyed a lot of seniors.



Kids should play where they are challenged. Obviously if a kid is playing up a year and still dominating, there's not much that can be done... but lots of middle-schoolers who should be playing up aren't; instead trying for the golden boot in their club. In the DA program especially, this is problematic.

Many of these kids are skilled as well, but their coaches and parents are doing them a disservice.



C teams are for unskilled kids. That includes those who are sufficiently unathletic that they cannot compete in higher levels, even if technically sound, but most C teamers have significiant deficiencies in their games unrelated to size, speed, or athleticism.

MY kid, I'm not worried about--going against the monsters is probably good for him. He's in the middle of the growth range. As the article notes, the kids screwed by this are a) the early bloomers who aren't challenged, and b) the late bloomers who get cut or demoted, and no longer get to enjoy the developmental challenges of top-flight teammates and competition.

But too many coaches--and parents--are focused on wins rather than on long-term development, with the result that some kids who probably should be on the A team based on skill, instead find themselves on the B team. (And this, unfortunately, includes our club). I bet an eighth DA team could be fielded strictly from the top 2-3 players on all the DA club's B teams, and that it would at least be reasonably competitive with the right coach.

This is what the new development team looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCaGcgwnHcw

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Rumor has it they are Bio-Banding at the next World Cup. Mixing players up based on size so tiny players only play tiny players. Big players only play big players.

This will purify the game so fast players no longer have an advantage. Same with strong players.

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Rumor has it they are Bio-Banding at the next World Cup. Mixing players up based on size so tiny players only play tiny players. Big players only play big players.

This will purify the game so fast players no longer have an advantage. Same with strong players.

05 Crossfire dad just wet himself!

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It's amazing how many of you idiots a) didn't read the article or b) read the article and still don't understand what it means.

bio-banding isn't to help small kids play small kids, or big kids to play up. It's to help challenge kids who are early bloomers by playing them with similar kids, as well as develop kids who are late bloomers who at this time (in all sports) will be drop from teams and never have the ability to succeed once they catch up in size. It's not going to build different teams, but it might allow a very small, late December baby to play down a year so she's challenged appropriately, while encouraging a larger-than-average January baby to play up a year so he's challenged (instead of playing to win)

The big problem, and why bio-banding won't work is because pay-to-play sports is also play-to-win. Development takes a back seat to wins, so coaches will hold on to that big kid, and try to game the system by shuttling their best "smaller" kids down to younger teams in the name of winning.

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Rumor has it they are Bio-Banding at the next World Cup. Mixing players up based on size so tiny players only play tiny players. Big players only play big players.

This will purify the game so fast players no longer have an advantage. Same with strong players.

That will help balance the competition out so the bigger stronger faster players don't get all the glory. Need to get the smaller slower weaker players some success.

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That will help balance the competition out so the bigger stronger faster players don't get all the glory. Need to get the smaller slower weaker players some success.

It is not all about size, but maturity and biological age.

Your kid may be small, but if she has large breasts she may have to play up a few years.