“He’s Just a Wee Laddie”: The Relative Age Effect in Male Scottish Soccer

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Interesting one this. Massive fan of having flexibility of Q4 kids being able to play in whatever bracket suits them physical wise. Potentially losing a lot of quality neglecting them.

10 Jul 2022

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Interesting read this about Scottish football. With boys getting scouted earlier than ever before, are q4 (not as physically developed) kids getting left behind as academies think short term rather than long term development 😕 https://t.co/BFYdJwRomG

10 Jul 2022

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@ScoutInScotland Interesting data. Do we know if RAE in Scottish pro football was higher/same/lower during '74-'90 than now? An example of current %s taken from this paper as Q1 29.1, Q2 21.5, Q3 24.9, Q4 24.5 (2020). https://t.co/QrTATBjLMJ @JamesDugdale

06 Jun 2022

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RT @JamesDugdale: Our paper - "He's just a wee laddie": The relative age effect in male Scottish soccer - is now published online and open…

28 Jan 2021

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