ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
"He's Just a Wee Laddie": The Relative Age Effect in Male Scottish Soccer.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- The Relative Age Effect across an International Soccer Programme in Male and Female Players Aged 12 Years Old to Seniors.Journal of human kinetics · 2024Article
- Relative age effect across the talent identification process of youth female soccer players in the United States: Influence of birth year, position, biological maturation, and skill level.Biology of sport · 2024Article
- Relative age effects in German youth A and B men's soccer teams: survival of the fittest?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- What Variables Allow the Differentiation between More and Less Successful Adolescent Volleyball Players?Journal of human kinetics · 2023Article
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- Men Are from Quartile One, Women Are from? Relative Age Effect in European Soccer and the Influence of Age, Success, and Playing Status.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Effect of Age, Biological Maturation and Birth Quartile in the Kinanthropometric and Physical Fitness Differences between Male and Female Adolescent Volleyball Players.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Low prevalence of relative age effects in Luxembourg's male and female youth football.PloS one · 2022Article
- Successful Young Athletes Have Low Probability of Being Ranked Among the Best Senior Athletes, but This Is Higher When Compared to Their Less Successful Peers.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Physical and Anthropometric Characteristics Do Not Differ According to Birth Year Quartile in High-Level Junior Australian Football Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Are Soccer and Futsal Affected by the Relative Age Effect? The Portuguese Football Association Case.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Selected, Deselected, and Reselected: A Case Study Analysis of Attributes Associated With Player Reselection Following Closure of a Youth Soccer Academy.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
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Abstract
Significant structural, developmental, and financial constraints exist in Scottish soccer that may predicate a different approach to talent identification and development. To our knowledge, no published reports exist evaluating the prevalence of the relative age effect (RAE) in Scottish soccer players. Consequently, the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the RAE among varied playing levels and ages of male Scottish youth soccer players. Birthdates of male youth players (
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