ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2020
Revisiting the Relative Age Effect From a Multidisciplinary Perspective in Youth Basketball: A Bayesian Analysis.
Article in Frontiers in sports and active living, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Testing The Effects of Player Matching in Basketball Matches and Small-Sided Game Training Scenarios Based on The Relative Age Effect: A 6-Month Study on Physical Performance and Skill Adaptations.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2025Trial
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- Relative age effect and development pathways in French basketball: from youth training structures to senior national teams.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Relative age effect and its impact on athletic performance among Chinese elite youth male basketball players.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The relative age effect and the relationship between biological maturity and athletic performance in Austrian elite youth soccer players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Mismatches in youth sports talent development.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
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- Does early specialization provide an advantage in physical fitness development in youth basketball?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
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Abstract
Relative age effect (RAE) is considered to bias the selection of young athletes and a cause of exclusion of many participants. The goal of the study was to unveil the effects of the birth quarter on physical performances and a set of psychological constructs in the age groups corresponding to the specialization years. A set of surveys with cross-sectional data collected from 2015 to 2019 in youth basketball was used. Three hundred and twenty-seven Brazilian players (127 females, 100 males), mean age 14.0 years, participated in the study. Counter-movement jump, line-drill, yoyo intermittent test, achievement goals, motivation for deliberate practice, and enjoyment were measured. Bayesian multilevel regression was performed. RAE was observed but its advantages did not persist and did not differentiate the players in the variables under scrutiny. The only predictor of athletic and psychological outcomes was chronological age. The initial advantage that triggered the coaches' decision to select individual players disappears during the specialization years. Coaches must overcome the superficial observation of young athletes based only on age groups and actual performances, avoiding hasty decisions that, unlike RAE, last in time and cannot be reversed.
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