ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2021
Talent Identification and Relative Age Effects in English Male Rugby Union Pathways: From Entry to Expertise.
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- Relative Age Effects in Male Cricket: A Personal Assets Approach to Explain Immediate, Short-Term, and Long-Term Developmental Outcomes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Prevalence of the relative age effect among high-performance, university student-athletes, versus an age-matched student cohort.South African journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- Physical and Anthropometric Characteristics Do Not Differ According to Birth Year Quartile in High-Level Junior Australian Football Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Relative Age Effects in Basketball: Exploring the Selection into and Successful Transition Out of a National Talent Pathway.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Talent Identification in an English Premiership Rugby Union Academy: Multidisciplinary Characteristics of Selected and Non-selected Male Under-15 Players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
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Abstract
A common practice in youth rugby union is to group players based on (bi)annual age with fixed cut-off dates. The overrepresentation of players born at the start of the cut-off date and the underrepresentation of players born toward the end of the cut-off date are termed relative age effects (RAEs). The aim of this study was to examine RAEs during entry into professional and international rugby union pathways in England, as well as comparing them to their respective senior cohort: U15 Regional Academy Player (
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