Tag: youth sports

  • The Talent Identification Trap: Relative Age Effect

    The Talent Identification Trap: Relative Age Effect

    An eleven-month age gap in youth sport can look exactly like a talent gap, and coaches consistently select for it. This article covers the relative age effect, why the resulting skill gap often isn’t real, and the specific point in elite development where the bias quietly corrects itself, too late for many of the players…