Bio-banding in soccer: past, present, and future

Towlson, Chris; Cumming, Sean P.

doi:10.1080/03014460.2022.2129091

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“…provided a challenging game environment that gave less mature players the opportunity to demonstrate key skills and psychological characteristics considered desirable during the IT process, which could possibly be hidden during a CA competition. While this may be true, it needs to be addressed in better detail, and special attention should be paid to the impact of BB on talent assessments (Towlson & Cumming, 2022).…”

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Bio-banding in soccer: Benefits on performance, psychological development and its influence on talent identification

2023

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the existing evidence on the use of Bio-banding (BB) and its possible benefits at the physical and technical-tactical level, psychological development, and talent identification (TI).A search was performed following the guidelines for rapid reviews and the PRISMA guide in Scopus and PudMed.The following keywords were entered: ('Bio-banding') AND ('soccer'). We included n = 10 articles and identified the following variables for analysis: a) Technical-tactical and physical aspects with BB, b) Experiences and psychological aspects through BB, and c) BB in TI. The studies on BB reflect that, during the use of this strategy, great variability of technical-tactical and physical aspects was presented, which favored all maturation groups. Likewise, it is evident that it is a tool that contributes to the psychological development of the players, where it is necessary to expand research on its functionality in the TI process.

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Bio-banding in soccer: Benefits on performance, psychological development and its influence on talent identification

2023

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“…These psychological aspects are important for talent identification, as late-maturing players have been characterised as being achievement-oriented and highly skilled (between 13 and 14 years; [16]), which might be linked, in part, to the onset and cessation of peak height velocity (PHV) [17,18]. For instance, our previous findings have shown that performing in maturity mis-matched (i.e., late maturing versus early maturing) categorised groups of players (using 'bio-banding'; [19][20][21]) during small-sided games provides late-maturing players with a mis-matched environment which allows them to exhibit a number of desirable psychological characteristics [22]. This maturity-related performance phenomena can be in part explained by the 'underdog hypothesis' [15,23], which proposes that late-maturing players may have established enhanced psychological skills that permit them to compete with their more mature team mates on equal terms [23].…”

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A new method to identify key match-play behaviours of young soccer players: Development of the Hull Soccer Behavioural Scoring Tool

Robinson,

Cumming,

Salter

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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The aim of this research was to assess the validity and reliability of a newly developed scoring tool, designed for monitoring youth soccer players during match-play performance to support coaches/scouts with the talent identification process. The method used to design the Hull Soccer Behavioural Scoring Tool comprised of a five-stage process of (i) conducting an initial literature review to establish content validity (ii) gaining content validity through a cross sectional online survey (iii) establishing face validity via expert coach feedback (iv) conducting inter-rater reliability tests and (v) intra-rater reliability tests. In stage two, twenty-two soccer academy practitioners completed an online survey, which revealed that player behaviours such as resilience, competitiveness, and decision making were all valued as the most important behavioural characteristics by practitioners (90.9%), whilst X-factor was valued as least important by a significant amount (27.2%). Stages three to five of the testing procedure included a sample of four academy coaches not involved in the preceding stage. Twenty male collegiate soccer players (under-16 to under-18) involved in the study took part in four versus four small-sided games (SSG) in a ‘round-robin’ tournament across three weeks which accumulated 14 SSG’s, 100–140 minutes of playing time and 70–98 individual player grades. Two of the four academy coaches watched the SSG’s and used the Hull Soccer Behavioural Scoring Tool to assess live evidence of desirable player behaviours, which was subsequently followed by retrospective video analysis for intra-rater reliability testing. The remaining two academy coaches watched the same SSG retrospective video footage to test for inter-rater reliability. Reliability results revealed an acceptable level of agreement with scores between 81.25%—89.9% for inter-rater whilst intra-rater provided scores between 80.35%—99.4%. Preliminary evidence here suggests that the Hull Soccer Behavioural Scoring Tool is both a valid and reliable method to assess desirable player behaviours during talent identification processes. Thus, youth soccer practitioners and researchers should seek to test and further validate the tool in order to confirm its utility as a means of measuring behavioural characteristics of youth soccer players.

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Is Biobanding the Future of Youth Sport Participation?

Chimera,

Falk,

Klentrou

et al. 2024

Pediatric Exercise Science

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Traditionally, sports participation has been based on the chronological age of the individual with year of birth determining participation grouping. However, grouping by chronological age can result in individuals who are nearly a full year different in age competing within the same age group. Moreover, during the pubertal years, age grouping may provide physical (size) advantage to early maturers and disadvantage to late maturers. These advantages/disadvantages could impact talent selection, psychosocial aspects of sport participation, technical and tactical skill development, competitiveness, and injury risk. Biobanding is an alternative method for determining sport participation categorization and uses factors of growth and/or maturation, rather than traditional chronological age, for grouping athletes. Implementation of biobanding in sports may be advantageous to both early and late-maturing athlete development.

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Bio-banding in soccer: past, present, and future

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Bio-banding in soccer: Benefits on performance, psychological development and its influence on talent identification

Bio-banding in soccer: Benefits on performance, psychological development and its influence on talent identification

A new method to identify key match-play behaviours of young soccer players: Development of the Hull Soccer Behavioural Scoring Tool

Is Biobanding the Future of Youth Sport Participation?

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