A regression-discontinuity study finds that a suburban football association's 1 January grading cutoff produces an 18.6-percentage-point jump in representative-squad selection, robust to bandwidth choice and three placebo cutoffs. It reports the quarterly, appeal-free capability index the association's Grading Panel has adopted in response, and the index's qualifying score across its first five resets.
| Authors | Osei Vandermeer, Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Dagny Okafor |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.f66jy8 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 6 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_f66jy8,
author = {Osei Vandermeer and Ingeborg Nwachukwu and Dagny Okafor},
title = {A Birth-Date Cutoff Predicts Representative Selection Better Than a Season of Play},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.f66jy8},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-birth-date-grading-f66jy8/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}