In the early 19 eighties, roger barnsley and his wife stumbled upon what has come to be known as ther relative age effect. The explanation for who gets to the top of the hawkey world is a lot more interesting and complicated than it looks. Barnsley's wife, paula, started reading the game programme, which had the rosters of both teams listed in it. It just jumped out at us that the majority of these players were january, february and march. And then, you you seemed to get the odd april and may, and very few in the fall.