"Selecting players based on a genetic lottery" – a conversation with Professor Sean Cumming
The Talent Equation Podcast
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Premier League - Is There Any Way to Predict Adult Height?
With the Premier League, we use a method called the Camish-Rosh method. It will predict the adult stature of the child. The idea here is that we restrict the variance to these kind of 5 percent of bundles or groups. So when we had a last tournament with Arsenal, Southampton, we had one band which was boys 80 to 85 percent of adult height. These are boys who have not hit puberty yet. And so what we do in our bi-banded tournaments is we will generally look to restrict the variance of the boys within a competition to see a 5 percent band.
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