Curious as to folks' thoughts on this. Son has played both as he has mid summer birthday. He's eerily the same player stat-wise. Just feel like he's given more of a chance because overall size disparity is less when playing age level. My feeling is that observers/ decision makers haven't made up their mind preemptively by body size as much. Just standing there, he most certainly does NOT look the part (yet, always working on it). His stats and body of work suggest otherwise. He's goin up against older bigger kids during HS season. Almost a moot point since his travel team will likely play "up" by age anyway, and almost certainly so when it really matters at 16-17U. For now, the level of competition he would play at "age" level ironically is almost certainly higher than what he would play at "grade" level for travel. Just wanted to get some feedback. Thanks
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