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Originally Posted by MattyC
Well this brings back my point then. If there shows to be an increase in injuries in Bantam that is a very bad thing IMO. Because I think the injuries we see in Bantam are more severe than those in PeeWee purely based on the size and speed of the kids and the differences between them.
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That's actually wrong. The total injury risk was the same. The increase was only seen on injuries requiring more than 7 days to heal and was not substantial (IRR 0.67 CI 0.49-0.99). Catastrophic spinal and brain injuries for these peewee kids are almost 4 times higher than high school and college American football!
Again sacrificing these peewee kids for what does not appear to benefit anyone is foolhardy.