• Born to win? Investigating the relative age effect in the big five European women's football leagues 

      Pérez-González, Benito; Iván-Baragaño, Iyán; Bonal, José; León-Quismondo, Jairo; Fernández-Luna, Álvaro; Burillo, Pablo (Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2025)
      Introduction: This study examines the presence of the Relative Age Effects (RAEs) among players in the top five European women's football leagues during the 2023/24 season. Methods: A total of 1,634 professional players ...
    • Relative Age Effect on basketball. The case of Chinese professional basketball players 

      Bonal, José; León-Quismondo, Jairo; Fernández-Luna, Álvaro; Burillo, Pablo; Pérez-González, Benito (Journal of Sport and Health Research, 2024)
      The Relative Age (RA) consists of an asymmetry in the birth distribution, involving an overrepresentation of people born in the first months of the year playing different activities. Out of Europe, the background and ...