[Someone]

> can we determine based on a player's month of birth if he could statistically become a good goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, or an attacker?

So, what’s the answer? My guess would be a “no”.

Because of the way age categories are defined, there is a correlation between month of birth and becoming a professional soccer player (https://medium.com/@giacorada/the-fascinating-birth-trend-am...), but I don’t see why these trends would differ between, say, goalkeepers and attackers.

[zafronix]

The answer is no, there is no direction correlation between a successful soccer player in a certain position and their birth month... There are some months that stand out year over year but then you compare them to the GOATs and in most cases GOATs behave as outliers. It was a fun aspect to research though. There are many more scenarios to dig through - venue altitude (https://api.zafronix.com/wc-explorer/stadiums/), player age groups (https://api.zafronix.com/wc-explorer/players/)... data is there... I'm curious to see if there is a scenario that is currently not covered that would be fun to add to enhance the dataset further.