[Chuck Kennedy]

Pure speculation, but down the road I think as the current generations under 40 age, they will be more comfortable playing with players with a wider mix of ages and the demand for having age based divisions will diminish in favor of ratings based divisions. There's really little need for age based divisions (and even gender) now. But tradition and familiarity has a strong pull which leads to discussions like this to provide even more narrowly focused age range divisions.