Athletes born early within an annual youth age-group selection year are probably more likely to be selected for sports teams and talent development programs than those born later in that year. Overrepresentation of these relatively older athletes in youth and adult sport is known as the relative age effect (RAE). RAEs were found in these popular team sports, probably because the number of youth participants usually exceeds the number of available places, and "talented" athletes are identified, selected, and developed from a young age. Relatively younger athletes have been shown to be more likely to receive higher salaries in German professional soccer and be chosen in the earlier rounds of NHL drafts compared to their relatively older counterparts. Therefore, one might expect to find no RAE or even an overrepresentation of relatively younger athletes in a sample of the most skilled athletes. To test this expectation, the authors examined whether the birth dates of male athletes who had been awarded the most valuable player within their professional team sports demonstrated the RAE. When the expected frequencies of birth dates were held equal across quartiles, the authors found no overrepresentation of relatively older or younger athletes in their sample. Their findings contradict previous RAE research (e.g., Barnsley et al., 1992). However, they found an overrepresentation of relatively younger athletes in their sample when compared to the positively skewed distribution of expected frequencies found in the general population of athletes. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)