I see a repeat of the same thing that Charles said like 3 seasons ago-
We need to train players with more SB and JR. SB to stop inside attacks. JR to make outside attacks effective.
The issue is players without SB and JR have signifigantly cheaper salaries.
For long term and short term planning LI MtM remains the way to go. That will continue to dominate B3 if, as you stated in your answer, the BBs are committed to never developing the GE, salary formulas or training again.
Atleast we know to keep building for LI MtM if we want to win. Thanks!
Yeah, I mean, given the same starting point, two SB pops for a big man will raise the salary as much as one ID pop, one IS pop or one RB pop, but somehow SB is the expensive one. JR costs less for a PG than passing or OD, costs less for a SF than a JS pop, and is slightly more than a JS/OD pop for a SG, but JR is the one and only culprit?
I'm not sure how far out of date the numbers are, but I went into CP and created some test cases, two big men and two guards -- all with 17 in their primary skills and 7 in the secondary. I then set one skill to be 10 instead of 17 and the results are surprising at least to me:
guard 1: 17 in all guard skills, except 10 JR, 7 in all inside skills -> $212308
guard 2: 17 in all guard skills, except 10 DR, 7 in all inside skills -> $225755
center 1: 7 in all guard skills, 17/17/17/10 inside -> $260954
center 2: 7 in all guard skills, 10/17/17/17 inside -> $167936
I wonder how much of this is a self-fulfilling prophecy; 2-3 zone and outside shooting don't work because SB/JR are not trained because they're "too expensive" and they're "too expensive" because they don't work.