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There is nothing wrong in people knowing multiskill players are superior, the BBs have been trying to promote multiskill players over mono-monsters from the start.

You will NOT dominate with a team of 5-8 players on 30k salary on PTB and Man to Man. The difference the side skills lend at this point aren't that profound, and will offer a slight advantage but not an overwhelming one. Tactics, your choice of starters, HCA and enthusiasm all will still play a factor without the sum of your players' skills stifling them out.

you could build those easily with 30k players, too with the different that all skills are weeker^^

Like the example Josef Ka gave? I am not sure how easy it would be to create player B in his example. With 67 pops needed in outside skills for a big man, no one will want to spen 8 mil on him, he will be in his 30s :) (40s?)

Great post, well thought out and articulated argument. I think the major flaw in your idea is that it limits the plans and cushion the well established teams have in place for thier future. Imagine the reaction of teams allready over the cap when they are told to start making cuts? Taxing the rich makes for a short political career, to borrow a phrase.

I think it is a great thing that you place the future of the game over protecting your situation. Kudos

if the other players play with 30k A-skiller, then you will have those advantage, i used 30k why you say expense multiskillers are too expense to stay in cap ;)

And 10-20% stronger players make a big difference, for sure.

Thank you for the support, Heathcoat.

I do admit it is a bitter pill to swallow for the big boys now and forces them to explore team improvement in other avenues instead of financial means. Imagine the injustice if you've laid low for the previous few seasons and planned to blitz your way to glory just before the BBs implement a change like this. Your pool of money will still definitely help, but it won't be on a scale as it was before. On the plus side, they do get a headstart over other teams yet to hit the cap. Most new changes will definitely create ripples somewhere, and I would rather have it that us bigger teams are the ones who will have to challenge ourselves to adapt to the new changes rather than the smaller and newer teams who have it difficult enough already. After all, the future of the game is our future as well.

You're definitely right when you say taxing the rich makes for a short political career. I don't think I would win any popularity polls should this become reality.


@Josef,

Yes, looks to be the case. The lower the salary range we are talking about, the weaker the effect of contributing side skills. So side skill configuration (Be it more heavily on Driving, or more Passing, or being more crazy OD?) is essentially a tweak on how the team plays on court at more practical levels instead of being an overwhelmingly large factor in the case of our hypothetical 300k salary case study player.

With teams mostly looking at multi skill players within an acceptable range, side skill tweaks are an interesting dimension of how your team eventually functions on court. A team of good drivers against a team of good passers? Who would you bet on?