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?