JR is irrelevant to cap and salary in that example, if you wanted you could increase it almost at no extra cost, but since PA and OD are the same, it would make sense to focus heavily on those.
Maybe we are having parallel conversations: I just tried to show what difference higher JS and not punting SB (or another inside skill) has on the salary and cap of a player, because Bora mentioned there are prospects who could be improved, but aren't because the owners are worried about the salary.
The first player is salary efficient to an extreme extent and in fact you need near perfect initial skills and then control while training to pull that off. I bet you will find exactly 0 players with 56 TSP in their top 3 inside skills and less than 180k salary even if you check the TL every day for 2 straight seasons, that's how abnormally low that salary is. The reality of the situation is that if you start with 7/7/7/7 IS/ID/RB/SB, the player will train faster, but at the end of the journey you will struggle to both contain the salary and manage the cap, in particular if you are trying to punt anything other than IS.
I've had a player (Ma Anhui) where I punted IS (he had 12/18/18/18 inside skills). I personally don't think it works in a NT setting, the scoring just isn't enough even if both bigs have 18-20 SB and the entire team has higher than normal SB (as shown by Nachtmahr's Germany NT teams) although it is efficient salary-wise, so it could work in a club setting, but I would suggest to still stop at 16 RB and get more of the other skills than I did (my player was also an MVP not HoF). When these bigs with elite SB (even 19 or 20) face a guy like Corral or Innes, who also had a lot better outside scoring and more DR than Corral, they still give up fairly efficient scoring (my guy was a couple of years younger than Innes and they played several times).
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