Not sure what that post is about. Do you mean to say that you are at a level where you can get away with weak IS because the competition just isn't that good?
No, I mean, unless you count beating a 750k LI team in a PL game as not good competition. I'm playing teams at higher levels and competing with much lower salary and no IS - winning at home, losing respectably in most cases on the road. And not against their scrub lineups, either, but legit competition lineups (for the most part; today's game was an obvious exception). I'm not exactly out there slugging it out with NBBA teams or B3 semifinalists, nor do I think I'd be competitive there, but definitely fighting up a weight class or two.
NOT training IS pops when its FREE in a given build, then you are just being dumb. I'm not saying you are doing that, but some people do, especially in DIII and below USA. Seriously dude, if you look at the salary formula you will find time and again that IS doesn't cost salary up to a given point. If you want to say you don't need to train it beyond that point, I actually can agree with a lot of that, to a point.
Hey, if I could raise IS with no salary implications, no cap implications, and not requiring the training time, I'd absolutely do it. But if I have to train it? If I could have free training weeks, IS would be way down the list of choices - behind OD, JR, PA, ID, RB, and 1v1 for sure, probably behind SB and JS as well.
Either your theory and approach works or it don't. PERIOD. The lower down you go, the less foolproof your strategy needs to be NOT because the teams you are playing have lower/different stats or whatever. But because they are lower quality managers.
At some point, it won't work. I know this. At some point, maybe to be effective defensively 10OD won't be enough, and it'd take 13 or 14. Maybe it'd take 13 or 14 JS and 12 JR to make them effective outside. Maybe they'd need more rebounding and ID than I could afford to put on them, or more passing than I've had time to do. When you have a build that requires at least 8 skills to be effective, 6 of which are slowed by their height, going against guys with far fewer skills required, at some point there's a gap that's too large to be made up. But just because something can't be done in B3 doesn't mean it can't be done for the 99% of users who will never sniff a B3 appearance.
When someone makes DI in a large nation with no IS on any of his players, let me know. If not, all you have is WILD speculation and excuses. Point blank. I'm not just a fan of proof. I require it. Winning a few games in DIII doesn't prove anything. **SNIP**
Point blank. I am fully aware that several managers currently in DIII and below are gonna be DI and maybe even b3 champ one day. I will know who they are when they get there, and if its you, dude you can tell me full on 'I told you so'. And I will say 'You did, props dude'. but if we made such a deal, when yo uare still in DIII in like 5 seasons, how would you respond if I told you, 'I told you so'. You surely wouldn't give any props. YOu'd be pissed.
I've played some top 500 teams. Lost by 13 at Stunners, for example. Beat another one at home. Got smacked around by Yellow Cake's team early in the season. But you also should understand I'm not making B3 promises - I expect my peak will probably be somewhere in II, with the ability to compete with some higher level teams but maybe not the horses to make that leap up to I. Of course, I thought I was going to immediately demote when I moved up to IV and III, so who knows?