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Originally posted by Blamo

Discount the benefits, if you want, but you're being completely ignorant. The amount of SP you save by maxing out main stats asap is significant, and it's a gap you'll never be able to close.

With a position like safety with a lot of primaries, the benefit of this form of slow building (soft-cap focus) is small. It is there, but it's small enough to be insignificant. For instance, an OT (with 5 primary skills as well) only gains about 5 SP over the course of season 1, 10 by season 2. Feel free to peruse my proof of this here

http://www.glbwiki.com/index.php?title=Build_Strategies_Comparison

Note that much of it still uses the old training system (I'm working on updating) but the data is still relevant.

If you think about it you can see why. Getting 3 attributes to the softcap (which you can do 1 by level 4, 2 by level 9-10 and 3 by level 14-15) means you're getting the following bonuses by level 22:

Skill 1 capped at level 4: 18*0.4 = 7.2
Skill 2 capped at level 10: 12*0.4 = 4.8
Skill 3 capped at level 15: 7*0.4 = 2.8
which is equivalent to 14.8 "bonus" SPs

However, a distributed build that might follow this route (spending 2/2 in the main skills and distributing the extra 1 over other skills at every level):
Skills 1 & 2 capped at level 12: 10*2*0.4 = 8
Skill 3 capped at level 20: 2*0.4 = 0.8

Which is 8.8 "bonus" SPs, a difference of 6 SPs by level 22.

Not something to blow off, but certainly not enough to make a significant difference in a build. Obviously this is dumbed down as it doesn't consider training.

for a FS just keep tackling at 35 and wrap-up SA at about 3 (don't put too much into SA's IMO) you're job as a safety is to not let anyone past you not force fumbles. you're better off going with a solid number like 30-35 in tackling and then playing on wrap-up you still have a chance to Foce fumbles but the increase you get to making tackles is significant and more important. and plus capping it the otehr 15-20 points can be used for something more useful like speed, agility, or vision. also strength should be at about 20 since really WR's and HB's don't have it to high and on wrap-up you should still be able to take them down but you won't get many fumbles.

the things you should train are confidence and jumping. I put SP's into the stats I need capped ASAP. training jumping and confidence is easier and works quite well. also the superior vision skill is pretty much the only SA that you should put more than 3 levels into.

slow building a FS doesn't really do anything IMO you're better off jumping right in.