Franchise is all I get the game for as well. I can't tell you what to do, but here's my plan. Each year I always play several games of Play Now to get the feel for everything that may have changed since the previous year and use this time to adjust my sliders to fit the new version too. This year i'm real excited about the My Skill feature and hoping it will work good, so i'm going to play probably 20 games or so in hopes of getting My Skills adjusted out so the game plays right for me, then I will start my Franchise. I don't stay on the 360 24/7 like some people and never play more than 2 games a night if that, so the 2nd patch should hopefully be out by then. The 1st one is due out tomorrow and I believe they said the 2nd one should be out in a few weeks. Wish I could find the post that talked about it so you could read it yourself, but I don't see it right now.
Here's the thread I mentioned:
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ch-update.html