EA Locker is still there this year. Those files are 99% community made stuff. We're waiting for it this year, unlike last year it was there when the game came out.
It wasnt from EA. It was from the user who got it early.
Since EA dropped the ball on the rosters this year (the problems with the on-disc one, as well as the "fix") most editors were waiting until the roster EA put out (they put out a fix in the Locker last night) to do their edits.