hahaha yeah it is pretty absurd... they did such a good job this year in opening up SOME things to us users (custom conferences, editing rosters in dynasty) that you'd think it wouldn't be too difficult to add a little bit about what each slider actually affects
...unless thEAy don't really know themselves...
(see LT/L2 thread)
honestly, when you have a long-running franchise and you change developers with each iteration, it's almost bound to happen (not that I'm happy about it)