In all honesty, I plan on picking up a used copy and playing in my league. I am no longer running it as I have passed the torch, but it is still quality and the guys are fun to talk to and play the game with. The amount of work to run an online franchise up to this point was beyond ridiculous. I put in a ton of hours in building a web site, writing 3 solid rule books (gameplay, league, team management), having everything organized to the point of me being crazy (I'm a bit OCD). Without XFN (which did a nice job) it would have been impossible. That being said, the way you feel about the missing stuff is how I feel with respect to the gameplay. Madden pales in comparison to APF in that department and that game is a 5 year old port of an 8 year old game. I have little to no faith in the people producing the gameplay, but Looman is the one guy I actually think has some real talent there. This mode is really really late to the party, but it is finally something I think they did right.