Haha! I knew that had to be it. I don't know why it's like that but sliders always take about a game or two to settle in. It been like that for years. I don't know why they won't kick in right away. I usually kick the ball off then restart my game about 2 or 3 times to get the sliders to settle in.. If I feel like the CPU is playing like crap I'll restart it again.. So you should start doing that from now on whenever you tweak a slider. Let me know how your games go..