I think player stats should randomly increase or decrease from season to season instead of all player stats decreasing. Some players should have their stats increse in the offseason because they just get better. It would be more realistic that way. Maybe use age and previous stats or abilities to determine this. Look at the way players in madden or mlb the show progress through the years in seasons. Its not like players would just sit around and say "well since we are getting promoted to a higher league i won't workout in the offseason to compensate for this." Having them all decrease in ability is not very realistic nor fair. Either do that or have a few weeks to just do training to help the players get ready for the new higher league promotion. You could also have the level of your training center factor in to this, or the overall player production from the previous season as well. I'm sure everyone would agree that a complete decrease in player ability going into a new season just isn't right. Other than this, i absolutely love the game!!!