This is how I will describe what has happened. It is as if some things have been deactivated in the game. You will still notice the re-calculation, the bar change (though some other things will be missing), but it won't have much effect on the final outcome. Someone said that this might be to reduce the load on the servers, which can be it as the associations were causing a lot of problems. But then, the company sacrificed part of what was the 'good' or the 'fun' in the game rather than pausing the associations and restart it when they have upgraded their servers and fix other things. Another reason might be due to all those complaints by '****ty' managers that lost games to lower quality teams but thought they lost unfairly when in fact they lost by tactics. Another reason might be the business side. Briefly, the game is very numb now; matches look like on playback and tactics don't seem to matter much. What seem to matter is the calculation made just before the match has actually shown to be played; hence, the outcomes are more or less pre-determined.