I finally had a chance to sit down for a bit yesterday to start playing. I got in one Play Now game to get a feel for things. I changed the slider settings (I use some made from a guy on the Operation Sports forums who did them years ago with the old games) that were producing some good results. @antipop, you may find that slider adjustments will help with defense issues. I was never able to log into the EA servers at all yesterday. My son played for much longer than I did and wasn't able to log in either. I would assume that this being the first weekend the game is out for everyone, their servers are getting slammed. You would think that EA would have realized this was going to happen, though, since an 11-year wait built up a bit of anticipation for the game. It sure would be nice if they invested a bit more into their servers.