By now people here know there's an issue with associations. After the first year trades drop to very few each year, generally three trades in season 2 and one or two in subsequent seasons. FA signings don't happen after year 1. Top rated players, even those with 90+ ratings, sit in the FA pool.
It is discussed in this thread in Op Sports:
http://www.operationsports.com/vBulleti ... roken.html
It has been discovered that a big part of the reason for these issues is that there are too many players in draft classes with ratings 70 and above. This influx of decent and even superstar talent each year removes the need for CPU teams to trade or sign FA's to meet their goals.
One question I have in all this is how are draft classes saved? It is clear how to edit them, but how do people save them so others can download them?