As someone who hasn't really put much effort on the site before the last couple of seasons, I do feel it does make the games a lot more enjoyable when you do so. I think there is a lot of inconsistency with regards to rules, especially those involving a mic and posting a report at the end of the game. I wasn't really a fan of it initially but since it became "compulsory" I've found myself wanting to write them more. I haven't noticed anything being done when they aren't being posted though so people will continue not to do so.
It's helped this year that I'm in a great division in the Pro 10 and have had good close games with Riverman, PatsUK and p4ddy. Getting on with them and having enjoyable games makes me want to play much more. Any time there's a lot of cheese that comes into it with running the same play over and over again (on offence or defence that is), it's easy to get frustrated and want to give it up but at least I know that I'm not getting that in the majority of my games.
I don't post much here on anything not Madden related as I'm more often than not on a different forum if I'm honest, but it seems like the rest of the forums isn't used too much other than big announcements or NFL related things.
The issues with that is that people do not know where to draw the line. You'll get people, especially the players who are good already, running hurry up more and knackering out defences and making it even easier to score. 4th down fakes could be interesting but only on the basis of it being limited over an entire season, the worry is of them getting used too much again.
FA has to be how it is otherwise it just becomes a free for all where the quickest player gets all the best players, it's the fairest way to keep players spread out. If you're not one of the first 10 players on there would be f**k all left.
Pre-season I enjoy personally but I can see why it was moved forward in the Pro10 with the big break between the end of the regular season and the start of the new season. I think everyone just wanted to get back to playing proper games.