I see this forum isn't that alive, but I do need to point out one other strange thing (besides the lack of any kind of clock management or tempo control when you're manually playing a game).
When I made the playoff, my team was set to AI-controlled and I couldn't manually play either the semi-final game or the championship.
Is that intentional?
When the season finished, everything was back to normal and I could play the next season's games normally.