Superstar League menu missing selection options

After completing my avatar player's 24th season, and with two years left on his team contract, the post season menu selections acted strangely.  Vice a couple of advance to next week button options selected before the game went through the motions to simulate the post season and then return to the next season's pre-season game selections:  Training, Community, Game Select etc ..., instead the game forced me to go through four individual weekly advances.

Then, the Superstar League menu screen is regenerated, but my avatar player is suddenly not in his team uniform, but instead the generic road uniform non themed, and worse there are no menu buttons to select from where the options to go through pre-game training, the weekly community interaction, and then ultimately to either advance to the regular season or play the pre-season game.  That area of the menu screen is instead entirely blank.

Also the top menu line where you scroll through from Play to Character to Skills to Stats, to Store is missing the Stats option.  In the Play option all that is displayed below is an X button option to view chapter objectives.

In short there is nothing at all to select to play a game.

If I scroll over to Character, and select Swap Character, I still see the avatar player option and he is dressed in the team uniform for which he was signed.  

I did not see much less select any options to retire my player, void the team contract, or in any way do something that would cause the team to cut me.  I doubt they would since I was the league MVP in the prior season and led the team as QB to the Super Bowl title.

What is going on here?