My Player Career of Ronnie2K - Name, Customize, and Promote a Shoe: Among the companies that want Ronnie to endorse their product, he was given a lucrative deal to name his shoe. With permission from his childhood hero Michael Jordan and Brand Jordan, he names the shoe "Air Singh" and they become the hottest selling sneaks on the planet.
Not Important but I'm guessing we still can't choose Headband colors, etc. from the pic. Still stuck with those same options on accessories :/ but the faces do look better.
Based off of a preview I read on Gamespot, you don't have to play the whole season in MyPlayer. You can play key matchups, and believe they're relative to you're position. There's a thread with the link to the preview, but I'm not sure if 2K wants to keep that under wraps and OS knows it.
Also, it said there were more attributes to "individualize" your player, along with attribute upgrades costing more to upgrade altogether, so you'll have to save up. That could explain the higher overall; Gonna get less points to start out with, plus attributes cost more, so you have to be able to compete early (Which is how is should be anyway).