simple as that. i hate having  to go back and find that my skills have degraded. anyone else agree

I actually don't have the game, but that sounds awful. 
 
Also, this: 

I just find myself power leveling each attribute until I get it to either 30, 50 or 70 as it wont drop below those numbers once you get there. Can be very annoying early on though.  Try to use Game Plan as well as it can give +10 to some stats, depending on how you set it, which is a huge boost when your starting out.

" I just find myself power leveling each attribute until I get it to either 30, 50 or 70 as it wont drop below those numbers once you get there. Can be very annoying early on though.  Try to use Game Plan as well as it can give +10 to some stats, depending on how you set it, which is a huge boost when your starting out. "

most annoying contrivance ever

Yep, I just lost to Machida because he subbed me ludicrously easily because my stats had degraded to 0, in order for them not to degrade i'd have to constantly pump stats into it.......meaning that the stats i need would go down, yeah awesome

@TENROE    ROFL.... 30/50/70

I get that it's supposed to make things more realistic, since if you don't train those abilities you won't know how to use them in a fight.
 
That being said, in real life fighters don't do a single 2 minute sparring session in one week.