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As a more general observation:
It is really quite amazing - the game really does "slow down" the more you do it.
You are going to come out next year, and you will *immediately* notice that the stuff you had to think about last year comes much more naturally, and hence your brain will be freed up to think about stuff you didn't think about at all the year before. Stuff like point of attack before it happens, tendencies, things like that. When you first start, it seems like it takes all your concentration just to remember where to line up, how to control your chains, adminsitrative things like that.
Soon that will all be second nature, and you will be focusing on the players instead of the administration and mechanics. That is why excellent consistent mechanics are so important, IMO. They need to be second nature - and they will be.
For me, this continues even now, although the *big* difference was the transition from the first couple years to years 4ish or so, as far as how much the game slowed down.
It is very, very cool actually. It is a great feeling when you see things that you didn't see before, and the game all starts clicking together. Give it time.
You also start realizing the things that don't matter, or don't matter as much, and can start filtering that stuff out, giving your mind more ability to focus on the key action of the play.
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