Soccer

About The Game
Soccer was the second game released by PPM out of beta testing.

Seasons
There are 112 days in a season. There are 22 teams in each league and in each season there are 42 league matches to be played. Matches are played on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Each win is worth 3 points, a tie worth 1, and loss gives 0 points. Ties are broken goal difference. At the end of the season the winner of the league is promoted to a higher league, the runner-up plays in a promotion round to decided if it is promoted or not. 3rd through 14th stay in the same league next season. 15th through 18th play against the runner-ups in lower leagues to try to prevent relegation. 19th-22nd automatically are relegated to a lower league and are replaced by the champions of these leagues.

League system
Leagues are made up as follows: One top teir league I.1, 4 second tier leagues II.3 etc., 16 third tier leagues e.g.III.14, each tier is made up of 4 times the amount of leagues than tier higher than it. So the fourth tier would be made up of 64 leagues, fifth tier has 256 leagues, sixth tier has 1024 leagues, and so on. Each league is designated by a combination of Roman and Arabic numerals. IV.53 means that the league is in the fourth tier, and it is the 53rd league in that tier.

Regrouping
At the end of each season teams are regrouped so that all of the non-managed teams can be removed so that there are fewer empty leagues. This often means that some leagues are completely removed and teams are moved to a higher tier.

Teams
Each team must have at least 11 players on their roster. If the player number ever drops below this, the manager will be fired. 30 players is the maximum amount before the teams is required to pay extra. If a teams doesn't have 8 players avalible to take part in a match, the match will be forfeit.

Overall Rating
Overall rating is the easist indicator to determining the strength of a team. Rating shows fan popularity and sponsorship popularity as well. The team rating grows with each win, and tie. A regular time loss is the only time that the rating does not grow. After each season, overall team rating is reduced by 30%, 20% is the team is getting promoted to a higher tier. Stadium atendence and sponsorship deals get better as team rating grows.

To be continued....