10.1Tiered leagues
RimAttack runs on a tiered league structure. Clubs play their regular season, playoffs and season settlement within their own tier, and each tier carries its own competitive and financial environment while leaving room for the structure to grow.
That gives every season more than one goal: clubs at the top play for the biggest honours and the places that come with them, clubs below play to break upward. Promotion and relegation mean long-term management is judged on more than one season's trophy — it is whether you can hold your ground where you are.
10.2Playoffs
The regular season splits the field into a top sixteen and a bottom sixteen. The top sixteen play for the title; the bottom sixteen play to stay up and for better draft position (which arrives with the draft system).
10.3Promotion and relegation
Promotion and relegation are settled after the season, on final standing rather than the regular season alone. Clubs at the foot of a higher tier go down; clubs that come through the competition at the top of a lower tier go up. The numbers match in both directions, which is what keeps the pyramid and the size of each competition stable.
Going up means a harder league and the financial conditions that come with that tier; going down changes both your opponents and the room you have to work with next season. Afterwards the system redraws the divisions in each league so that every division stays a sensible size. The bottom tier has nowhere further to fall and is not relegated.
So it is not only title contenders who care about the table late on. A club hovering above the drop has to weigh going all out to stay up against protecting its assets early, or preparing for a competitive environment that may be about to change.
10.4Standings and leaderboards
Record, division standing, point differential and final placing are the basic shape of the competition. Leaderboards open up public comparison of single-season play, career totals and club performance. Use them to spot trends, study opponents and look back at your own progress.
Leaderboards are for asking questions, not for handing you conclusions. A player near the top may be there because of his ability, his role, his minutes or his team's pace; a club with a strong record may owe some of it to the schedule, its depth or its finances.
10.5Player and club Fame
Fame records how visible a player or a club is around the league, and the shape of a career. Performances, accumulated achievements and big moments build a player's Fame; a club builds its own identity out of results, history, its arena and how it is run.
Do not read Fame as a strength rating. It is closer to a thread tying results, long-term achievement and your club's story together. For anyone in it for the long haul, Fame and the history pages are what turn a club from this season's roster into a place with generations and a memory.
10.6History and honours
Club history keeps your past seasons, main achievements, titles and notable finishes; player history keeps career numbers and individual arcs. Beyond the nostalgia, these pages let you compare how you built the club at different times: which period worked best, which re-signing or addition turned out to be the hinge, and which combinations of system and personnel actually left something behind.