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It's very definitely a boardgame, Jake is a big fan of the boardgames. Player stats determine the success number required for a dice roll, how many dice you get to roll is down to what you're doing and who you are.
There are three types of players, Guards, Jacks, and Strikers. Guards are the guys that hit people, they get extra dice for hitting people and can move full length and hit someone but can't pick up the ball. Strikers are the guys that score goals, they get extra dice for ball handling tests but can't hit people (they can assist a hitting player), they can knock the ball out of their hands or steal it outright though, and Jacks can do any of the above but get no extra dice for anything.
Stats except armour are consistent across a race and you have strength, for hitting, agility, for running and dodging, and skill, for ball handling, armour is determined by position, all humans have the same stat line, all orcs (orx, because this is spaaaace, it's technically part of Mantic's Warpath universe) have the same stat line, etc, different teams have different player balance though. The Veer-myn (space Skaven) have few guards and no jacks, so they're almost all strikers with really high agility but poor ball handling skills, it's really hard to hurt them because they dodge like motherfuckers and really hard to get the ball off them, but they're bloody terrible at scoring. The Marauders, on the other hand, have only Guards and Jacks but no Strikers, and their Guards are the strongest.
The other two teams have all three roles, humans are a good speed team, good at passing play and farming for extra actions (you get 5 actions to spend on your turn, you can spend up to 2 actions on a given player, but some moves will, if you double your required number of successes, grant an extra action), whereas Forge Fathers (dorfs) are a little slower, still good at passing, and really hard to knock down, but they have real trouble getting through tackle zones or moving extra squares without tripping over their beards and getting back up if they do go down.
Dice rolls are opposed, base is you get two dice. So for hitting someone you get two dice, +1 you're a guard, and one more if you move towards them before hitting them (Jacks can only move one square for this). The person you're hitting can either hit back (if they're a guard or jack) or dodge (anyone, strikers get an extra dice). If you hit them from behind they can only dodge. You need more successes than your opponent, if you double them then you get extra win (knocking them over rather than pushing them back, for instance, potentially injuring or killing them, or stealing the ball rather than knocking it loose). If there's no opposition to your action (passing, scoring a goal) then you generally have to get one success.
Every dice roll works the same (Jake is also a fan of having consistent systems repeated throughout a game design, because it makes the game play infinity times faster if you don't have to look up what the dice mean this time.), the only thing that changes is the number of successes you need and the bonus you get for doubling that number.
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