Iliad All Stars
Week 2 Recap
DJGG Explodes While Radiogirl19 Free-Falls
Week 2 delivered one seismic beatdown, one bench-management crime scene, and a power ranking swing biblical enough to require a new testament. DJGG dropped the week's biggest number and its biggest blowout in the same breath, rocketing four spots up the power rankings while Radiogirl19 tumbled five spots the other direction after a Detroit Lions no-show sabotaged an otherwise fine outing. Four teams sit tied at 2-0 atop the standings, four sit tied at 0-2 in the basement, and the gap between them is already starting to look like a canyon. Bench efficiency was an adventure across the board this week, with more than one manager leaving a spare starter's worth of points stranded on the pine. Buckle up.
Awards of the Week
LVP of the Week
79.86 pts
Lowest scoring team this week
Heretoplay1's 79.86 was the week's basement number, but at least it came with a tidy 94.1% bench efficiency — small mercies for a team that's now 1-1 and looking for answers.
Bust
-1.00 pts from Detroit Lions
A starter who completely no-showed
Radiogirl19's Detroit Lions defense somehow finished at -1.00 points, actively subtracting from the scoreboard. That's not a bad week, that's a defense that should be waived on principle.
Benchwarmer Hero
27.98 pts (Matthew Stafford on bench)
Outscored a starter who put up -0.10 pts
TouchDownSeagal benched Matthew Stafford, who mustered a ghostly -0.10 points, while the replacement on the bench racked up 27.98. It worked out this time, but that's the kind of lineup call that ages very poorly, very fast.
The Matchups
MobBossAlexis improves to 2-0 by outlasting ShotgunJackson 99.46 to 84.26, but let's talk about that bench, Alexis — 17.92 points left stranded and just an 84.73% bench efficiency rate is not how a contender operates. ShotgunJackson, meanwhile, actually ran a tighter ship at 94.08% efficiency and still lost, which is the kind of thing that should keep you up at night at 0-2. The scoreboard says blowout-adjacent, the process says both of these rosters have homework to do.
ShotgunJackson left 5.30 on the bench (94% of ceiling) · MobBossAlexis left 17.92 on the bench (85% of ceiling)
pobenauer cruises to 125.4 and a 2-0 start, comfortably outscoring HailMaryZukin's 95.34 by over 30 points. But the real story is Zukin's bench, which put up 35.44 points that never got to play — a brutal 72.9% efficiency mark that turned a competitive roster into a laughingstock. Zukin, somewhere on your bench there's a lineup that wins this game outright, and you left it sitting there.
pobenauer left 8.42 on the bench (94% of ceiling) · HailMaryZukin left 35.44 on the bench (73% of ceiling)
TouchDownSeagal handles Heretoplay1 106.48 to 79.86, and Heretoplay1 walks away with the dubious honor of the week's lowest score, the LVP crown, and a tidy 94.1% bench efficiency that didn't matter one bit because the ceiling just wasn't there. But the real headline belongs to Seagal's bench, where Matthew Stafford's -0.10 pts got outscored by 27.98 points sitting on the pine — the Benchwarmer Hero award practically wrote itself. Seagal, you won anyway, but that lineup call deserves an investigation.
TouchDownSeagal left 17.30 on the bench (86% of ceiling) · Heretoplay1 left 5.00 on the bench (94% of ceiling)
DJGG didn't just win, DJGG committed war crimes, dropping a league-best 133.22 on Nvjend's 95.7 for the week's biggest blowout at 37.52 points. That performance alone was enough to launch DJGG four spots up the power rankings into second place — an absolutely biblical rise off one MVP-caliber week. Funny enough, DJGG still left 24.7 points on the bench at 84.36% efficiency, which means this demolition happened with the safety on; Nvjend, 0-2 with 229.86 points for, your season is cursed by schedule, not talent.
Nvjend left 17.50 on the bench (85% of ceiling) · DJGG left 24.70 on the bench (84% of ceiling)
Jely71 survives the week's tightest game, edging FoolessClue 98.68 to 88.42 for the Nail Biter honors and doing it with a nearly flawless 99.5% bench efficiency — only half a point unused. FoolessClue can't say the same, leaving 23.8 points stranded at a 78.79% clip in a game decided by 10.26; that's the difference between 1-1 and 0-2 sitting on your own bench. FoolessClue, the roster's there, the button-pushing isn't.
Jely71 left 0.50 on the bench (99% of ceiling) · FoolessClue left 23.80 on the bench (79% of ceiling)
Trkimmell stays perfect at 2-0, riding a monster 42.50-point performance from Jaxon Smith-Njigba to a comfortable 118.98-83.02 win over Radiogirl19. Radiogirl19's night was sunk by the Bust of the week, a Detroit Lions defense that posted -1.00 points, and the disaster didn't stop there — Radiogirl19 also authored the week's single biggest power-ranking collapse, tumbling five spots down to rank six. Trkimmell now leads the league in points for; Radiogirl19, it might be time to bench that defense before it costs you again.
Trkimmell left 5.40 on the bench (96% of ceiling) · Radiogirl19 left 11.70 on the bench (88% of ceiling)
Power Rankings
Rank trajectory through this week, best at the top — same rankings as the Power Rankings page.
| Manager | W1 | W2 |
|---|---|---|
| Trkimmell | 3 | 1 |
| DJGG | 6 | 2 |
| MobBossAlexis | 4 | 3 |
| pobenauer | 8 | 4 |
| Nvjend | 2 | 5 |
| Radiogirl19 | 1 | 6 |
| Heretoplay1 | 5 | 7 |
| TouchDownSeagal | 10 | 8 |
| HailMaryZukin | 7 | 9 |
| ShotgunJackson | 9 | 10 |
| Jely71 | 11 | 11 |
| FoolessClue | 12 | 12 |
Four teams sit tied at 2-0 atop the standings — Trkimmell, DJGG, MobBossAlexis, and pobenauer — while four more, including ShotgunJackson and FoolessClue, are already staring up from 0-2. It's early, but the gap between the penthouse and the basement is starting to look permanent.
The Bottom Line
DJGG's 133.22-point demolition of Nvjend was the week's headline act, catapulting them four spots up the power rankings into second place while Radiogirl19 free-fell five spots the other way thanks to a Detroit Lions defense that actively lost them points. Spare a thought for HailMaryZukin and FoolessClue, who combined to strand nearly 60 points on their benches in losses they arguably should've won with better button-pushing. Meanwhile Jely71 and TouchDownSeagal both proved that winning ugly — whether by 10.26 points or by outscoring your own bench mistake — still counts the same in the standings. Four teams are 0-2 and running out of patience; next week somebody in that basement needs to find their Jaxon Smith-Njigba moment before the season starts writing itself without them.
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