2025 Points Race Update (October)

There's only three cycles left in the 2025 IWA Report year and we have a new leader in the Managers points race for the first time since April as Tommy Zulu has overtaken Jake Duvall for the top spot. However, due to the recent and abrupt retirement from Duvall, expectations are that this will be the first uncontested finish to the points race since Rich Reilly broke records en route to winning the crown in 2021.

Anchored by what may go down as the winningest multi-man year in the game's history, Zulu now has a 100 point lead over Duvall and a 485 point lead over the next closest challenger, Frank Belcher. He also has an outside shot at hitting Reilly's all-time single season points record (5175 on the AI scale, set in 2021), needing 1185 points to tie the record. That breaks down to 395 points per cycle. If he were to hit a multi-man sweep in each of the three remaining cycles, that would leave him with an additional 145 points needed per cycle. This will be a difficult feat to accomplish, but it is not outside the realm of possibility.

It remains to be seen whether Duvall garnered enough points over 12 cycles to keep him planted inside of the top-5 for the year. That should prove to be a difficult mantle for him to hang onto as there's a strong crop of managers within striking distance of that #2 spot currently. A close battle to keep an eye on is for the current #3 spot (which will soon become the #2 spot) as a mere 25 points separates Frank Belcher and Derek Tuttle. Belcher has been hot of late, sitting as low as the #6 spot just three cycles ago. Nipping at both of their heels as well is the ever-dangerous Solomon Shaw, just 120 points behind Tuttle. And, then also within striking distance of the top-5 is the EDGE duo of Brad Norman and Steve Deane.

Barring catastrophe, these seven managers each seem destined to finish the year within the top-10. The chase for the remaining three coveted spots is sure to be a rat race, though, with only 315 points separating #8 David Silliman and #15 Mitchell Johnson.

In the stable race, SOS continues to hold the same commanding lead that its held the entire year over the defending champs, EDGE. With a 1200 point lead, it seems to be a foregone conclusion that SOS will win its first championship since 2019 despite EDGE's best efforts. The gap between #2 EDGE and #3 CURE is even larger (2545 points) and so it seems that with three cycles to go, our top-5 in stables is pretty set with SOS, EDGE, CURE, COT, and AOD.

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