I have been playing a weak defense and have come across lower ranked teams with the gods and liliths. I know they are trying to win on defenses, but if they ran a weak defense they could have a higher rank with revenge wins against other weak defenses. Unless you are going for rank 250 or even above 100 there really is no reason for the hard defenses. It just makes the game much more difficult for themselves. I would rather have a lower rank but earn more IC with easy wins.