WNBA Heat Check: Minnesota Lynx Are Scorching (10-0 Last 10)

Every WNBA season has a week when the temperature map redraws itself, and this feels like one of them. Minnesota Lynx have become the team nobody wants to see next on the schedule, while Toronto Tempo are hunting for anything that resembles a good night.

Who's hot

Nobody is playing better than Minnesota Lynx right now. The record says 10-0 over their last 10; the points column says even more, a +101 margin that works out to 98.2 scored and 88.1 allowed a night.

The chase belongs to Indiana Fever, who have gone 9-1 with a +124 margin of their own.

Keep Atlanta Dream in the conversation too, at 8-2 over their last 10.

For scale, the league as a whole is averaging 89.8 points a game over this window, Minnesota Lynx are clearing that bar by 8.4 a night all on their own.

The cold end

Toronto Tempo are the cold front. They have gone 1-9 over their last 10, and the -138 margin underneath means the losses have not even been close, roughly 13.8 points a game the wrong way.

Seattle Storm are not far behind on the misery index at 1-9.

Do not ignore the middle class, either: New York Liberty (6-4) and Las Vegas Aces (5-5) sit close enough that a single hot or cold series flips their order.

The board

Here is the warm half of the form table, last ten games for every club:

Worth remembering

Records fib a little and points margins fib less. When the two columns disagree about a team, trust the margin, it is the slower liar.

The schedule cooperates, too, Minnesota Lynx face Las Vegas Aces next, so this story gets its next chapter almost immediately.