WNBA Heat Check: Indiana Fever Are Scorching (10-0 Last 10)

Ten games is not a season, but it is a mood, and moods decide a lot of games. The current mood around WNBA: Indiana Fever keep winning, Los Angeles Sparks keep losing, and everybody else lives somewhere in the weather between.

Burning up

Indiana Fever own the league's best recent ledger at 10-0, and the +121 points margin underneath it says the record is earned. Per game the numbers read 104.8 for and 92.7 against, a gap that does not happen by accident across 10 games.

The chase belongs to Minnesota Lynx, who have gone 10-0 with a +104 margin of their own.

And do not sleep on Atlanta Dream, quietly 8-2 across their last 10.

Some context helps: across every club in the sample, scoring sits at 89.1 points per game right now. Indiana Fever are beating the league's own pace by 15.7 a game.

The cold end

Then there is Los Angeles Sparks. A 0-10 stretch is ugly on its own; pair it with a -74 points margin and it stops looking like bad luck. They are being outscored by about 7.4 points a game, and no scheduling quirk explains that away.

Toronto Tempo are not far behind on the misery index at 1-9.

In between the extremes it gets crowded, Chicago Sky at 5-5 and Dallas Wings at 4-6 are basically sharing a seat, and the next series either way will split them.

By the numbers

For the fuller picture, the five best recent records in the league:

One more thing

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.

Next up on the slate: Indiana Fever against Dallas Wings. Check back after that one goes final.