WNBA Heat Check: Atlanta Dream Are Scorching (9-1 Last 10)

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

The warm end of the table

Atlanta Dream own the league's best recent ledger at 9-1, and the +123 points margin underneath it says the record is earned. Per game the numbers read 97.3 for and 85.0 against, a gap that does not happen by accident across 10 games.

Right behind them sit Minnesota Lynx, 9-1 over the same kind of stretch and +89 on points margin, quieter, but pointed the same direction.

Keep Indiana Fever in the conversation too, at 8-2 over their last 10.

The whole league is averaging 87.6 points a game in this stretch, which makes Atlanta Dream outrunning that number by 9.7 per night the loudest stat on the page.

The cold end

At the bottom of the temperature map sit Toronto Tempo: 1-9 in their last 10, -119 on points margin. That is about 11.9 a game in the wrong direction, and no lineup shuffle fixes it overnight.

They have company at the cold end: Los Angeles Sparks, 1-9 over the same window.

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

At a glance

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

The fine print

One reading tip before you go: points margin travels better than record. A fat margin with a modest record usually means the wins are coming; the reverse usually means they are not.

Next up on the slate: Atlanta Dream against Portland Fire. Check back after that one goes final.