WNBA Heat Check, Minnesota Lynx 9-1 in Their Last 10

Form is the story the standings tell slowly and the last ten games tell fast. Right now the fast version of WNBA is easy to summarize: Minnesota Lynx are rolling, Toronto Tempo are reeling, and the gap between those two feelings is enormous.

The warm end of the table

Nobody is playing better than Minnesota Lynx right now. The record says 9-1 over their last 10; the points column says even more, a +89 margin that works out to 90.5 scored and 81.6 allowed a night.

The chase belongs to Atlanta Dream, who have gone 8-2 with a +103 margin of their own.

Indiana Fever (8-2) round out the warm end of the ledger.

Some context helps: across every club in the sample, scoring sits at 87.1 points per game right now. Minnesota Lynx are beating the league's own pace by 3.4 a game.

The cold end

Toronto Tempo are the cold front. They have gone 1-9 over their last 10, and the -113 margin underneath means the losses have not even been close, roughly 11.3 points a game the wrong way.

Connecticut Sun are not far behind on the misery index at 2-8.

The middle of the table is where the real congestion lives: Dallas Wings (5-5) and Las Vegas Aces (5-5) are separated by almost nothing, and one good weekend reshuffles the whole neighborhood.

At a glance

The top of the ledger, at a glance:

The fine print

As always, watch where record and points margin tell different stories about the same club. The margin tends to know first.

One to circle: Minnesota Lynx meet Atlanta Dream in their next game, and we will find out quickly whether this stretch travels.