Team Heat Check: Atlanta Dream Run Hot, Toronto Tempo Run Cold (WNBA)

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

Nobody is playing better than Atlanta Dream right now. The record says 8-2 over their last 10; the points column says even more, a +110 margin that works out to 97.0 scored and 86.0 allowed a night.

Indiana Fever are the closest thing to company at 8-2, with a +83 points margin that says the record is no fluke.

Minnesota Lynx (8-2) round out the warm end of the ledger.

The whole league is averaging 86.7 points a game in this stretch, which makes Atlanta Dream outrunning that number by 10.3 per night the loudest stat on the page.

Who's cold

At the bottom of the temperature map sit Toronto Tempo: 1-9 in their last 10, -138 on points margin. That is about 13.8 a game in the wrong direction, and no lineup shuffle fixes it overnight.

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

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

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