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.

Burning up

Atlanta Dream own the league's best recent ledger at 8-2, and the +110 points margin underneath it says the record is earned. Per game the numbers read 97.0 for and 86.0 against, a gap that does not happen by accident across 10 games.

Right behind them sit Indiana Fever, 8-2 over the same kind of stretch and +83 on points margin, quieter, but pointed the same direction.

Keep Minnesota Lynx in the conversation too, at 8-2 over their last 10.

For scale, the league as a whole is averaging 86.7 points a game over this window, Atlanta Dream are clearing that bar by 10.3 a night all on their own.

The deep freeze

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 (2-8) share the cold row, for whatever comfort that provides.

In between the extremes it gets crowded, Dallas Wings at 5-5 and Las Vegas Aces at 5-5 are basically sharing a seat, and the next series either way will split them.

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.