WNBA Heat Check: Atlanta Dream Are Scorching (8-2 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: Atlanta Dream keep winning, Toronto Tempo keep losing, and everybody else lives somewhere in the weather between.

Who's hot

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.

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

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.

Who's cold

Then there is Toronto Tempo. A 1-9 stretch is ugly on its own; pair it with a -138 points margin and it stops looking like bad luck. They are being outscored by about 13.8 points a game, and no scheduling quirk explains that away.

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

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

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

One more thing

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.