WNBA Heat Check, Atlanta Dream 8-2 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: Atlanta Dream are rolling, Toronto Tempo are reeling, and the gap between those two feelings is enormous.

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.

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

Toronto Tempo are the cold front. They have gone 1-9 over their last 10, and the -138 margin underneath means the losses have not even been close, roughly 13.8 points a game the wrong way.

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.

The board

The top of the ledger, at a glance:

One more thing

Records fib a little and points margins fib less. When the two columns disagree about a team, trust the margin, it is the slower liar.