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.

And do not sleep on Minnesota Lynx, quietly 8-2 across 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.

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.

By the numbers

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.