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.

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

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.

They have company at the cold end: Connecticut Sun, 2-8 over the same window.

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.

The board

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

The fine print

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