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.

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.

The chase belongs to Indiana Fever, who have gone 8-2 with a +83 margin of their own.

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

The whole league is averaging 86.7 points a game in this stretch, which makes Atlanta Dream outrunning that number by 10.3 per night the loudest stat on the page.

The cold end

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.

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

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

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.

Next up on the slate: Atlanta Dream against Connecticut Sun. Check back after that one goes final.