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.

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 +134 margin that works out to 96.5 scored and 83.1 allowed a night.

Right behind them sit Las Vegas Aces, 8-2 over the same kind of stretch and +118 on points margin, quieter, but pointed the same direction.

Washington Mystics (8-2) round out the warm end of the ledger.

For scale, the league as a whole is averaging 85.9 points a game over this window, Atlanta Dream are clearing that bar by 10.6 a night all on their own.

The cold end

Then there is Toronto Tempo. A 1-9 stretch is ugly on its own; pair it with a -155 points margin and it stops looking like bad luck. They are being outscored by about 15.5 points a game, and no scheduling quirk explains that away.

Connecticut Sun are not far behind on the misery index at 2-8.

The middle of the table is where the real congestion lives: New York Liberty (6-4) and Minnesota Lynx (6-4) are separated by almost nothing, and one good weekend reshuffles the whole neighborhood.

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.

Next up on the slate: Atlanta Dream against New York Liberty. Check back after that one goes final.