WNBA Heat Check: Atlanta Dream Are Scorching (9-1 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.

Burning up

Start with Atlanta Dream. They have won 9 of their last 10, and they have not been sneaking past anyone: the points margin over that stretch is +156, which breaks down to about 95.7 scored and 80.1 allowed per game. That is the arithmetic of a team winning on merit, not on bounces.

The chase belongs to Las Vegas Aces, who have gone 8-2 with a +126 margin of their own.

Keep Washington Mystics in the conversation too, at 8-2 over their last 10.

The whole league is averaging 85.8 points a game in this stretch, which makes Atlanta Dream outrunning that number by 9.9 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 -163 margin underneath means the losses have not even been close, roughly 16.3 points a game the wrong way.

Connecticut Sun (2-8) share the cold row, for whatever comfort that provides.

In between the extremes it gets crowded, New York Liberty at 6-4 and Minnesota Lynx at 6-4 are basically sharing a seat, and the next series either way will split them.

The board

The top of the ledger, at a glance:

One more thing

One reading tip before you go: points margin travels better than record. A fat margin with a modest record usually means the wins are coming; the reverse usually means they are not.