Dolphin Ratings - Women's National Basketball Association

Explanation: Each team is listed with its record, overall score differential, and its ratings. Brief explanations of the ratings follow.

Schedule The number in this column is the effective opponent strength of a team. In other words, they would be expected to have the same record had they played all games against an opponent of this predictive rating at a neutral site. Because this calculation depends on the strength of the team in question, it is not possible to rank schedules using these values.
Expected Losses For college teams, this number is the number of losses an average ranked (top 15 hockey; otherwise top 25) team would be expected to have against the team's schedule. For pro teams, this is the number of losses an average team would be expected to have against the team's schedule. Unlike the schedule ranking, this value can be used to rank schedules.
Standard Ranks teams in an order such that a team is "probably better" than all teams ranked lower than it. This calculation uses margin of victory only for computing a team's opponents strengths; the team's rating itself is computed using only wins, losses, and ties relative to its schedule
Median Likelihood Determines the likely ratings for each team, based on its wins, losses, and ties relative to its schedule. This generally produces the same or similar ratings as the standard ranking.
Predictive Both schedule strength and rating vs. schedule strength are determined considering both the wins and losses and the score differentials. This rating contains none of the biases in the standard rating, but does weight recent games slightly more than past games since those are a better indication of the team's current strength. This rating is the best of the first three for seeing how good teams are, and thus is the best for predicting future results.
Improved RPI Rating The improved RPI formula is similar to the standard RPI, except that the schedule strength is carried out to infinite depth instead of ending with opponents' opponents, thus allows for a better comparison of isolated groups of teams than is given by the standard RPI calculation. It is similar to the simple rating, except that all games are given equal weight.
Scoring. This value indicates how many points a team would be expected to score if it played an identical team.
Offense. This combines the predictive and scoring ratings to measure how many points a team scores. The number is the predictive rating of an opponent against whom the team would be expected to score the league average number of points. This does not necessarily rate a team's offensive abilities, as a fast pace in basketball or big-play defense in football can make a team score more points.
Defense. This combines the predictive and scoring ratings to measure how many points a team allows. The number is the predictive rating of an opponent against whom the team would be expected to allow the league average number of points. The same caveat in the predictive-offense rating applies here.

In order to increase early-season stability, the three main rankings, the improved RPI, and the college pseudopoll include priors based on the previous season final predictive ratings and occasionally incorporating preseason predictions of various major publications. The other rankings for college sports do not include priors, and thus can be wildly unstable early in the year. A team whose rankings are affected by this prior is noted with a P following its rankings.

Full Ranking

                                      STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI    SCORING     OFFENSE     DEFENSE 
TEAM      W L  PF  PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
LYNX      5 0 431 387 -0.107  2.050    1  0.402    1  0.411    2  0.237    2 0.5724    8  3.623    4  0.208    3  0.265 P
LIBERTY   4 0 376 307  0.046  1.691    2  0.356    2  0.377    1  0.467    1 0.5812    2  3.697    1  0.764    4  0.171 P
MERCURY   4 1 402 373 -0.085  2.175    3  0.208    3  0.218    7  0.072    3 0.5438   12  3.572   10 -0.176    2  0.319 P
STORM     3 2 394 386  0.200  2.794    4  0.157    4  0.163    4  0.145    4 0.5422   11  3.579    8 -0.073    1  0.364 P
DREAM     4 2 507 477 -0.019  2.760    5  0.143    5  0.140    6  0.128    6 0.4992    7  3.633    6  0.142    5  0.113 P
ACES      2 2 322 328  0.118  2.049    6  0.073    6  0.067    5  0.139    5 0.5132    6  3.637    5  0.170    6  0.108 P
FEVER     2 2 352 315  0.215  2.155    7  0.011    7  0.014    3  0.175    7 0.4891    5  3.646    3  0.245    7  0.106 P
VALKYRIES 2 2 292 326 -0.031  2.040    8 -0.006    8 -0.006   11 -0.270    8 0.4890   13  3.542   13 -0.643    8  0.102 P
MYSTICS   2 3 392 394 -0.107  2.239    9 -0.115    9 -0.117    8 -0.073    9 0.4716    9  3.609    9 -0.162    9  0.015 P
SPARKS    2 4 491 493 -0.176  2.558   10 -0.253   11 -0.245   10 -0.146   10 0.4615    3  3.670    7  0.029   11 -0.321 P
TEAM      W L  PF  PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
WINGS     1 4 420 433  0.104  2.713   11 -0.256   10 -0.239    9 -0.090   11 0.4511    1  3.714    2  0.284   12 -0.464 P
SKY       0 4 299 377  0.119  2.413   12 -0.335   12 -0.321   13 -0.454   12 0.4182    4  3.668   11 -0.287   13 -0.621 P
SUN       0 5 359 441  0.033  2.694   13 -0.385   13 -0.378   12 -0.388   13 0.4100   10  3.597   12 -0.529   10 -0.246 P

WESTERN CONFERENCE
                                      STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI    SCORING     OFFENSE     DEFENSE 
TEAM      W L  PF  PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
LYNX      5 0 431 387 -0.107  2.050    1  0.402    1  0.411    2  0.237    2 0.5724    8  3.623    4  0.208    3  0.265 P
MERCURY   4 1 402 373 -0.085  2.175    3  0.208    3  0.218    7  0.072    3 0.5438   12  3.572   10 -0.176    2  0.319 P
STORM     3 2 394 386  0.200  2.794    4  0.157    4  0.163    4  0.145    4 0.5422   11  3.579    8 -0.073    1  0.364 P
ACES      2 2 322 328  0.118  2.049    6  0.073    6  0.067    5  0.139    5 0.5132    6  3.637    5  0.170    6  0.108 P
VALKYRIES 2 2 292 326 -0.031  2.040    8 -0.006    8 -0.006   11 -0.270    8 0.4890   13  3.542   13 -0.643    8  0.102 P
SPARKS    2 4 491 493 -0.176  2.558   10 -0.253   11 -0.245   10 -0.146   10 0.4615    3  3.670    7  0.029   11 -0.321 P
WINGS     1 4 420 433  0.104  2.713   11 -0.256   10 -0.239    9 -0.090   11 0.4511    1  3.714    2  0.284   12 -0.464 P

EASTERN CONFERENCE
                                      STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI    SCORING     OFFENSE     DEFENSE 
TEAM      W L  PF  PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
LIBERTY   4 0 376 307  0.046  1.691    2  0.356    2  0.377    1  0.467    1 0.5812    2  3.697    1  0.764    4  0.171 P
DREAM     4 2 507 477 -0.019  2.760    5  0.143    5  0.140    6  0.128    6 0.4992    7  3.633    6  0.142    5  0.113 P
FEVER     2 2 352 315  0.215  2.155    7  0.011    7  0.014    3  0.175    7 0.4891    5  3.646    3  0.245    7  0.106 P
MYSTICS   2 3 392 394 -0.107  2.239    9 -0.115    9 -0.117    8 -0.073    9 0.4716    9  3.609    9 -0.162    9  0.015 P
SKY       0 4 299 377  0.119  2.413   12 -0.335   12 -0.321   13 -0.454   12 0.4182    4  3.668   11 -0.287   13 -0.621 P
SUN       0 5 359 441  0.033  2.694   13 -0.385   13 -0.378   12 -0.388   13 0.4100   10  3.597   12 -0.529   10 -0.246 P

DIVISION            W  L   PCT  RNK RATING
WESTERN CONFERENCE 19 15 0.559    1  0.045
EASTERN CONFERENCE 12 16 0.429    2 -0.028

Home field advantage amounts to:
     0.333 points in main ratings (0.226 for semineutral)
     0.033 points in improved RPI (0.023 for semineutral)
Average of 2.15 points per score

Predict score:








Team Strength vs. Time Plot:






posted: Wed May 28 05:30:06 2025
games through: Tue May 27 2025

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