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.
Predictive-Scoring. This value indicates how many points a team would be expected to score if it played an identical team.
Predictive-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.
Predictive-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.
Home Scoring. This is an adjustment to the scoring ranking applied at home. Values are nonzero only for baseball, where park effects can be significant.

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
TEAM      W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  P-SCR  P-OFF  P-DEF  H-SCR
STORM    17  6 2018 1843  0.040 10.698    1  1.352    1  0.480    1  0.500    1 0.5570  3.660  0.606  0.394  0.000
MERCURY  15  9 2006 1941  0.090 12.087    2  1.148    2  0.307    4  0.218    2 0.5330  3.638  0.229  0.206  0.000
SPARKS   14  9 1826 1781  0.078 11.501    3  1.114    3  0.276    5  0.185    4 0.5280  3.538 -0.231  0.602  0.000
WINGS    14  9 2024 1876  0.058 10.979    4  1.105    4  0.231    2  0.464    3 0.5282  3.729  0.881  0.048  0.000
DREAM    14  9 1814 1819 -0.045 10.786    5  1.015    5  0.194    8 -0.015    5 0.5173  3.569 -0.301  0.271  0.000
LYNX     13 10 1820 1766  0.016 11.019    6  0.952    6  0.121    6  0.142    6 0.5122  3.550 -0.222  0.506  0.000
MYSTICS  13 10 1940 1896 -0.048 10.507    7  0.915    7  0.097    7  0.084    7 0.5101  3.677  0.265 -0.096  0.000
SUN      12 11 1977 1886  0.045 11.063    8  0.886    8  0.046    3  0.218    8 0.5067  3.706  0.530 -0.093  0.000
ACES     11 13 1987 2040  0.062 12.363    9  0.785    9 -0.018    9 -0.049    9 0.4974  3.675  0.126 -0.223  0.000
LIBERTY   7 16 1811 1940 -0.111 10.881   10  0.388   11 -0.445   10 -0.460   11 0.4483  3.599 -0.618 -0.301  0.000
TEAM      W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  P-SCR  P-OFF  P-DEF  H-SCR
SKY       7 16 1857 2060 -0.081 11.260   11  0.384   10 -0.424   11 -0.623   10 0.4545  3.697 -0.352 -0.893  0.000
FEVER     2 21 1729 1961 -0.018 11.912   12  0.000   12 -0.871   12 -0.676   12 0.4060  3.588 -0.880 -0.472  0.000

WESTERN CONFERENCE
                                         STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI
TEAM      W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  P-SCR  P-OFF  P-DEF  H-SCR
STORM    17  6 2018 1843  0.040 10.698    1  1.352    1  0.480    1  0.500    1 0.5570  3.660  0.606  0.394  0.000
MERCURY  15  9 2006 1941  0.090 12.087    2  1.148    2  0.307    4  0.218    2 0.5330  3.638  0.229  0.206  0.000
SPARKS   14  9 1826 1781  0.078 11.501    3  1.114    3  0.276    5  0.185    4 0.5280  3.538 -0.231  0.602  0.000
WINGS    14  9 2024 1876  0.058 10.979    4  1.105    4  0.231    2  0.464    3 0.5282  3.729  0.881  0.048  0.000
LYNX     13 10 1820 1766  0.016 11.019    6  0.952    6  0.121    6  0.142    6 0.5122  3.550 -0.222  0.506  0.000
ACES     11 13 1987 2040  0.062 12.363    9  0.785    9 -0.018    9 -0.049    9 0.4974  3.675  0.126 -0.223  0.000

EASTERN CONFERENCE
                                         STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI
TEAM      W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  P-SCR  P-OFF  P-DEF  H-SCR
DREAM    14  9 1814 1819 -0.045 10.786    5  1.015    5  0.194    8 -0.015    5 0.5173  3.569 -0.301  0.271  0.000
MYSTICS  13 10 1940 1896 -0.048 10.507    7  0.915    7  0.097    7  0.084    7 0.5101  3.677  0.265 -0.096  0.000
SUN      12 11 1977 1886  0.045 11.063    8  0.886    8  0.046    3  0.218    8 0.5067  3.706  0.530 -0.093  0.000
LIBERTY   7 16 1811 1940 -0.111 10.881   10  0.388   11 -0.445   10 -0.460   11 0.4483  3.599 -0.618 -0.301  0.000
SKY       7 16 1857 2060 -0.081 11.260   11  0.384   10 -0.424   11 -0.623   10 0.4545  3.697 -0.352 -0.893  0.000
FEVER     2 21 1729 1961 -0.018 11.912   12  0.000   12 -0.871   12 -0.676   12 0.4060  3.588 -0.880 -0.472  0.000

DIVISION            W  L   PCT  RNK RATING
WESTERN CONFERENCE 84 56 0.600    1  0.303
EASTERN CONFERENCE 55 83 0.399    2 -0.305

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

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Team Strength vs. Time Plot:






posted: Fri Jul 20 05:30:14 2018
games through: Thu Jul 19 2018

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