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      22  6 2562 2319 -0.032 13.094    1  0.536    1  0.523    1  0.465    1 0.5614    5  3.728    2  0.642    3  0.288
VALKYRIES 19  8 2211 2062  0.087 13.999    2  0.452    2  0.446    2  0.423    2 0.5540   15  3.524   11 -0.283    1  1.128
WINGS     18  9 2436 2327  0.049 13.763    3  0.359    3  0.352    5  0.264    3 0.5420    9  3.700    5  0.316    4  0.212
ACES      18  9 2451 2338  0.033 13.594    4  0.342    4  0.338    4  0.288    4 0.5413    4  3.742    3  0.527    6  0.049
DREAM     16 10 2323 2217  0.058 13.323    5  0.253    5  0.247    6  0.244    5 0.5310    7  3.713    4  0.354    5  0.134
FEVER     17 10 2578 2419 -0.019 12.963    6  0.231    6  0.217    3  0.378    6 0.5278    1  3.825    1  1.008   11 -0.253
LIBERTY   16 12 2483 2412  0.001 13.938    7  0.133    7  0.125    7  0.130    7 0.5189    8  3.708    6  0.214    7  0.046
MYSTICS   14 12 2100 2161 -0.005 13.380    8  0.062    8  0.084    8 -0.128    8 0.5099   14  3.535   15 -0.791    2  0.535
FIRE      11 16 2304 2446 -0.021 13.942    9 -0.188    9 -0.173   11 -0.291    9 0.4773   10  3.695   10 -0.266   13 -0.317
SPARKS    10 16 2295 2427 -0.012 13.518   10 -0.225   10 -0.215   12 -0.319   10 0.4724    3  3.763    8  0.019   14 -0.657
TEAM       W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
MERCURY   10 18 2323 2423  0.004 14.589   11 -0.270   12 -0.274   10 -0.241   12 0.4656   12  3.628   13 -0.510    8  0.028
TEMPO     10 16 2301 2416 -0.083 12.746   12 -0.275   11 -0.272   14 -0.367   11 0.4681    2  3.786    7  0.080   15 -0.813
SKY        9 18 2363 2423 -0.003 13.890   13 -0.313   13 -0.321    9 -0.131   13 0.4634    6  3.718    9 -0.000   12 -0.262
SUN        7 20 2160 2351 -0.070 13.619   14 -0.501   14 -0.503   15 -0.420   14 0.4394   13  3.621   14 -0.717    9 -0.122
STORM      6 23 2375 2524 -0.055 14.682   15 -0.597   15 -0.627   13 -0.337   15 0.4301   11  3.651   12 -0.504   10 -0.169

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      22  6 2562 2319 -0.032 13.094    1  0.536    1  0.523    1  0.465    1 0.5614    5  3.728    2  0.642    3  0.288
VALKYRIES 19  8 2211 2062  0.087 13.999    2  0.452    2  0.446    2  0.423    2 0.5540   15  3.524   11 -0.283    1  1.128
WINGS     18  9 2436 2327  0.049 13.763    3  0.359    3  0.352    5  0.264    3 0.5420    9  3.700    5  0.316    4  0.212
ACES      18  9 2451 2338  0.033 13.594    4  0.342    4  0.338    4  0.288    4 0.5413    4  3.742    3  0.527    6  0.049
FIRE      11 16 2304 2446 -0.021 13.942    9 -0.188    9 -0.173   11 -0.291    9 0.4773   10  3.695   10 -0.266   13 -0.317
SPARKS    10 16 2295 2427 -0.012 13.518   10 -0.225   10 -0.215   12 -0.319   10 0.4724    3  3.763    8  0.019   14 -0.657
MERCURY   10 18 2323 2423  0.004 14.589   11 -0.270   12 -0.274   10 -0.241   12 0.4656   12  3.628   13 -0.510    8  0.028
STORM      6 23 2375 2524 -0.055 14.682   15 -0.597   15 -0.627   13 -0.337   15 0.4301   11  3.651   12 -0.504   10 -0.169

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
DREAM     16 10 2323 2217  0.058 13.323    5  0.253    5  0.247    6  0.244    5 0.5310    7  3.713    4  0.354    5  0.134
FEVER     17 10 2578 2419 -0.019 12.963    6  0.231    6  0.217    3  0.378    6 0.5278    1  3.825    1  1.008   11 -0.253
LIBERTY   16 12 2483 2412  0.001 13.938    7  0.133    7  0.125    7  0.130    7 0.5189    8  3.708    6  0.214    7  0.046
MYSTICS   14 12 2100 2161 -0.005 13.380    8  0.062    8  0.084    8 -0.128    8 0.5099   14  3.535   15 -0.791    2  0.535
TEMPO     10 16 2301 2416 -0.083 12.746   12 -0.275   11 -0.272   14 -0.367   11 0.4681    2  3.786    7  0.080   15 -0.813
SKY        9 18 2363 2423 -0.003 13.890   13 -0.313   13 -0.321    9 -0.131   13 0.4634    6  3.718    9 -0.000   12 -0.262
SUN        7 20 2160 2351 -0.070 13.619   14 -0.501   14 -0.503   15 -0.420   14 0.4394   13  3.621   14 -0.717    9 -0.122

DIVISION             W   L   PCT  RNK RATING
WESTERN CONFERENCE 114 105 0.521    1  0.047
EASTERN CONFERENCE  89  98 0.476    2 -0.063

Home field advantage amounts to:
     0.338 points in main ratings (0.226 for semineutral)
     0.035 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: Sun Jul 26 05:30:08 2026
games through: Sat Jul 25 2026

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