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      14  4 1634 1430  0.118  9.050    1  0.591    1  0.583    1  0.786    1 0.5696    7  3.685    1  0.789    2  0.782
DREAM     12  5 1513 1410  0.194  9.310    2  0.500    2  0.517    2  0.487    2 0.5600    9  3.668    4  0.417    3  0.557
ACES      13  5 1616 1542  0.077  9.210    3  0.466    3  0.483    4  0.312    3 0.5557    4  3.740    3  0.563    7  0.061
WINGS     11  7 1603 1542  0.164  9.821    4  0.326    4  0.310    5  0.305    4 0.5385    5  3.708    5  0.410    5  0.200
VALKYRIES 11  7 1501 1415  0.133  9.482    5  0.313    5  0.285    3  0.397    5 0.5317   15  3.571    9 -0.095    1  0.889
LIBERTY   12  7 1689 1594 -0.155  8.153    6  0.141    6  0.114    6  0.182    6 0.5201    6  3.703    7  0.264    6  0.100
FEVER     10  8 1674 1623 -0.008  8.808    7  0.104    7  0.088    7  0.166    7 0.5122    2  3.801    2  0.701   11 -0.369
MYSTICS    8  8 1311 1361  0.011  8.386    8  0.023    8  0.036    8 -0.136    8 0.4999   14  3.586   13 -0.565    4  0.293
SPARKS     8  9 1511 1586 -0.045  8.644    9 -0.076    9 -0.071   12 -0.298    9 0.4951    3  3.765    8  0.072   14 -0.667
FIRE       8 10 1476 1598 -0.072  9.215   10 -0.127   10 -0.112   13 -0.476   11 0.4828   10  3.666   12 -0.557   13 -0.396
TEAM       W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
TEMPO      9  9 1645 1657 -0.206  7.839   11 -0.145   11 -0.145   10 -0.181   10 0.4852    1  3.802    6  0.358   15 -0.719
MERCURY    6 13 1590 1656  0.094 10.525   12 -0.296   12 -0.298    9 -0.150   12 0.4664   11  3.652   10 -0.295    8 -0.005
SKY        5 12 1419 1500  0.017  9.172   13 -0.355   13 -0.347   11 -0.296   13 0.4562    8  3.672   11 -0.352   10 -0.239
STORM      4 15 1517 1634 -0.146  9.204   14 -0.659   14 -0.674   14 -0.485   14 0.4227   13  3.614   14 -0.792    9 -0.177
SUN        3 15 1438 1589 -0.218  8.253   15 -0.805   15 -0.806   15 -0.619   15 0.4093   12  3.630   15 -0.860   12 -0.378

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      14  4 1634 1430  0.118  9.050    1  0.591    1  0.583    1  0.786    1 0.5696    7  3.685    1  0.789    2  0.782
ACES      13  5 1616 1542  0.077  9.210    3  0.466    3  0.483    4  0.312    3 0.5557    4  3.740    3  0.563    7  0.061
WINGS     11  7 1603 1542  0.164  9.821    4  0.326    4  0.310    5  0.305    4 0.5385    5  3.708    5  0.410    5  0.200
VALKYRIES 11  7 1501 1415  0.133  9.482    5  0.313    5  0.285    3  0.397    5 0.5317   15  3.571    9 -0.095    1  0.889
SPARKS     8  9 1511 1586 -0.045  8.644    9 -0.076    9 -0.071   12 -0.298    9 0.4951    3  3.765    8  0.072   14 -0.667
FIRE       8 10 1476 1598 -0.072  9.215   10 -0.127   10 -0.112   13 -0.476   11 0.4828   10  3.666   12 -0.557   13 -0.396
MERCURY    6 13 1590 1656  0.094 10.525   12 -0.296   12 -0.298    9 -0.150   12 0.4664   11  3.652   10 -0.295    8 -0.005
STORM      4 15 1517 1634 -0.146  9.204   14 -0.659   14 -0.674   14 -0.485   14 0.4227   13  3.614   14 -0.792    9 -0.177

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     12  5 1513 1410  0.194  9.310    2  0.500    2  0.517    2  0.487    2 0.5600    9  3.668    4  0.417    3  0.557
LIBERTY   12  7 1689 1594 -0.155  8.153    6  0.141    6  0.114    6  0.182    6 0.5201    6  3.703    7  0.264    6  0.100
FEVER     10  8 1674 1623 -0.008  8.808    7  0.104    7  0.088    7  0.166    7 0.5122    2  3.801    2  0.701   11 -0.369
MYSTICS    8  8 1311 1361  0.011  8.386    8  0.023    8  0.036    8 -0.136    8 0.4999   14  3.586   13 -0.565    4  0.293
TEMPO      9  9 1645 1657 -0.206  7.839   11 -0.145   11 -0.145   10 -0.181   10 0.4852    1  3.802    6  0.358   15 -0.719
SKY        5 12 1419 1500  0.017  9.172   13 -0.355   13 -0.347   11 -0.296   13 0.4562    8  3.672   11 -0.352   10 -0.239
SUN        3 15 1438 1589 -0.218  8.253   15 -0.805   15 -0.806   15 -0.619   15 0.4093   12  3.630   15 -0.860   12 -0.378

DIVISION            W  L   PCT  RNK RATING
WESTERN CONFERENCE 75 70 0.517    1  0.065
EASTERN CONFERENCE 59 64 0.480    2 -0.080

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

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Team Strength vs. Time Plot:






posted: Fri Jun 26 05:30:08 2026
games through: Thu Jun 25 2026

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