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
LIBERTY   12  5 1490 1357  0.098  8.114    2  0.466    2  0.489    2  0.520    2 0.5491    2  3.699    1  0.830    6  0.210
FEVER     10  8 1500 1394  0.048  8.257    7  0.100    7  0.082    3  0.417    7 0.5088    9  3.614    2  0.354    3  0.479
LYNX      15  3 1516 1335 -0.040  7.606    1  0.655    1  0.693    1  0.621    1 0.5672   12  3.561    3  0.335    1  0.906
DREAM     11  7 1513 1414  0.038  8.255    5  0.197    5  0.191    4  0.371    5 0.5182    8  3.615    4  0.313    4  0.429
STORM     11  7 1484 1436  0.152  9.393    4  0.332    4  0.356    6  0.264    4 0.5361    6  3.636    5  0.296    5  0.232
MERCURY   12  6 1510 1446  0.023  8.407    3  0.339    3  0.372    7  0.219    3 0.5403    5  3.644    6  0.287    7  0.151
WINGS      6 13 1565 1616 -0.035  9.206   11 -0.437   12 -0.428    9 -0.177   10 0.4576    3  3.690    7  0.096   10 -0.450
SPARKS     5 13 1469 1565  0.074  9.513   10 -0.423   11 -0.413   11 -0.325   11 0.4575    1  3.701    8 -0.005   11 -0.645
VALKYRIES  9  7 1272 1235  0.078  7.864    6  0.177    6  0.173    5  0.265    6 0.5163   13  3.533    9 -0.138    2  0.667
ACES       8  9 1348 1393 -0.009  8.352    8 -0.075    8 -0.040   10 -0.215    8 0.4936    7  3.617   10 -0.263    9 -0.168
TEAM       W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
MYSTICS    8 10 1421 1453  0.053  9.229    9 -0.075    9 -0.047    8 -0.116    9 0.4884   11  3.591   11 -0.276    8  0.044
SKY        5 11 1261 1403 -0.056  8.094   12 -0.440   10 -0.393   12 -0.595   12 0.4493    4  3.657   12 -0.470   12 -0.719
SUN        2 15 1208 1510 -0.031  9.153   13 -0.816   13 -0.789   13 -1.252   13 0.4137   10  3.601   13 -1.369   13 -1.135

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      15  3 1516 1335 -0.040  7.606    1  0.655    1  0.693    1  0.621    1 0.5672   12  3.561    3  0.335    1  0.906
STORM     11  7 1484 1436  0.152  9.393    4  0.332    4  0.356    6  0.264    4 0.5361    6  3.636    5  0.296    5  0.232
MERCURY   12  6 1510 1446  0.023  8.407    3  0.339    3  0.372    7  0.219    3 0.5403    5  3.644    6  0.287    7  0.151
WINGS      6 13 1565 1616 -0.035  9.206   11 -0.437   12 -0.428    9 -0.177   10 0.4576    3  3.690    7  0.096   10 -0.450
SPARKS     5 13 1469 1565  0.074  9.513   10 -0.423   11 -0.413   11 -0.325   11 0.4575    1  3.701    8 -0.005   11 -0.645
VALKYRIES  9  7 1272 1235  0.078  7.864    6  0.177    6  0.173    5  0.265    6 0.5163   13  3.533    9 -0.138    2  0.667
ACES       8  9 1348 1393 -0.009  8.352    8 -0.075    8 -0.040   10 -0.215    8 0.4936    7  3.617   10 -0.263    9 -0.168

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   12  5 1490 1357  0.098  8.114    2  0.466    2  0.489    2  0.520    2 0.5491    2  3.699    1  0.830    6  0.210
FEVER     10  8 1500 1394  0.048  8.257    7  0.100    7  0.082    3  0.417    7 0.5088    9  3.614    2  0.354    3  0.479
DREAM     11  7 1513 1414  0.038  8.255    5  0.197    5  0.191    4  0.371    5 0.5182    8  3.615    4  0.313    4  0.429
MYSTICS    8 10 1421 1453  0.053  9.229    9 -0.075    9 -0.047    8 -0.116    9 0.4884   11  3.591   11 -0.276    8  0.044
SKY        5 11 1261 1403 -0.056  8.094   12 -0.440   10 -0.393   12 -0.595   12 0.4493    4  3.657   12 -0.470   12 -0.719
SUN        2 15 1208 1510 -0.031  9.153   13 -0.816   13 -0.789   13 -1.252   13 0.4137   10  3.601   13 -1.369   13 -1.135

DIVISION            W  L   PCT  RNK RATING
WESTERN CONFERENCE 66 58 0.532    1  0.107
EASTERN CONFERENCE 48 56 0.462    2 -0.084

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

Predict score:








Team Strength vs. Time Plot:






posted: Fri Jul  4 05:30:07 2025
games through: Thu Jul  3 2025

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