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  0.109  9.025    1  0.577    1  0.569    1  0.769    1 0.5691   10  3.681    2  0.750    2  0.787
VALKYRIES 12  7 1579 1490  0.170 10.289    3  0.373    4  0.356    2  0.422    3 0.5410   15  3.562    9 -0.111    1  0.955
DREAM     12  7 1678 1593  0.175 10.372    4  0.364    3  0.361    3  0.365    4 0.5401    9  3.683    5  0.355    3  0.376
ACES      13  5 1616 1542  0.079  9.205    2  0.473    2  0.475    4  0.312    2 0.5579    4  3.741    3  0.565    8  0.059
WINGS     11  7 1603 1542  0.166  9.834    5  0.299    5  0.304    5  0.307    5 0.5387    7  3.702    4  0.379    5  0.235
FEVER     11  8 1785 1710 -0.040  8.980    7  0.106    6  0.105    6  0.218    7 0.5155    1  3.803    1  0.760   12 -0.324
LIBERTY   12  7 1689 1594 -0.164  8.065    6  0.111    7  0.104    7  0.176    6 0.5196    5  3.703    7  0.254    6  0.098
MERCURY    7 13 1679 1736  0.088 10.942   12 -0.228   12 -0.231    8 -0.106   12 0.4742   11  3.643   11 -0.296    7  0.083
SKY        6 12 1543 1594 -0.007  9.345   13 -0.297   13 -0.297    9 -0.190   13 0.4634    6  3.702   10 -0.115   11 -0.266
TEMPO      9 10 1725 1746 -0.203  8.264   11 -0.201   11 -0.194   10 -0.214   10 0.4775    2  3.793    6  0.281   14 -0.709
TEAM       W  L   PF   PA  SCHED  ELOSS  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
MYSTICS    8  9 1368 1429 -0.031  8.669    8 -0.071    8 -0.049   11 -0.218    9 0.4885   14  3.563   14 -0.748    4  0.312
SPARKS     8 10 1598 1697 -0.031  9.268    9 -0.122    9 -0.105   12 -0.360    8 0.4904    3  3.773    8  0.038   15 -0.758
STORM      5 15 1622 1724 -0.098  9.892   14 -0.523   14 -0.544   13 -0.363   14 0.4361   12  3.638   13 -0.572    9 -0.154
SUN        4 15 1506 1646 -0.201  8.665   15 -0.685   15 -0.696   14 -0.527   15 0.4205   13  3.604   15 -0.882   10 -0.171
FIRE       8 11 1570 1722 -0.064  9.756   10 -0.176   10 -0.150   15 -0.555   11 0.4774    8  3.691   12 -0.532   13 -0.578

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  0.109  9.025    1  0.577    1  0.569    1  0.769    1 0.5691   10  3.681    2  0.750    2  0.787
VALKYRIES 12  7 1579 1490  0.170 10.289    3  0.373    4  0.356    2  0.422    3 0.5410   15  3.562    9 -0.111    1  0.955
ACES      13  5 1616 1542  0.079  9.205    2  0.473    2  0.475    4  0.312    2 0.5579    4  3.741    3  0.565    8  0.059
WINGS     11  7 1603 1542  0.166  9.834    5  0.299    5  0.304    5  0.307    5 0.5387    7  3.702    4  0.379    5  0.235
MERCURY    7 13 1679 1736  0.088 10.942   12 -0.228   12 -0.231    8 -0.106   12 0.4742   11  3.643   11 -0.296    7  0.083
SPARKS     8 10 1598 1697 -0.031  9.268    9 -0.122    9 -0.105   12 -0.360    8 0.4904    3  3.773    8  0.038   15 -0.758
STORM      5 15 1622 1724 -0.098  9.892   14 -0.523   14 -0.544   13 -0.363   14 0.4361   12  3.638   13 -0.572    9 -0.154
FIRE       8 11 1570 1722 -0.064  9.756   10 -0.176   10 -0.150   15 -0.555   11 0.4774    8  3.691   12 -0.532   13 -0.578

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  7 1678 1593  0.175 10.372    4  0.364    3  0.361    3  0.365    4 0.5401    9  3.683    5  0.355    3  0.376
FEVER     11  8 1785 1710 -0.040  8.980    7  0.106    6  0.105    6  0.218    7 0.5155    1  3.803    1  0.760   12 -0.324
LIBERTY   12  7 1689 1594 -0.164  8.065    6  0.111    7  0.104    7  0.176    6 0.5196    5  3.703    7  0.254    6  0.098
SKY        6 12 1543 1594 -0.007  9.345   13 -0.297   13 -0.297    9 -0.190   13 0.4634    6  3.702   10 -0.115   11 -0.266
TEMPO      9 10 1725 1746 -0.203  8.264   11 -0.201   11 -0.194   10 -0.214   10 0.4775    2  3.793    6  0.281   14 -0.709
MYSTICS    8  9 1368 1429 -0.031  8.669    8 -0.071    8 -0.049   11 -0.218    9 0.4885   14  3.563   14 -0.748    4  0.312
SUN        4 15 1506 1646 -0.201  8.665   15 -0.685   15 -0.696   14 -0.527   15 0.4205   13  3.604   15 -0.882   10 -0.171

DIVISION            W  L   PCT  RNK RATING
WESTERN CONFERENCE 78 72 0.520    1  0.074
EASTERN CONFERENCE 62 68 0.477    2 -0.082

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: Sun Jun 28 05:30:10 2026
games through: Sat Jun 27 2026

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