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WNBA Awards by the Numbers: Why A’ja Wilson Is the Advanced Stats MVP (opens the original)
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As the WNBA’s 2026 awards roll out, the eye test could use a little backup. Three advanced metrics measure player value, each in its own way. Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus (RAPM) begins with lineups. It accounts for who is on the floor to estimate which players affect their team’s scoring margin the most. Win Probability Added (WPA) starts with, well, win probability. It measures which players are responsible for actions that shift their team’s chances of winning. Statistical Plus-Minus (SPM)
WNBA Playoffs First-Round Matchups: Breaking Down Each Team’s Strengths, Weaknesses (opens the original)
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After a two-week international break and another week of regular-season play, the WNBA playoffs are finally here and the first round is set up to be pure cinema. Buckle up. Before the action gets going, here’s what you need to know about each playoff team’s strengths and weaknesses and how they match up against their opponent. Strengths: Recent hiccups notwithstanding, the Lynx have thrived in part because they are not who they’ve been. Minnesota has attempted more than 30% of its shots at the r
Why Veronica Burton Ranks As the WNBA’s Most Impactful Player (opens the original)
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Suppose you wanted to rank the most impactful players of the 2026 WNBA season without using box score statistics. How would you do it? A natural place to begin is to compare how a player’s team performs when they are on the court versus when they are off of it. The idea is straightforward—the most impactful players should create the largest on-off differences (or splits)—but it is missing context. It can be improved by adjusting for the strength of who a player played with and against, which is
With Kelsey Plum Traded to Mercury, Sparks Have to Start Over Yet Again (opens the original)
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Patience is a virtue, a virtue that the Sparks will now be forced to appreciate. Los Angeles’s short-lived bid for contender status has come to an end after trading Kelsey Plum to the Mercury for guard Monique Akoa Makani, a 2027 first-round pick and a 2028 second-rounder, according to ESPN. In the end, the gamble produced a 31–40 record over two seasons, a fired general manager and a coach seemingly headed for the exit. The Sparks went all-in for a title window that never truly opened. How did
The Most Clutch Players in the WNBA This Season (opens the original)
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Who has been the most clutch player in the WNBA this season? Well, how do you even define clutch in the first place? The WNBA designates clutch time as the final five minutes of a game when the score is within five points. That’s not a bad definition: That specific window winnows down games to the most pressure-packed, critical moments that have an outsized impact on the final outcome. It isn’t perfect, though. The definition identifies when impactful plays are likely to occur but doesn’t measur
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