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WNBA power rankings
Every team rated by who they beat and by how much. A rating of +5 means the team has
played about five points better than an average opponent; 0 is dead-average.
Strength of schedule is built in — beating good teams counts for more.
As of 2026-08-31, Golden State Valkyries sit first in the results-only WNBA ratings at
+7.2 points per game against an average opponent, ahead of Minnesota Lynx (+6.8).
15 teams rated; the picks built on these ratings are graded on the public record.
Scope: last 12 months of completed games · latest result 2026-08-31 · recomputed daily · page updated 10 Sep 2026
| # | Team | Rating |
Record | For | Against |
| 1 |
Golden State Valkyries |
+7.2 |
28-11 |
82.4 |
75.3 |
| 2 |
Minnesota Lynx |
+6.8 |
31-9 |
91.3 |
83.4 |
| 3 |
Indiana Fever |
+5.3 |
26-13 |
96.8 |
90.5 |
| 4 |
Las Vegas Aces |
+4.7 |
27-13 |
91.1 |
86.4 |
| 5 |
Atlanta Dream |
+4.2 |
26-14 |
90.8 |
85.7 |
| 6 |
Dallas Wings |
+3.6 |
23-16 |
88.5 |
84.9 |
| 7 |
New York Liberty |
+2.0 |
24-16 |
89.5 |
87.1 |
| 8 |
Washington Mystics |
-0.1 |
23-16 |
83.2 |
83.5 |
| 9 |
Chicago Sky |
-2.9 |
15-25 |
86.7 |
89.7 |
| 10 |
Phoenix Mercury |
-3.4 |
13-26 |
83.8 |
87.8 |
| 11 |
Portland Fire |
-4.0 |
16-24 |
86.6 |
91.1 |
| 12 |
Los Angeles Sparks |
-4.0 |
15-25 |
87.4 |
91.8 |
| 13 |
Seattle Storm |
-5.5 |
8-31 |
82.9 |
88.1 |
| 14 |
Toronto Tempo |
-6.6 |
11-28 |
86.8 |
94.4 |
| 15 |
Connecticut Sun |
-7.3 |
10-29 |
79.1 |
87.3 |
How it works: we take every completed game, cap blowout margins so one
rout can't own a rating, and solve for the set of ratings where each team's number equals
its average margin plus the average rating of the teams it faced. That is the classic
Simple Rating System — fully reproducible from public scores, no human votes.
Ratings recompute daily as results land.
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