Every fan roots for their team to win the championship this year, but the ultimate goal is to be the greatest franchise of all time. At Swish Appeal we decided to rank all the WNBA teams that have ever existed in order of greatness.
For franchises that have moved to between two or three different cities, I counted them as two or three different teams. You may want to see these franchises ranked as one, but I considered them separately because their fan bases are different — in some cases very different (Detroit Shock/Dallas Wings and Orlando Miracle/Connecticut Sun).
This is our article on teams 23 through 12 (the teams with zero championships). To break the tie between the teams, I came up with a tiebreaker point system:
- Lost Finals — 50 points
- Lost semis — 35 points
- Lost final 6 — 25 points
- Lost final 8 — 15 points
- Missed playoffs — Winning percentage x 10
I applied this system to every season of the team’s existence and then divided by the number of seasons to get an average success number.
You could do great in the regular season, but lose early in the playoffs and be hurt by this system. You could also just barely miss the playoffs with a good record and be behind a team that made the playoffs with a worse record. This system rewards the glory of…
