A lot can happen over the course of a month in the WNBA.
Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese has gone on a historic double-double streak. The Indiana Fever‘s Caitlin Clark became the WNBA’s first rookie to record a triple-double. And Cameron Brink, who was No. 1 the last time we ranked the WNBA rookies, was lost for the season to a torn ACL after only 15 games.
With so many shakeups, our updated rookie rankings reflect a much larger sample. As a refresher on our process, each 2024 rookie is rated based on how many wins each has added so far this season, using a consensus of three different advanced value metrics: Basketball-Reference’s Win Shares, Estimated Wins Added from Player Efficiency Rating (PER) and wins generated via Estimated RAPTOR, a plus/minus-style stat that accounts for both a player’s individual production and her effect on her team’s net rating during a game. The RAPTOR metric is a new addition to these rankings, and it’s a big improvement because it includes a player’s stats and the effect of those stats on the game.
Each estimate of wins created is then averaged into a single metric, called Consensus Wins, which can…
