Twenty games down, 20 to go. The WNBA officially hit the halfway point of the regular season this week, meaning it’s time to dissect each team’s progress from all angles. Teams have been graded, award races have been examined. Now, let’s talk numbers, specifically stats that define each WNBA team to this point of the year.
Some of these highlight individual impact, some collective strengths and weaknesses. Some showcase accomplishments, others showcase room for improvement. Some might change as the 40-game season progresses to the All-Star Game and then resumes following the Olympic break.
But first, a few numbers about the league overall: Attendance is up to an average of 9,311 fans per game, according to Across the Timeline, the league’s best number since the 1990s. Two games this season (both featuring No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever) already surpassed the 20,000 attendance threshold, something that happened only six other times in the league’s history….
