Last season, 2018 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart led the league with 39.2 fantasy points scored per game on the Seattle Storm while Sabrina Ionescu led all guards (and was third in the WNBA) with 35.8 FP/G for the Liberty.
In 2021, just a season prior, Jonquel Jones was WNBA MVP and had the second-highest fantasy scoring average in the league at 40.2 FP/G for the Connecticut Sun. Now, all three are teammates in New York, along with other perennial top-30 fantasy scorers in former assists-leader Courtney Vandersloot and 2021 All Star forward Betnijah Laney.
What happens to everyone’s fantasy hoops scoring averages when they all have to share one ball?
In recent years, we’ve seen both Stewart and Jones play on star-laden frontlines next to other high-volume producers. During the second half of last season, Stewart was joined in the Storm frontcourt by 2012 WNBA MVP and rebound vacuum Tina Charles. Stewart still produced a career-best 21.8 PPG, but her rebounding fell from her career-best 9.6 RPG in 2021 to a career-low 7.6 RPG last season.
Similar for Jonquel Jones. After her 2021 MVP run in which she…
