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 11 through 1 (the teams with championships). Instead of dividing number of championships won by number of years played and basing the standings on success rate at winning the championship, I put the teams with more championships overall higher. However, to break the tie between teams with the same amount of championships, I gave the edge to the team that collected theirs in the least amount of years.
On this list, there was only one instance of two teams with the same amount of championships AND the same amount of years of existence (the Los Angeles Sparks and Phoenix Mercury). To break that tie, I used the same formula used in the first part of our list (No. 23 through No….
