The most anticipated regular season for WNBA rookies reaches its conclusion this week, with the final games taking place Thursday. Some of those rookies will be extending their seasons into the first round of the playoffs — and possibly beyond — while others will begin an offseason of recovering from injuries and working on their games.
Either way, it was a banner season for first-year stars, who earned 11.4% of all minutes leaguewide and produced a handful of the WNBA’s top players — on top of immediately providing arguably the league’s two most popular players, Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky.
How better to conclude the race for the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year than to compile one last ranking for 2024’s debut crop?
As always, this list is purely based on advanced statistical measures of player value, taking a cross-section of popular metrics to provide a consensus estimate of how many wins each rookie added to their teams. The metrics being blended are Basketball-Reference’s Win Shares (WS); Estimated Wins Added from Player Efficiency Rating (PER); and wins generated via estimated RAPTOR, a…
