{"id":622514,"date":"2026-04-23T04:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622514\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:01:21","slug":"%f0%9f%8f%80-2026-wnba-elo-team-power-rankings-and-player-rankings-%f0%9f%93%88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622514\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfc0 2026 WNBA Elo Team Power Rankings and Player Rankings \ud83d\udcc8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1sS-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb2f8cc1-1bf9-48d9-9c07-5ac38ab1c7d4_1140x235.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/bb2f8cc1-1bf9-48d9-9c07-5ac38ab1c7d4_1140.png\" width=\"1140\" height=\"235\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/bb2f8cc1-1bf9-48d9-9c07-5ac38ab1c7d4_1140x235.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:235,&quot;width&quot;:1140,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:27590,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This page contains a list of WNBA teams with their <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/methodology\/how-our-wnba-predictions-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elo ratings<\/a> for the 2026 season. (Note: This is basic Elo, so no adjustments for trades, injuries, etc. for the moment.) I also list the win probabilities generated by those ratings, plus a WNBA player ranking that ports over my <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/p\/2025-26-nba-elo-forecast-and-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAKER ratings<\/a> from the NBA \u2014 here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Neil-Paine-1\/NBA-elo\/tree\/main\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full explainer<\/a> of how those work.<\/p>\n<p>For last year\u2019s landing page, <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/p\/2025-wnba-elo-team-power-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2728Coming Soon!\u2728<\/p>\n<p>Similar to in the <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/i\/150270605\/historical-nba-data-spreadsheet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/i\/149783329\/historical-nhl-data-spreadsheet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/p\/2025-mlb-elo-power-ratings-playoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/p\/2025-nfl-power-ratings-and-projections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a>, this season paid subscribers will have access to a constantly updating spreadsheet of LAKER and a variety of other advanced player metrics, plus historical team metrics and seasonal team Elo rating summaries for all of WNBA history.<\/p>\n<p>The link for the folder is below the paywall:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page contains a list of WNBA teams with their Elo ratings for the 2026 season. (Note: This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-622514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}