League Stats

WHO QUALIFIES

the league's own rule, not one of ours · a per-game board needs 70% of team games played (31 in a 44-game season), or the league's totals floor for the category: 525 points · 250 rebounds · 150 assists · 55 steals · 40 blocks · 825 minutes · rookie boards use 50% of that standard, which is also the league's rule · the share is measured against games played so far, so an August board means what a September board will mean · stats.wnba.com/help/statminimums

TOTALS ARE EVERYONE

a total is a total · nobody's season scoring is distorted by having played half a season, so the TOTAL side of every board is unfiltered and the toggle is also a toggle between qualified and everyone

ONE BOARD COUNTS GAMES ONLY

the league publishes no totals minimum for made threes · rather than invent a threshold, that board qualifies on games played or not at all

A PERCENTAGE NEEDS MAKES

a percentage qualifies on the league's floor of makes, not on games played, because that is how the league ranks a rate: 100 field goals for field-goal percentage · 50 free throws for free-throw percentage · 25 threes for three-point percentage · true shooting is not a league category, so it borrows the field-goal floor of 100 makes, being the same kind of number · true shooting is points divided by twice the shots taken, with a trip to the line counted as 0.44 of a shot, so twos, threes and free throws sit on one scale

ONE ROW IS ONE SEASON

a player traded mid-season appears once, with her whole season, under the team she played for most recently · counting her twice would compute her rates on two half-seasons, neither of which happened, and would hide her from a games-played qualifier she clears

WHICH GAMES COUNT

regular season only · the All-Star Game and the Commissioner's Cup final are dropped, the Cup's group games are kept because the league counts them, and a game that hasn't been played isn't counted

ON RECORD

season and career totals reach back to 2003, and for every completed season they are the league's official figures via Basketball-Reference, credited · single games — streaks, best nights, records — reach back to 2009, where whole game logs begin · this season is ESPN's box scores, checked against Basketball-Reference and pbpstats: Basketball-Reference (2026-10-18): 230 of the 237 players it has for the same games match on every count, and no total is more than 3 points off · pbpstats (2026-10-30): 229 of the 238 players it has for the same games match on every count, and no total is more than 2 points off · a per-game season ranks against history only after 20 games · pipeline/AUDIT.md has the whole table

TIES

the league's ladder, in order: head-to-head record · then record against teams at .500 or better · then head-to-head point differential · then overall point differential · anything still level is ordered alphabetically, which is arbitrary and says so

PER 100 POSSESSIONS

a possession is one turn with the ball, and the box score doesn't count them, so they are estimated with Basketball-Reference's formula: shots + turnovers + 0.4 × free throws − the misses the offense rebounded, averaged over the two teams in each game · checked against Basketball-Reference's 2026 team ratings on Oct 3, 2026: all fifteen within a tenth of a point · the league counts possessions a little differently, so its ratings can sit a point or so from these

WHERE IT COMES FROM

ESPN box scores and play-by-play via wehoop, refreshed daily · records and games back are computed from game results rather than read from a standings table, so they can't disagree with the games counted everywhere else

CREDITS

Box scores: ESPN, via wehoop · Checked against: Basketball-Reference · Checked against: pbpstats · Portraits and crests: the WNBA

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