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wnba projections

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2026 season projections — 223 players, 15-team win totals, 5 rookie + 5 veteran archetypes. Ridge per stat with weighted prior. W_BOX_v1 ★ SHIP_CLEAN 5/5 gates.

sections
players teams advanced live boxes

release notes

release notes

v1.0: Methodology locked. Blurb shipped.

methodology writeups

WNBA built one batch at a time — impact metrics, player archetypes, aging curves, defensive measures — each one locked against pass/fail gates before any fitting. The Auto Value Index fuses the six that survived into a single 0–100 player score, weighted by how stable each input is.

model retrospectives

what we predicted vs. what happened. honest walk-backs included.


how the projections have held up
85%
of decisive World Cup group-stage matches projected correctly
29 of 34 · projections locked 4 days before kickoff · outperformed market consensus
RPS 0.171
World Cup ranked-probability score
tighter than the bookmaker-calibrated international band (0.20–0.22)
54%
hit rate on 165 NBA playoff calls
beat the closing market