Longevity and consistency are sometimes checked out when evaluating the all-time greats and rightfully so. However right here’s a have a look at the WNBA gamers with the most effective confirmed capabilities when it comes to placing up gaudy stats even when they solely did it as soon as.
To get every participant’s “monster stat” rating we added collectively their single-season career-best averages for every of the 5 main classes (factors, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks). It didn’t matter if the profession bests for various classes occurred in several seasons. Help averages had been multiplied by 1.5 earlier than being added to the overall. There was a requirement of not less than 10 video games performed within the season during which a career-best was counted.
We additionally included the ages of every participant to offer you an thought of which of them might be poised to enhance on their rating with a monster 2021.
1) Candace Parker
Chicago Sky
Monster stat rating: 44.four
Age: 35
Parker averaged 6.three assists over 16 video games in 2015. That’s what put her excessive on this record. All the time recognized for her versatility, the two-time MVP has additionally averaged over 10 rebounds twice and over 20 factors as soon as.
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2) Diana Taurasi
Phoenix Mercury
Monster stat rating: 43.1
Age: 38
Taurasi’s 25.three factors per recreation in 2006 nonetheless stands as the most effective single-season scoring common in WNBA historical past. She can also be a superb distributor with a career-best of 6.2 assists per recreation (2013). Regardless of being a guard her first rate profession highs of 5.7 rebounds per recreation (2009) and 1.four blocks per recreation (twice) raised her rating even greater.
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three) Tina Charles
Washington Mystics
Monster stat rating: 42
Age: 32
Charles’ scoring and rebounding numbers clearly put her excessive on this record. She additionally notched three.eight assists per recreation (1.1 greater than her second-best effort) in 2016 and had 1.eight blocks per recreation in 2011.
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four) Maya Moore
Minnesota Lynx
Monster stat rating: 41.2
Age: 31
Standing: sitting out season
No phrase of retirement but for probably the most versatile scorers to ever play the sport. Moore can fill out the remainder of the stat sheet, too, averaging profession bests of eight.1 rebounds (2014), four.2 assists (2016) and 1.9 steals (twice).
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5) Breanna Stewart
Seattle Storm
Monster stat rating: 40.1
Age: 26
Although not the reigning WNBA MVP, Stewart is in the course of her prime and is the most effective participant on the earth. Can she climb this record in 2021 with a scoring common higher than her career-best of 21.eight (2018)?
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6) Liz Cambage
Las Vegas Aces
Monster stat rating: 39.four
Age: 29
Cambage is the queen of short-term monster stats, having as soon as scored a WNBA-record 53 factors in a recreation. Throughout that 2018 season she averaged 23 factors per recreation. Her career-bests of 9.7 rebounds per recreation (2018) and a pair of.four blocks per recreation (2013) additionally helped her out.
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7) Brittney Griner
Phoenix Mercury
Monster stat rating: 39.2
Age: 30
Griner has zero MVP awards in comparison with draft mate Elena Delle Donne’s two, however seems forward of the latter on this record. Her posting a ridiculous 4 blocks per recreation in 2015 is a giant motive why.
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eight) Sylvia Fowles
Minnesota Lynx
Monster stat rating: 39.2
Age: 35
One other scoring and rebounding star like Tina Charles, Fowles additionally averaged 2.6 blocks per recreation in 2010. Her 11.9 rebounds per recreation in 2018 is the WNBA’s single-season document.
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9) Elena Delle Donne
Washington Mystics
Monster stat rating: 38.four
Age: 31
Extensively thought-about to be up there with Breanna Stewart as top-of-the-line gamers on the earth, Delle Donne’s rebounding numbers, like Brittney Griner’s, aren’t up there with Sylvia Fowles and Tina Charles. She’s additionally by no means averaged greater than 2.three assists per recreation. That is why she’s not as excessive on this record as you may need anticipated her to be, however her 23.four factors per recreation in 2015 nonetheless acquired her into the High 10.
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10) Angel McCoughtry
Las Vegas Aces
Monster stat rating: 38
Age: 34
McCoughtry’s greatest days could also be behind her, however she’s clearly top-of-the-line scorers of her era. She additionally averaged 2.7 steals per recreation in 2013.
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