{"id":1044,"date":"2026-05-21T20:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:36:31","slug":"wnba-faces-an-odd-statistic-home-teams-have-only-won-29-of-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"WNBA faces an odd statistic. Home teams have only won 29% of games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Playing at home hasn\u2019t provided much comfort for WNBA teams this season.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1042\">Cooler Friday with rain chances through Memorial Day weekend in central NC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through nearly the first two weeks, home teams have only won about 29% of games. Out of the 15 teams, only New York has a winning record at home.<\/p>\n<p>This is the worst percentage to start a season by home teams in the league\u2019s 30-year history, according to Elias Sports Bureau stats provided to The Associated Press by the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>Through an equivalent number of games, the previous worst was 41% in 2021 \u2014 when fans weren\u2019t allowed to attend games early on because of the COVID pandemic. Home teams won 43% of their games to start the 2016 season. Both those years the number reached over 50% by the end of the season. There was nearly a 54% home advantage in 2021 and 55% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of factors that go into the poor start at home so far, including scheduling. The expected top teams Las Vegas and New York have been on the road for most of the start of the season. That said, Chicago, which was near the bottom of the standings last year, went 3-1 on the road to begin this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s bizarre and interesting, but I don\u2019t think it signals a trend that will continue,\u201d ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo said. \u201cWe just need to have the better teams to have more home games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1040\">Katherine Legge is ready make historic attempt to try and complete racing\u2019s 1,100-mile \u2018double\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Golden State coach Natalie Nakase agreed she didn\u2019t think the early trend would continue.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI don\u2019t put much stock in it,\u201d said Nakase, who\u2019s team visits New York on Thursday night. \u201cI think it gives players that out to say that we have more advantage at home or we have more advantage away. I just say there\u2019s two hoops, there\u2019s a court, there\u2019s a couple refs, and we got to play. At the end of the day, when you step on the court, you got to be ready to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One thing it\u2019s not caused by is a lack of fans in the buildings. Attendance is up 6% so far this season compared to last year, according to the website Across The Timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The second-year Valkyries have established quite a homecourt advantage. They led the league in attendance last year and so far have drawn well in their first two games at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou also don\u2019t want to take it for granted, you know, and take advantage of it,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we do have the love of support that is, you know, amazing. But at the same time, you have to be able to handle the noise. So we try to prepare as best as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1038\">Eagles\u2019 Nolan Smith Jr. arrested for driving nearly double the speed limit in Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Playing at home hasn\u2019t provided much comfort for WNBA teams this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WNBA faces an odd statistic. 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