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[Genero36]

WNBA preseason favorite: Washington Mystics are the 2019 front-runner

[J-Spoon]

1. Was
2. LA
3. Conn
4. LV
5. PX
6. Minn
7. Atl
8. Sea
9. Dallas
10. Chi
11. Indy
12. NY

just for fun
1. NY Ionescu
2. Indy Cox
3. Chi Mompremier
4. Dallas Hebard
5. Sea Dangerfield
6. Atl Charles
7. Minn Bella Alarie
8. PX Holmes
9. Dallas (from LV) Martin
10. Conn Pivec
11. Conn (from LA) Laska
12. Was Harris

[adamj95]

Dang. seattle will drop even further with Bird likely out for the season with a knee injury.

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[Michelle89]

[5thmantheme]

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[Rock Hard]

I want a do over with my predictions. I didn't know the Sky would trade for JLav and Bird might miss the entire 2019 season.

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[GlennMacGrady]

1. PX
2. LV
3. Conn
4. LA
5. Was
6. Minn
7. Chi
8. Sea
9. Atl
10. Dallas
11. Indy
12. NY

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[SDHoops]

I have the Sun at #12.

[uconNection]

1. WAS: Big gap after Mystics already.
2. CON: Jonquel gets to play, maybe they can avoid Mercury in playoffs.
3. LAS: No bench, but still lot of high-end talent.
4. ATL: Need to find more scoring but like Collen in Yr 2.
5. PHO: Griner is very good, rest of Mercury is not (w/DT starting out).
6. LVA: Not my Title Favorites. Aja/Liz will try not to step on each other.
7. SEA: Still a lot good young pieces, but Stewart/Hughes are irreplaceable.
8. MIN: Sims should work out well. After Fowles, no clue here.
9. CHI: They should score, and benefit from improved coaching? Big upside?
10. DAL: They could be ok by year's end? Big struggle to start. Who is scoring?
11. IND: Shenise nice return. Got to play less Dupree/Kelsey. Laney nice grab.
12. NYL: Ugly after Tina. Need a jump from Nurse, for Durr to be good.

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[Shades]

I think he meant Bird.

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[adamj95]

1- Washington
2- Connecticut
3- Minnesota
4- Las Vegas
5- Los Angeles
6- Phoenix
7- Atlanta
8- Chicago
9- Seattle
10- Dallas
11- New York
12- Indiana

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[boom*NNEKA*nneka]

1- LA
2- WAS
3- PHX
4- LVA
5- CON
6- ATL
7- MIN
8- CHI
9- SEA
10 - DAL
11 - IND
12 - NYL

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[RI_Sun_Fan]

I guess I'll give it a go... Hard to figure this year with too many injury questions at the start of the season (Bird, Diana, Parker, Delle Donne, etc.)


1 - Mystics
2 - Sparks
3 - Sun
4 - Aces
5 - Dream
6 - Mercury
7 - Sky
8 - Storm
9 -Wings
10- Lynx
11- Fever
12- Liberty

[OldGoat]

It's nice to see so little consensus for the top two! Makes for a more interesting season.

WAS
PHX
LV
CON
ATL
LA
MIN
CHI
SEA
DAL
NY
IND

[Luuuc]

The results of the survey from the first post came out like this:


Of the 63 entries,
24 had Mystics as #1
16 had Aces #1
8 had Sparks #1
6 has Mercury #1
5 had Sun #1
3 entries were from impossible homers
1 prankster had Wings #1

35 entries had the Fever as #12
14 had Liberty as #12
10 had Wings
3 had Sky
1 had Mystics (so actually I'm thinking maybe one participant misunderstood the order)

Full results:


Although we've picked a clear bottom 4, it's probably slightly skewed because there were already quite a few entries in before the Sue Bird news was announced.

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[Admiral_Needa]

1- WAS
2- LV
3- LA
4- CON
5- PHX
6- ATL
7- CHI
8- MIN
9- SEA
10 - DAL
11 - NYL
12 - IND

About a month ago, I picked CON to win the Finals... then the Chiney trade happened and I switched to LA... then the Cambage trade happened, now I'm All In on Las Vegas... Party Time! Excellent!

But as for regular season records, I look at teams that have been consistently good who are returning the same roster with upgrades. This should mean that early in the season, they won't lose games while they're working on their chemistry.

WAS rates high because of that, and also has a relatively less difficult schedule than others.

LV has a very balanced starting 5 and are catching several of the likely playoff teams while they have star players injured.

With Parker injured, and a new coach, LA falls to 3rd due to the uncertainty of how they'll develop under their new coach.

CON is still high in my esteem, and PHX is lower due to the Taurasi injury.

ATL/CHI could go either way, I like them both, and then everybody else is in the same boat.

MIN tops the rest because of Fowles and Dan Hughes, who is known for figuring out how to do more with less, is not ready.

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[uconNection]

I think that ATL stands for Atlanta? No idea who put them there, but everything else seems ok at this point of the season.

[Stormeo]

Revisiting this cuz it's being talking about in the Lynx 2020 thread & the Lynx were one of the many teams I mis-predicted (amongst many others - guess I was on cr@ck when doing this, maybe I should just stick to draft predictions in the future)...

1. Las Vegas
2. Los Angeles
3. Connecticut
4. Minnesota
5. Washington
6. Phoenix
7. Atlanta
8. Dallas
9. Seattle
10. Indiana
11. Chicago
12. New York

I didn't get a single one right

[NYSports56]

I didn't post picks, but I too missed on the Sky. I thought that they'd probably miss on the playoffs. I was high on Washington and the Aces. Right now, I'm still high on Washington--if I had to pick a team of the ones left, they're the one.

[myrtle]

I wisely didn't make picks...so didn't embarrass myself.

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