WNBA · Finalupdated 14:41 UTC

Phoenix Mercury vs Dallas Wings

at Dallas Wings

DAL expected to win by about 6.5 · both teams together expected to score about 169.5 points · odds to win: PHO 3.19, DAL 1.38

Game odds from Pinnacle (the bookmaker we use as the reference), Fri 01:06 UTC

PHO 70 – DAL 85

Final

We had no picks in this game; every posted line is still scored below.

Getting a better price than most bookmakers offer for the same line is the only thing on this page that, measured over many past bets, made money; player rates are context, not tips.

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How to read this page

A pick is a player line, for example Under 13.5 points, that we published before the game together with the price we found for it. We do not take bets.
Odds are shown in the decimal format: 1.93 means you get back 1.93 for every 1 staked, so a higher number pays more. The American format (−108 means risk 108 to win 100; +111 means risk 100 to win 111) appears only in the Data log at the bottom of the page.
'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; 'better' is a higher price for the same line at another bookmaker. Taking the better price is the one thing on this page that, measured over many past bets, made money.
'Market puts Under at 48.5%' is the chance implied by all bookmakers' prices together, with their built-in margin removed. Pinnacle is a bookmaker whose prices are widely treated as the most accurate reference, so it is the one we compare against.
A player's rate is how often that player has gone over the line this season, for example over in 41 of 78 games (52.6%), with a likely range such as 32–52%: fewer games means a wider range, and under 10 games we show no rate word at all.
'Past record stronger than the price' means the whole likely range sits above the chance the bookmakers' price implies; 'weaker' means below; 'agrees with the price' means the price sits inside the range, which is the usual case. None of these is a tip.
'Not measurable' is the usual honest answer: too few games to tell a real difference from chance.
'What could go wrong' lists the facts that can change a line: who is out, whether the starting lineup is confirmed, expected playing time (RotoWire's estimate, typically off by about 4 minutes), rest, and how many bookmakers price each line.
After the final, every pick is checked against the official stats and compared with the last price before the game started, the market's most informed price; getting a better price than that is the fairest test of a pick, whether or not it won. A tie means the player landed exactly on the line and the stake is returned; lines ending in .5 cannot tie.
Results are given for every 1 staked: 'would have returned +0.93' means a stake of 1 would have come back with 0.93 in profit. We do not stake anything; the record is what a stake of 1 on each pick would have done. Our record counts a smaller stake when the price advantage was small.
S beside a name marks an expected starter. Times are shown in your device's time zone; our data is recorded in US Eastern Time (ET). Team codes are the league's three-letter abbreviations.
'Your prediction' lets you pick Over or Under on any line before the game starts; we check your predictions the same way and keep your record, and one game of results proves nothing.
Team codes on this page: PHO = Phoenix Mercury, DAL = Dallas Wings.

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Picks and prices

Odds of at least 1.70 only · highest odds first · results checked

A line is the number a bookmaker sets, e.g. 13.5 points; Over means more than it, Under fewer. Odds 1.93 pay 1.93 for every 1 staked. 'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; after the game it is compared with the last price before the start.

Picks for this game are not posted yet. The players below are up to date.

Why the better price matters

In our past tests, simply taking the highest price offered for a line earned more than any of our own forecasts did.

In that test (25 Aug 2026), taking the best price returned about 2.8 more for every 100 staked than the price we posted did.

The players

9 players checked · 6 whose past record points the other way from the bookmakers' price · 0 out · 0 with too few games

Rate: the share of this season's games in which the player finished above tonight's line. S beside a name marks an expected starter.

Against this opponent, 1 of 8 players has performed clearly differently and 3 show a slight hint · No starting lineup yet; showing every player with a line

Context only A player's rate describes the past; it is not a tip and has not been tested as one. Expected minutes come from RotoWire, a lineup news service.

Sign in to see each player's rate The numbers below (for example 15.5 points) are the lines the bookmakers actually posted.

Phoenix Mercuryplaying DAL

Alyssa Thomas · minutes unknown

points 15.5 → 6 actual

Kahleah Copper · minutes unknown

points 17.5 → 13 actual

Natasha Mack · minutes unknown

points 9.5 → 8 actual

Dallas Wingsplaying PHO

Arike Ogunbowale · minutes unknown

points 15.5 → 2 actual

Aziaha James · minutes unknown

points 6.5 → 7 actual

Azzi Fudd · minutes unknown

points 13.5 → 17 actual

Jessica Shepard · minutes unknown

points 11.5 → 17 actual

Maddy Siegrist · minutes unknown

points 8.5 → 0 actual

Paige Bueckers · minutes unknown

points 18.5 → 31 actual

Original forecast · corrected actuals

What did we expect, and what happened?

This reads the saved pre-tip model. Today’s rosters, injuries and model changes do not rewrite it.

Reading the immutable pre-tip record…

What could go wrong

updated 14:41 UTC

Who is out

Sims · earlier listed as may not play, now available (changed Sat 16:00 UTC) · 12, 11 and 15 min in the last 3 games

Whitcomb · earlier listed as likely to play, now available (changed Thu 00:00 UTC) · 19, 15 and 25 min in the last 3 games

Lineups

Expected starting lineup, not yet confirmed

Playing time

No playing-time estimates yet.

Our check: these minute estimates (RotoWire) are typically off by about 4 minutes.

Rest

PHO had 52 days off before this game · DAL had 44 days off before this game.

Bookmakers

The reference bookmaker, Pinnacle, offers 15 of the 119 lines; the rest rely on other bookmakers.

Every pick is priced by at least 2 bookmakers.

Looking back

Flagged before the game: Sims out (Sat 16:00 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Whitcomb out (Thu 00:00 UTC) · played

When a player is out, that player's lines are removed: in our past results this helped. Guessing which teammates benefit was also tested and lost money, so nothing else on this page is adjusted for it.

What happened

In 3 of 6 cases where a player's past record disagreed with the bookmakers' price, the past record was right in this game. One game proves nothing.

FinalWe had no picks in this game · every posted line is still scored below

9 other players with a posted line

Maddy Siegrist · points 8.5 → 0 · 8.5 below the line · played 14 min · no final price

Arike Ogunbowale · points 15.5 → 2 · 13.5 below the line · played 29.1 min · no final price

Paige Bueckers · points 18.5 → 31 · 12.5 above the line · played 32.2 min · Pinnacle odds: Over 1.83, Under 1.92

Alyssa Thomas · points 15.5 → 6 · 9.5 below the line · played 32 min · no final price

Jessica Shepard · points 11.5 → 17 · 5.5 above the line · played 32.1 min · no final price

Azzi Fudd · points 13.5 → 17 · 3.5 above the line · played 34.3 min · no final price

Kahleah Copper · points 17.5 → 13 · 4.5 below the line · played 28.9 min · no final price

Natasha Mack · points 9.5 → 8 · 1.5 below the line · played 21.7 min · no final price

Aziaha James · points 6.5 → 7 · 0.5 above the line · played 16.9 min · no final price

Each prediction is recorded as if you had staked 1 at the line you saw, and your record is shown here. One game tells you nothing yet.

More context

Head to head

DAL vs PHO · last 19 games · DAL leads · DAL record 11–8 · average score 86.5–85.5 · DAL has won by 0.9 on average

Team results are background only; they say nothing about any single player's line.

21 Sep · DAL 86 at PHO 87DAL lost

19 Sep · PHO 82 at DAL 87DAL won

11 Jun · PHO 70 at DAL 85DAL won

11 Sep · PHO 76 at DAL 97DAL won

What each defense gives up per game

PHO gives up87.6 points · 34.0 rebounds · 21.5 assists · 9.7 three-pointers scored against them · opponents make 46.4% of shots · 36.1% from three-point range · 12.9 opponent turnovers

DAL gives up85.8 points · 33.4 rebounds · 19.9 assists · 8.4 three-pointers scored against them · opponents make 44.7% of shots · 33.9% from three-point range · 11.6 opponent turnovers

Defense by position

How much this is worth

Defense-by-position numbers are mostly random from season to season; shown for context only. We tested it: a team's defense-by-position numbers from one half of the season do not predict the other half, so treat them as noise.

PHO gives up 87.6 points a game · 8th of 15 · league average 87.0about league average

DAL gives up 85.8 points a game · 5th of 15 · league average 87.0about league average

How the game odds moved

Pinnacle first had DAL expected to win by 6, expected total 170 (Thu 01:12 UTC) and later DAL expected to win by 6.5, expected total 169.5 (Fri 01:06 UTC).

The odds at the top of the page are the latest we have, from every bookmaker on file; this is one bookmaker's own history.

Data log (technical)

Technical detail for auditing; the plain version is above. Internal ids and formula names print here only.

Line-shopping measurement: project_conditional_minutes_refuted

Defense-by-position measurement: split-half reliability r = -0.033 across 12 cells (7 of 12 negative) against a shuffle null of 0.000; a placebo using the wrong position family reproduced the effect to within 0.12pp · project_dvp_blowout_gate_refuted · 2026-08-26

Our picks, raw · 0

No raw pick rows for this game.

Checked results, raw (basketball-stats shorthand) · 0

No graded rows for this game.

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