Ranking 2024 WNBA rookies - Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, more - ESPN

A lot can happen over the course of a month in the WNBA.

Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese has gone on a historic double-double streak. The Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark became the WNBA's first rookie to record a triple-double. And Cameron Brink, who was No. 1 the last time we ranked the WNBA rookies, was lost for the season to a torn ACL after only 15 games.

With so many shakeups, our updated rookie rankings reflect a much larger sample. As a refresher on our process, each 2024 rookie is rated based on how many wins each has added so far this season, using a consensus of three different advanced value metrics: Basketball-Reference's Win Shares, Estimated Wins Added from Player Efficiency Rating (PER) and wins generated via Estimated RAPTOR, a plus/minus-style stat that accounts for both a player's individual production and her effect on her team's net rating during a game. The RAPTOR metric is a new addition to these rankings, and it's a big improvement because it includes a player's stats and the effect of those stats on the game.

Each estimate of wins created is then averaged into a single metric, called Consensus Wins, which can then be used to rank every qualified rookie. Last time, we ranked off of per-minute production because teams had played wildly disparate numbers of games; now we can simply rank off of total wins added, as each team has played between 21 and 23 games — which also marks the halfway mark of the WNBA's 40-game season.

We're still judging each rookie's rate metrics on a percentile scale (0-100) relative to all WNBA players this season — in scoring (based on points per 100 possessions), true shooting percentage, passing (based on assist rate), rebounding rate and defensive impact (based on both