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Phoenix Mercury

Season: 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Also known as: Phoenix Mercury
Program History

2021 Team Stats (86 games)

81.8
PPG
80.2
Opp
+3.8
Margin
44.3%
FG%
34.3%
3P%
82.7%
FT%
34.1
RPG
19.3
APG
12.7
TO
86.9
Pace

Model Outputs

2021
Catalog

Output is shown as model rating with league rank in parentheses when available.

Model Output Notes
Bradley-Terry Bradley-Terry Static logistic paired-comparison model with one team strength parameter. More → 961 (#8) -
Margin Margin Linear team-strength model fit on point differential instead of binary wins. HCA +2.0 More → +8.3 (#9) HCA +2.0
Pythagorean Pythagorean Pythagorean win expectation from raw points scored and allowed. More → 0.468 (#10) -

2021 Schedule & Results

Date Vs/At Opponent Result Score
2021-06-03 vs Chicago Sky W 77 - 74
2021-06-08 vs Dallas Wings L 81 - 85
2021-06-11 vs Dallas Wings L 59 - 77
2021-06-13 vs New York Liberty L 83 - 85
2021-06-16 @ Los Angeles Sparks L 80 - 85
2021-06-18 @ Los Angeles Sparks W 80 - 66
2021-06-27 vs Los Angeles Sparks W 88 - 79
2021-06-30 vs Minnesota Lynx L 76 - 82
2021-07-03 vs Minnesota Lynx L 68 - 99
2021-07-07 @ Las Vegas Aces W 99 - 90
2021-07-09 vs Seattle Storm W 85 - 77
2021-07-11 @ Seattle Storm L 75 - 82
2021-08-15 vs Atlanta Dream W 92 - 81
2021-08-17 vs Indiana Fever W 84 - 80
2021-08-19 vs Washington Mystics W 77 - 64
2021-08-21 @ Atlanta Dream W 84 - 69
2021-08-25 @ New York Liberty W 106 - 79
2021-08-27 @ New York Liberty W 80 - 64
2021-08-31 vs Chicago Sky W 103 - 83
2021-09-04 @ Indiana Fever W 87 - 65
2021-09-06 @ Indiana Fever W 86 - 81
2021-09-08 @ Atlanta Dream W 76 - 75
2021-09-11 vs Connecticut Sun L 67 - 76
2021-09-17 @ Seattle Storm L 85 - 94
2021-09-19 vs Las Vegas Aces L 83 - 84
2021-09-23 vs New York Liberty W 83 - 82
2021-09-26 @ Seattle Storm W 85 - 80
2021-09-28 @ Las Vegas Aces L 90 - 96
2021-09-30 @ Las Vegas Aces W 117 - 91

2021 Roster

Minutes by Position

The surface stays filled across the five on-court roles. Use the labels or legend to isolate how each player absorbs guard-to-big minutes.

Player Pos GP MIN PTS REB AST STL BLK TO FGA Numbers PM PM/G PM/40 FG% 3P% FT% RAPM TS% eFG%
B. Griner B. Griner C 27 33.1 21.6 9.6 3.2 0.4 1.8 2.3 14.7 19.6 - - - 59.2 44.4 83.2 - 64.1 59.7
Skylar Diggins-Smith Skylar Diggins-Smith G 29 32.7 17.5 3.2 5.1 1.1 0.9 2.3 12.5 12.9 - - - 45.3 37.4 80.4 1.2 58.6 52.1
D. Taurasi D. Taurasi G 15 28.9 16.7 4.8 5.1 0.3 0.4 3.0 12.5 11.7 - - - 37.8 35.9 88.6 0.48 57.4 50.3
Kia Nurse Kia Nurse G 29 25.8 9.2 3.6 1.8 0.4 0.1 1.2 8.2 5.8 - - - 35.9 34.5 87.3 - 51.3 46.4
B. Turner B. Turner F 29 31.6 8.2 9.6 1.9 0.8 1.1 1.4 6.3 13.8 - - - 55.5 0.0 68.6 - 58.0 55.5
Sophie Cunningham Sophie Cunningham G 28 18.2 6.3 2.1 1.1 0.4 0.4 0.5 4.8 4.9 - - - 44.8 45.1 74.1 0.18 60.7 58.6
Shey Peddy Shey Peddy G 29 18.3 5.3 2.3 2.2 1.1 0.1 0.9 5.0 5.2 - - - 36.6 30.1 92.3 0.7 49.5 45.2
Kia Vaughn Kia Vaughn C 29 15.1 4.3 2.5 1.2 0.2 0.2 1.2 4.7 2.7 - - - 41.5 0.0 70.0 0.88 43.8 41.5
Megan Walker Megan Walker F 24 13.2 3.7 1.3 0.8 0.1 0.2 0.7 4.5 1.0 - - - 28.0 28.6 63.2 - 38.1 35.5
B. Hartley B. Hartley G 9 6.8 2.7 0.8 0.7 0.1 0.0 0.7 2.2 1.3 - - - 50.0 44.4 0 - 60.0 60.0
Alyssa Smith Alyssa Smith F 13 5.9 1.5 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.4 1.6 1.5 - - - 38.1 23.1 0.0 - 43.4 45.2
H. Gorecki H. Gorecki - 2 1.5 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 - - - 0.0 0.0 0 - 0.0 0.0

Numbers/Game vs RAPM

X-axis = Numbers/Game (PTS+REB+AST+STL+BLK-TO-FGA), Y-axis = RAPM.

Advanced: Numbers = PTS+REB+AST+STL+BLK-TO-FGA, PM = total +/-, PM/G = per game, PM/40 = per 40 minutes, RAPM = Regularized Adj Plus-Minus, TS% = True Shooting, eFG% = Effective FG