When is the best time to start assessing how a season is going? It seems, as a sports community, we have never found a consensus when it’s appropriate to discuss awards or the validity of a team’s performance in terms of projecting forward.
Like everyone else, I don’t have a definitive answer. But the math can get us close.
If we take the 40 games in the WNBA season and divide it evenly into quarters, we are fast approaching the first leg which gives us our earliest substantial sample to work off of.
I think checking in on quarterly progress is fair.