Welcome to free agency, everybody — we’ve made it! Here at The Next, we’re ever-dedicated to both fun projects and creating original resources, so I am especially excited to bring you our second annual free agency predictions. This year, 15 of our reporters, analysts, and contributors each submitted their thoughts on how the 2023 WNBA free agent market would play out. We looked at recent markets, team cap sheets, and league trends to help set some expectations for impending offseason moves across the league, starting with restricted free agents.
Listed below are all the restricted free agents, sorted by total projected contract value. Their average contract projections and team predictions are visible. And where there were enough responses, a visual breakdown of our predictions can be seen by clicking “See more detail.” There you have a graph of our responses for contract length and a histogram to show the distribution of average annual values (AAV, i.e. salaries).
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