Caitlin Clark's surprising placement in new WNBA stat sparks major debate

The WNBA’s Gravity metric, introduced this week to quantify how much defensive attention a player draws, placed Caitlin Clark outside the top five, fueling immediate debate. Clark’s Gravity score sits at 3.9, reportedly tying her for 19th in the league, while Kelsey Mitchell checks in at 5.9 (ninth) and Sophie Cunningham at 4.8 (sixteenth). Gravity uses AWS-powered tracking data to measure how defenses react to a player’s positioning and spacing. The result underscores Clark’s status as one of the league’s most heavily defended players, even as the metric reorders perceptions of defensive pressure around her.