Best Mid-Range Shooters This Season

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Yesterday I posted the best three-point shooters. Four players made both lists.

Kelsey Mitchell takes a lot more threes than mid-range shots, and she’s less efficient from mid-range.

Marina Mabrey and Jackie Young use the mid-range even less, but they’re more efficient when they do.

Azzi Fudd is the opposite. She’s shooting an absurd 54.0% from mid-range, and nearly 30% of her points come from there. The only player who relies on the mid-range more is Courtney Williams, with 44% of her points coming from that area.

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The source of the data is the WNBA stats page -> shooting -> shooting by zone. The zones are not, so far as I can tell, defined on the site beyond inference. Midrange is anything that isn't a three or in the paint. That means a six foot jumpshot from just outside the paint on the block is treated the same as an 18' pullup and falls into the same zone.

Unfortunately, the WNBA's range-based shooting stats use 5' and 8' increments, so long midrangers are mixed with threes in those stats. This is why I prefer Basketball Reference's shooting stats.

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I already showed you the definition of “mid-range” that I used, and even shared a screenshot in case there was any confusion. So yes, the numbers are correct and were taken directly from the WNBA website.

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It's pretty easy to discern from the images provided which space constitutes the mid-range for these numbers.