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Stephanie Talbot

SF · 6′2″ · Current team: Las Vegas Aces

Regular season · Aug 5, 2025 · DAL 76 @ NYL 85 · Final

Stephanie Talbot 13 points vs Wings (Aug 5, 2025): season-best Game Score

ANSWER

13 PTS · 4-of-6 FG · 3-of-4 3P · 2-of-2 FT · 23:42 MIN

Usual before this game: 3.3 PTS · 3.3 FGA · 15.9 MIN, from 23 regular-season games

Best Game Score of 24 games this season: 13.3 against a usual 3.0 (+10.3)

Matched the season high of 13 points, set on Jun 25, 2025

SURPRISE SCORE
96Unusual
above usual

No more than 4 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far above their usual.

For a player who plays every game, a game this far above the usual comes about once or twice a season.

How the score works

Why did Stephanie Talbot score 13 points?

In 23:42 against the Wings on Aug 5, 2025, Stephanie Talbot scored 13 points: 4-of-6 from the field, 3-of-4 from three, 2-of-2 on free throws. Coming in, Talbot had averaged 3.3 points on 3.3 shots in 15.9 minutes, from 23 regular-season games. The 13 points tied the season high, set on Jun 25, 2025. By Game Score it was the best of 24 games this season. Points by shot type, against the usual: threes 9 (1.3), free throws 2 (0.5). Talbot played 23:42 against a usual 15.9 minutes; per 36 minutes the Game Score was 20.2, against a usual 6.7. At home against the Wings, the Liberty won 85-76. The box score records what changed, not why: it holds no injury, matchup or coaching information.

Generated from the box score and this season's game log. How the score works

01

What changed

Talbot in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (23 games)Change
Minutes23:4215.9+7.8
Points133.3+9.7
Shots (FGA) · FG%4-of-63.3 · 36.4%+2.7
3PA · 3P%3-of-41.8 · 23.8%+2.2
FTA · FT%2-of-20.8 · 57.9%+1.2
Rebounds33.3-0.3
Assists22.00.0
Turnovers01.3-1.3
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 21 games14.814.7+0.1
Game Score per 36 minutes20.26.7+13.5
02

Points by shot type

Twos, threes and free throws: the changes add up to the points change

Points by shot type against the usual line
Shot typeThis gameUsual (23 games)Change
Threes9 (3-of-4)1.3 (0.4-of-1.8)+7.7
Twos2 (1-of-2)1.5 (0.8-of-1.5)+0.5
Free throws2 (2-of-2)0.5 (0.5-of-0.8)+1.5
Total133.3+9.7
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

13.3 against a usual 3.0 (+10.3)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+9.0
Rebounds-0.4
Assists0.0
Steals and blocks+0.2
Turnovers and fouls+1.5
Total+10.3
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 24 games, oldest first, this game last: -1.1, 2.2, -0.2, 5.4, -0.9, -0.1, 0, 4.6, 0.5, 1.8, 9.4, 11.7, -0.2, 3.9, 9.6, 1.3, -1.3, -0.8, -1, 13.2, 2.7, 4.9, 2.7, 13.3

Best Game Score of 24 games this season.

Previous best: 13.2, set on Jul 28, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Liberty won 85-76 at home against the Wings.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Wings this season: 0 points (Jun 17, 2025), 10 points (Jul 28, 2025).
06

What this page cannot tell you

The same on every performance page

Limits

Box scores record what happened, not why: no injuries or health, defensive assignments, matchups, coaching decisions or play-by-play.

METHOD

Game Score against the player's own usual line. How rare a gap is comes from WNBA regular-season games of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, checked on 2026.