[1] Following the WNBA regular season, eight teams in the entire league qualified for the playoffs and were seeded one to eight.

Regular season records determined the seedings of the teams.

These seedings were used to create a bracket that determines the match-ups throughout the playoffs.

The first two rounds are single elimination games played on the higher ranking seed's home court.

The semifinals and WNBA Finals are best-of-five series played in a 2-2-1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage (better record) hosts games 1, 2, and 5 while their opponent hosts games 3 and 4.