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

[1] 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.