WNBA Playoff Standings Update

Darnell Sallins

August 19, 2025

The WNBA season is down to the final month of the regular season (10-12 games to go). The playoff race to close-knit and a lot needs to be determined before September 14. The Minnesota Lynx are clearly dominating the league, holding a 6.5 game lead for top seed.

Although the Dallas Wings, Chicago Sky, and Connecticut Sun aren't mathematically eliminated from postseason contention, it would take a miracle for anyone of those teams to make the playoffs.

Now this leaves nine teams battling for two to eight seeds. The Atlanta Dream, New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury and the Las Vegas aces are battling for homecourt for seeds two to four. Currently, the Atlanta Dream hold the two-seed with a full game heading of the defending champions, New York Liberty, currently third in the standings. The Phoenix Mercury and Las Vegas Aces are currently half of game behind the Liberty with the Mercury fourth and the Aces fifth in the standings.

There are four teams battling for the seventh and eighth spots: Golden State Valkyries, Seattle Storm, Los Angeles Sparks, and the Washington Mystics. The expansion team, Valkyries, has been anything but typical. Currently in the seventh spot, they have proven to be a formidable team despite being new.

The Seattle Storm has been in free-fall since the start of the second half of the season. The Storm are 2-8 in their last ten games and find themselves battling to make the playoffs.

The Los Angeles Sparks and Washington Mystics are currently on the outside looking in as the ninth and tenth seeds, respectively, and are a half of game behind the Storm.

That leaves the Indiana Fever. The Commissioner's Cup winners are in the sixth position but are in a peculiar position. The Fever are two games behind the Mercury and Aces competing for homecourt in the first round and are two and a half of games ahead of the Sparks and Mystics competing to make the playoffs. Indiana's biggest concern is injuries. They have been without star Caitlin Clark for the entire second half thus far. They lost Sydney Colson and Arai McDonald to season-ending injuries. In their last game against the Connecticut Sun, Sophie Cunningham went down with a right knee injury. The Fever are in limbo because their season can go or down with the number of injures pling up.