New York Liberty at Chicago Sky at 8 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Phoenix Mercury at Dallas Wings at 8 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Golden State Valkyries at Minnesota Lynx at 8 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Las Vegas Aces at Los Angeles Sparks at 10 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
For playoff seeding, tiebreakers are likely to come into play. Head-to-head records serve as the first tiebreaker, while conference winning percentage will be considered next.<\/p>\n
Teams are seeded exclusively by record and relevant tiebreakers, not by conference. <\/p>\n
Once the tournament gets underway, the opening round will consist of best-of-three series with the top four seeds holding the home-court advantage. The higher seeds will now see a home, away, home schedule, which is a departure from the previous home, home, away setup. <\/p>\n
“The new 1-1-1 structure for the First Round of the WNBA Playoffs presented by Google will guarantee a home game for both teams in a series, which was a priority based on discussions with the WNBA’s team presidents, head coaches, general managers and the Competition Committee,” WNBA Head of League Operations. Bethany Donaphin said in a statement<\/a> last October when changes to the playoff format were first announced. <\/p>\n The semifinal round will include best-of-five series, while the WNBA Finals will, for the first time, feature a best-of-seven series. The series will follow a 2-2-1-1-1 format that mirrors that of the NBA Finals. <\/p>\n The opening round is set to begin on Sunday, September 14. The Finals will conclude on Sunday, October 19 at the latest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Liberty at Chicago Sky at 8 p.m. ET Phoenix Mercury at Dallas Wings at 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-136119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}