Playoff odds

Who's making a run at the title.

We play out the rest of the 2026 season — every remaining game, then the full bracket — 50,000 times over, and count how often each team lands in the playoffs, reaches the Finals, and wins it all. Probabilities, not predictions.

MIN Title favorite 47% to win it all
225 Games left in the regular season
50k Simulations season + bracket, each run

The odds, team by team

Each column is a team's chance to reach that round. Sorted by title odds; the dashed line marks the 8-team playoff cut. As of June 17, 2026.

#TeamRecPlayoffsSemisFinalsTitle
1Minnesota Lynx11-3100%81%61%47%
2Atlanta Dream9-4100%64%35%16%
3Las Vegas Aces10-4100%61%31%13%
4Golden State Valkyries9-598%50%21%8%
5New York Liberty10-499%48%20%7%
6Indiana Fever8-592%37%14%4%
7Dallas Wings9-595%35%12%3%
8Toronto Tempo7-740%9%2%
9Los Angeles Sparks7-738%8%2%
10Phoenix Mercury4-1118%4%1%
11Washington Mystics5-711%2%
12Portland Fire7-98%1%
13Chicago Sky4-92%
14Seattle Storm3-12
15Connecticut Sun2-13

If the playoffs started today

Seeds 1–8 by current record (ties broken by net rating). Each first-round matchup shows the higher seed's chance to win the best-of-three series. Later rounds depend on who advances.

Round 1 · best-of-3
1 MIN 84%
8 TOR 16%
4 ATL 58%
5 GS 42%
2 LV 61%
7 IND 39%
3 NY 60%
6 DAL 40%
Semifinals · best-of-5
Winners advance
Winners advance
Finals · best-of-7
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The model freezes each team's strength at today — it doesn't forecast future injuries, trades, or rest. Read it as "if the season played out from here at current form." Seeding ties use net rating as a v1 stand-in for the league's full tiebreaker order. These are model probabilities, not predictions.

2026 season · 225 games remaining · updated June 17, 2026